At $100 per gram, to say saffron is a delicacy would be an understatement. Saffron is known for giving dishes like Spanish paella its rich flavor and golden tint and has long been a reputable spice ...

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Desert Farming Initiative has had to take a pause in providing more than a dozen local growers with organic plant starts for their farms and agricultural programs, due ...

Native American farmers in the southwestern United States have long deployed weather-adaptive techniques to grow crops such as corn and beans in high-desert environments only occasionally visited by ...

I am a university president who did his undergraduate work in the state of Iowa and who has studied agricultural regions in more than 15 countries, but on a recent trip to Yuma I saw the most ...

EL OUED, Algeria Salim Ghrassia graduated with a statistics degree five years ago but opted for a rather different career: joining Algeria’s push to farm the Sahara desert. “I saw the agricultural ...

VALENCIA — Sahara means “desert” in Arabic. A Sahrawi, then, is someone from the desert. That’s why the people of Western Sahara are known today as Sahrawi — both those still under Moroccan rule and ...

Panels alter soil moisture and MAOM carbon, so careful siting and spacing help support renewables without harming nearby ...