Costa Rica has taken a groundbreaking step in promoting sustainable agriculture and advancing the circular economy with the development of its first fertilizer derived from agricultural waste.

Reducing agricultural ammonia emissions to improve air quality is a global challenge 1, because nitrogen fertilizers are increasingly needed to ensure food security 2. The fraction of nitrogen in ...

The future connection between human waste, sanitation technology and sustainable agriculture is becoming more evident. According to a civil and environmental engineering professor, countries could be ...

The wastewater draining from massive pools of sewage sludge has the potential to play a role in more sustainable agriculture, according to environmental engineering researchers at Drexel University. A ...

In residential buildings, people throw out a lot of garbage, and a huge portion of it is food. An estimated 30% of the garbage of a typical household is food scraps and food that’s gone to waste. When ...

Discover how manure, wood ash, and modern NPK fertilizer transformed American agriculture long before tractors and steam engines.

The study focuses on Hengshui City, a national pilot for China’s “zero-waste city” initiative, which generates 4 million tons of livestock manure annually. By carrying out the construction of the ...

When we think about agriculture, we often focus on the end product: cotton for a t-shirt, hay destined to feed animals through the winter, or hamburgers for our summer barbecues. However, after we ...

Machine learning can pinpoint 'genes of importance' that help crops to grow with less fertilizer, according to a new study. It can also predict additional traits in plants and disease outcomes in ...