Kale has nothing on a certain modern day superfood — a sweet potato that just won what is essentially the "Nobel Prize" of the food and agriculture world. This isn't your average spud — the ...

Scientists at J.R. Simplot Company developed a potato genetically engineered to resist the late blight that destroyed crops of potatoes in Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s leading to the Irish Potato ...

Each year, the World Food Prize Foundation honors individuals who contributed to “improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world.” This year’s laureates include a team ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Employees at the chemical company BASF spent Tuesday at a Yam Jam to benefit the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. At the Yam Jam, the employees took sweet ...

New research has shown that a strain of genetically-modified potato appears to be immune to the devastating fungus responsible for the famine of 1845. Late blight, caused by the organism Phytophthora ...

"Yes, it is dark", says The Great Hunger's publisher, historical board game company Compass Games, "but it deserves to be ...