Governments, industry and those funding research, innovation and consumer marketing must actively move away from a maize ...

The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize ...

An international group of scholars has recently discovered and proved that one civilization in the Amazon successfully developed an advanced agricultural system that allowed them to plant maize crops ...

This model of agriculture is marked by practices such as monoculture (planting the same one or two crops over a large area year after year), raising crops and livestock in isolation from each other, ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a recent discovery. This finding ...

Interestingly, before the discovery of oil, the nation’s economy was mono-product in nature too, with agriculture as the dominant sector.This was before independence and even up to the early ...

The Casarabe people inhabited the Llanos de Moxos region between 500 and 1400 CE. This tropical lowland savanna, characterized by intense rainy seasons and flooding as well as very dry seasons, was ...

Jaguar have always disregarded national borders, but some threats are keeping the big cats contained within the territories that they inhabits. The spread of extensive monoculture plantations, illegal ...

Sustainable agriculture takes many forms ... This system, with its reliance on monoculture, mechanization, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, biotechnology, and government subsidies, has ...