Agritel’s data and analysis tools will help farmers and agro-industrial companies manage risk in agricultural commodity markets. (Image source: Catkin/Pixabay)

Global commodity information service Argus has purchased Agritel, provider of information, consulting and forecasting on agricultural and agro-industrial markets

Cooperatives can act as a powerful vehicle for driving equality, innovation and behaviour change in rural communities. (Image source: Bishnu Sarangi/Pixabay)

Mallikarjuna Kumaraswamy, vice-president for OIam’s cashew business, has explained three ways the cooperative model is helping reimagine sustainable cashew supply chains

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