Cloud computing and freely available, high-resolution satellite data have enabled recent progress in crop yield mapping at fine scales.

Sugar is the second largest agro-based industry in India and has a major influence on the country's water, food, and energy security.

Researchers including David Lobell analyze how human-caused climate change has impacted a water defecit in Southern Africa and might contribute to a rising food security crisis in the region.

The advent of multiple satellite systems capable of resolving smallholder agricultural plots raises possibilities for significant advances in measuring and understanding agricultural productivity...

The economic costs of Indonesia’s 2015 forest fires are estimated to exceed US $16 billion, with more than 100,000 premature deaths.

Feeding a growing population while reducing negative environmental impacts is one of the greatest challenges of the coming decades.

Wheat is the most important staple crop grown in Australia, and Australia is one of the top wheat exporting countries globally.

The ratio of plant carbon gain to water use, known as water use efficiency (WUE), has long been recognized as a key constraint on crop production and an important target for crop improvement.

Crop type mapping at the field level is necessary for a variety of applications in agricultural monitoring and food security.

Indonesia’s oil palm expansion during the last two decades has resulted in widespread environmental and health damages through land clearing by fire and peat conversion, but it has also contributed...

Low-intensity tillage has become more popular among farmers in the United States and many other regions.