Dan Charles
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In California's greatest farming region, there's a water crisis from overpumping groundwater. The state passed a law in 2014 to restrict overdrawing the aquifers, and the limits are going into effect.
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Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land … into solar farms. -
An enormous solar project is moving forward in California, on land that farmers have had to keep fallow as the state restricts over-pumping the aquifers they previously used to irrigate crops.
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This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower. -
Traditional farmers around the world are walking away from millions of acres of land where they once grew crops or grazed animals. It's provoking mixed reactions. -
Peatlands, formed by ancient wetlands, store more carbon than the world's forests. But when they're drained for farming, they vent heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air. -
The grass pea is one: a hardy crop that can thrive in a drought. An agriculturist is spearheading an effort to diversify what farmers grow as climate change threatens staples like corn and wheat. -
The act of providing food aid to countries in need turns out to be a complicated and controversial matter. Here's why.
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Tons of green energy projects, both wind and solar, want to connect to the grid. But they're running into a surprising obstacle.
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A promising, less labor-intensive perennial rice is beginning to take off in China, but whether this success can be replicated in other crops like wheat or corn remains to be seen.
