The negative impacts of increased leakiness of the soil system include nutrient loss to the atmosphere and rivers. (Image source: StockSnap/Pixabay)

Founded on more than 50 years’ worth of data from a unique field experiment, researchers have demonstrated that common farming practices drain the soil of carbon, altering the structure of soils’ microscopic habitat and the genetics of microbes living within it, according to the team of microbiologists and physicists led by Rothamsted Research

The Olam Prize aims to support breakthrough innovations so that together we can re-imagine agriculture for greater food security. (Image source: Dimitry B./Flickr)

Olam International, in partnership with Agropolis Fondation, is searching for ground-breaking scientific research that can deliver transformational impacts within global agriculture and win a US$75,000 grant to support development and implementation

These products include fertiliser raw materials such as sulphuric acid, vegetable oil, soybean, barley, wheat and dried grains. (Image source: kangbch/Pixabay)

Sino-Global Shipping America, a non-asset based global shipping and freight logistics integrated solution provider, has signed a non-binding MoU with Yunnan Jingyifeng Supply Chain Management (JYF) to jointly develop the business of exporting agricultural products to China

As the virus took hold as it moved across the global, agricultural and industrial sectors learned lessons from China and many were given government support. (Image source: ILO Asia-Pacific/Flickr)

Julia Meehan, managing editor, fertilisers, ICIS, has examines the impact that the pandemic has had on the fertiliser market and how this is affecting other interconnected areas such as food-supply chains