Life in places like California’s Death Valley pushes everything to its limit. Temperatures rise past 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The light is harsh, the soil is dry, and most plants wilt fast. Yet one low ...

I am a university president who did his undergraduate work in the state of Iowa and who has studied agricultural regions in more than 15 countries, but on a recent trip to Yuma I saw the most ...

I grow leafy green vegetables in the desert. Here in the United Arab Emirates, we live not far from the birthplace of agriculture, but despite this find ourselves surrounded by sand with the challenge ...

Ak-chin farming makes desert agriculture possible, and now, those practices help communities today. Wenona & Sal Baldenegro (Tucson, Arizona) - Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The Tohono O'odham ...

Even in the Byzantine period, wineries contributed to the local economy in the Negev, according to recently published research. Wine, a profitable and sought-after crop through millennia, was a ...

It’s hard to green the desert. Take China, or Africa’s Sahel region, for example. Their “Great Green Walls,” grand projects to beat back encroaching desert by planting trees, have required decades of ...

These regions receive very little rainfall yet look surprisingly lush at first glance. Their greenery can come from unique ...

As we honor Women’s History Month in Nevada, we reflect on women's changing roles in agriculture from field labor to shaping its evolution through innovation ...

Moroccan authorities are closely monitoring increasing desert locust activity in the country’s southern regions following warnings from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO ...