Insect pollinators provide a service worth an estimated £430 million to food, farming and retail sectors in the UK. How can we protect them, and...
Worldwide 500 million smallholder farmers support a total of 2 billion people. A debate taking place in London next Monday (28 January) will put...
With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...
New models are being developed to predict how changing land use in the tropics could affect future climate, air quality and crop production.
The Corn Returns – market data from the 19th century and beyond – represent a valuable resource for economic historians looking at the emergence of...
A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help...
Conservation scientists working in partnership with practitioners and policy makers are building practical tools for real-world conservation.
In this video Dr Beverley Glover explains how a daisy is a collection of tiny flowers grouped together to make it look like a single big flower.
Some plants go to extraordinary lengths to attract pollinators. A unique collaboration between plant scientists and physicists is revealing the full...
Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.
Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...
A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...
