Switzerland is going to the polls on Sunday, in not one but two votes which campaigners say will promote ethical and sustainable food. The votes follow scandals in the last few years over horse meat in lasagne and the destruction of rain forests to make way for palm oil and cattle ranching. And they reflect growing consumer interest - not just in Switzerland but across Europe - in where food comes from and how it is produced.

A Silicon Valley startup called New Age Meats offered us a taste of the world's first pork sausage made in a lab without killing any animals. Here's how the cultured meat cooked, smelled, and tasted.

Farmers growing the smoky pepper had no idea chefs were paying top dollar for it.

TONNES of strawberries are being dumped or going to waste around the country as the needle contamination scare threatens the future of the half-a-billion-dollar industry. Western Australia Strawberry Growers Association head Jamie Michael shared a photo of truckloads of fruit being dumped after a needle was found in South Australia in a punnet sourced from WA. “We are dumping strawberries — we have stopped some of the varieties already,” he told the ABC.

An offshore dairy farm aims to help Rotterdam produce its own food more sustainably.

Farmers in Niger are nurturing gao trees to drive Africa’s biggest environmental change

Urban growing takes a lot of careful planning, hard work, and the right tools (not to mention a little creativity) to get everything growing successfully.

A major new study involving researchers from the University of York has measured a global shift towards more sustainable agricultural systems that provide environmental improvements at the same time as increases in food production. The study shows that the sustainable intensification of agriculture, a term that was once considered paradoxical, delivers considerable benefits to both farmers and the environment. The study, published in the leading journal Nature Sustainability, involved researchers from 17 universities and research institutes in the UK, USA, Sweden, Ethiopia and New Zealand.

Hemp was harvested on George Washington's historic estate, Mount Vernon, on Wednesday for the first time in centuries. By Aris Folley.

Jim Freese grows apples, pears and cherries on 45 acres in the north-central part of this state, on sagebrush-studded land his grandfather bought in 1910. Walking among trees laden with shiny red cherries, Mr. Freese recalled that four years ago his trees were not producing well and his farm was financially struggling. Like many growers, he had been relying on rented honeybees to pollinate his cherry trees every spring, along with wild bees and other insects.

When America’s biotech giant tried to export its know-how to small cotton farmers in Burkina Faso, there was a problem: The quality sank.

Henry Miller is still failing to disclose his collaborations with Monsanto as he attacks their critics and competitors .

They might be an efficient way to produce food in a world with more-extreme weather—but only if growers can figure out a successful business model.

We went to Nebraska to meet the farmers fighting John Deere's repair monopoly.

Sure, a cup of California-grown coffee sells for about $18 a cup, but people are buying it. The niche industry is booming with no signs of slowing, and the state's farmers still can't meet demand.

Meet GummiArm, the soft-handed robot that could fill in for a lack of human crop pickers—if British farmers can afford the cost.

White South African farmers “deserve special attention” from Australia due to the “horrific circumstances” of land seizures and violence, Peter Dutton has said. The home affairs minister told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday his department was examining a range of methods to fast-track their path to Australia on humanitarian or other visa programs.

It had been only five months since I quit my corporate job at IBM and I had a decent first crop. By Venkat Iyer.

Restrictions will remain on transgenic plants, which contain artificially inserted genes from other species.

Is the world ready for cows armed with artificial intelligence? A Dutch companies new tool, 'The Intelligent Dairy Farmer's Assistant,' has found its way to North America.

The FDA has been testing food samples for traces of glyphosate for two years, but the agency has not yet released any official results

The latest E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce is part of a larger trend.

To the farming families of Switzerland’s Engelberg region, cable cars aren’t built for ski holidays and scenic views. They’re vital to daily life.

The F.D.A. banned the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals last year. One organic cattle farmer is sure the ban is being flouted.

US farmers are planting more and more acres with seeds coated with neonicotinoid pesticides. An ecologist explains why this approach is overkill and may be doing more harm than good.

An eco village on the Sunshine Coast was an experiment in communal living when it first started. Thirty years later it is still thriving

Indoor, LED-lit growing operations produce food without soil or sunlight — but they’re expensive to set up

"The math is simple. You tax soybean exports at 25 percent, and you have serious damage to U.S. farmers," said one Iowa grower.

A 3.6-metre shipping container that once sent goods overseas is now an urban farm on the Dartmouth waterfront that's feeding customers closer to home. Very Local Greens planted itself in a large parking lot across the street from the King's Wharf development. The industrial location is in stark contrast to what's inside — a tiny, high-tech farm teeming with life.

With a massive budget from its insurance activities and its policy emphasis on industrial-scale farming, the Iowa Farm Bureau isn't helping rural communities. By Austin Frerick.

Solid Rain is a Mexican product, just introduced to the U.S., which bills itself as a miracle powder that could solve the world's drought problems. And it may be right.

Agriculture economists have long warned that farmers are getting old and staying on their land longer, delaying the turnover to a younger generation. But an Ohio State University professor argues that those fears are overstated and the United States likely will have little problem replacing aging farmers as long as business is good, as it has been for the past decade.

Britain has won the right to export pig semen to China in a deal worth £45m a year. Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, who is accompanying David Cameron on his trip to China, has also embarked on negotiations to export pigs' trotters – a local delicacy – to China.

As biotech giant pays huge sums for data analysis about farms, many are terrified about how it might be harnessed

A growing number of farmers are abandoning genetically modified seeds, but it’s not because they are ideologically opposed to the industry. Simply put, they say non-GMO crops are more productive and profitable.