You can tell a lot about what a community has to offer by the types of people that are moving in and the types that […]

Julie Dawson is the UW-Madison’s new urban and regional food systems specialist. She joined the university as an assistant professor and extension specialist in the […]

When Julie Dawson starts making farm visits, she may face a problem many of her fellow UW-Madison agricultural extension specialists don’t: battling city traffic and […]

Gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 left the tiny nation of Moldova with plenty of barns and other structures from former collective farms—but […]

In their quest to make cellulosic biofuel a viable energy option, many researchers are looking to marginal lands — those unsuitable for growing food — […]

The QuickChip sounded like a killer idea: a gadget about one inch square that could, in just 15 minutes, identify bacteria, fungi, and viruses at […]

When Gene DeFoliart had his brainstorm in 1974, not even he thought his brainchild would be an easy sell. As a professor at UW-Madison, DeFoliart […]

As the world’s population continues to increase, so does the need for sustainable and secure food systems. A new student contest run by UW-Madison advances […]

In the busy port town of Tema, Ghana, the driver of a tanker truck of gasoline northbound for Bamako, Mali, loads a few dozen pineapples […]

A new report by UW-Madison and UW-Extension researchers describes the types of tourists who are most likely to visit the Kickapoo Valley during the off-peak months (between Labor Day […]