Author: Owen Roberts

            So many of the things that we depend on in life come from agriculture, or are heavily influenced by it  – food, the environment, health and nutrition, among...

Picture a crop under increasingly intense pressure. Climate change is making yields unpredictable. Water scarcity is making it shrivel. Low prices are keeping its farmers poor. And diversification is making many producers lose...

The Internet keeps slowly chipping away at the uptake of daily newspapers' print editions, the staple of the news business for decades. In early November, an organization called the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a group...

You can buy all the local food you can possibly eat, but unfortunately, it won’t cure some of the farm sector’s cyclical or opportunist ills, such as the way it’s being battered now by huge market forces. ...

            Heard of World Pasta Day? I hadn’t, or at least I hadn’t remembered hearing about it, until I received what is destined to become an award-winning...