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And it's enormous. This year, 703,000 people stood in line to enter the seven pavilions at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris's 15th arrondissement. That's more tha...

There are still more questions than answers about the recall of all the beef processed for a full year up through January by the Rancho Feeding Corp.

Everything old is new again, with farmers and eaters rediscovering heritage breeds of chickens. Here’s how to cook a chicken that actually tastes like chicken.

The potato is the world’s third largest food source, behind rice and wheat, and a staple for more than a billion people. And Peru’s International Potato Center is working hard to make sure that potatoes stay with us.

Everyone seems to think that Monsanto is the face of evil. But why?

It’s hard to believe, but seed planting hasn’t changed much in the last century. But as John Deere and Monsanto move big into precision farming, high-tech solutions may be shaking all that up.

Phosphate mining for fertilizer gave the tiny nation of Nauru the highest GDP per capita in the ’70s. But with phosphate tapped out, an economy on the rocks and a population addicted to imported fast food, can the tiny nation learn to grow again?

In a study published in the journal Ecosphere, a team at the University of Guelph in Ontario discovered bees making their homes out of bits of plastic waste.

From Egypt to Ecuador, Bhutan to the Bayou, there’s no food more universal than rice. So in New York City – home to 3 million foreign-born residents – what crop would you use to educate kids about agriculture?