The U.S. groundwater supply is smaller than originally thought, according to a new research study that includes a University of Arizona hydrologist.
New, dynamic food system strategies are necessary in the 21st century to help reduce hunger, ensure agricultural stability and livelihoods, and prevent environmental degradation. As a land-grant university, the UA has spent years equipping students, local Arizonans, and partners around the world with agricultural and resource management tools and the insights into food security that will help solve the food challenges of the future.
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In the most recent battle in the unending war between farmers and bugs, the bugs are biting back by adapting to crops genetically engineered to kill them.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still warning consumers to throw out their romaine lettuce after 32 people had reported cases of E. coli.
In the past, natural low-intensity ground fires thinned out the forests. But decades of fire suppression have let thickets grow dense, turning them into fuel for wildfires.
Gila River Farms near Sacaton has been growing alfalfa and high-end cotton — which is named after the Pima people who inhabited the Gila and Salt river valleys — for 50 years.
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Guest speaker: Murat Kacira, Ph.D.; UA professor of agirculture and biosystems engineering and director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Program
A scientist is always in search of new information, challenging ideas, and the application of new technologies to one's own research and teaching endeavors. And so, over the past year, or so, Kacira has traveled across the globe in search of these exciting experiences as they relate to controlled environment agriculture.