A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
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Competition issues are at the heart of the surge in prices and low production in Malawi and Zambia.
Despite calls from some corners to switch from canola oil and corn oil to beef tallow, the move is unlikely to make Americans healthier.
Russia’s move, which it followed by bombing the key port city of Odesa and threatening to attack any ship sailing for Ukraine, sent global food prices skyrocketing.
New practices aim to improve soil health, return more carbon to soil and reduce greenhouse gas losses.
Soy offers many potential health benefits and is generally cheaper than meat.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
Recent extreme rains and weather in the Midwest are causing a multitude of problems in the topsoil that much of the nation’s food supply relies on.
Many of the crop plants that feed us waste 20 percent of their energy, especially in hot weather. Plant geneticists prove that capturing this energy could boost crop yields by up to 40 percent.
An AC/DC-loving biologist tests the band’s 1980 assertion that “rock ‘n’ roll ain’t noise pollution.” Turns out it can be – and the negative effects of noise can ripple through an ecosystem.
There’s a good reason China took aim at US soybean exports when it announced its latest list of retaliatory tariffs.
The history of the rubber ‘boom’ reveals why.
How do foods break into new niches and global markets? US cranberry growers, saddled with large surpluses and working to boost demand for their product, could take a lesson from soybeans.
Charcoal rot is associated with yield losses in crucial crops like maize, soybean and sorghum.
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Lecturer, University of Essex
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University
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PhD student in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor Plant Science, Section: Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Soil Management and Environment, Iowa State University
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Emeritus Professor of Biotechnology, University of South Wales
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Associate Professor of Environmental Soil Quality/Health, Colorado State University
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Chair in Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Agronomy and Agroecology, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of Nutrition & Dietetics and Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Adelaide University
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Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
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Economist at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development, University of Johannesburg