A new study reveals how ancient Chinese farmers managed soil fertility and water resources over thousands of years. By ...

At Xiatang village in Xianju county, East China's Zhejiang province, remains of a primitive village more than 9,000 years old ...

Anastasia Mwamula, a farmer in Butaleja, Uganda, transformed her agricultural output through rice-fish farming—an ancient Chinese technique taught via the FAO-China-Uganda South-South Cooperation (SSC ...

In ancient China, vast amounts of land ... land in particular ways during the different seasons. China was built on agriculture. During the period before the Qin Dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC ...

BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have made groundbreaking discoveries about East Asia's ancient populations by analyzing DNA from 127 individuals who lived in southwest China's Yunnan ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has announced the inclusion of the Zhejiang Deqing ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

High on a mountain in China, Indigenous tea growers are using ancient techniques to create ... The region’s Dai and Blang peoples have used natural farming methods for over a millennium.

The delta was home to an ancient kingdom called Nanyue ... followed by the years of burning and farming that followed, pushed the species (Chinese swamp cypress, formally called Glyptostrobus ...