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Farmer Elizabeth Kamphale explains the agroecology methods she uses to farm orange maize in the village of Kamala in Malawi's Dedza district.

A return to agroecology traditions points the way forward for Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 3 Jun 2022

Study: Regenerative farming boosts soil health, yielding more nutritious crops

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2022
Crotch’s bumble bee (Bombus crotchii) on milkweed flowers

California court ruling opens door for protection of insects as endangered species

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jun 2022
Drying farmed cannabis.

Legal and illegal cannabis: A cause for growing environmental concern

Sean Mowbray 2 Jun 2022

A hidden crisis in Indonesia’s palm oil sector: 6 takeaways from our investigation

Mongabay, The Gecko Project, BBC News 31 May 2022

‘Water grab’: Big farm deals leave small farmers out to dry, study shows

Caroline Chebet 30 May 2022

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier

Sean Mowbray 26 May 2022

Seed banks catalog Brazil’s food past to safeguard its future

Sibélia Zanon 26 May 2022

Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves

Aldem Bourscheit 24 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
Young people at Macatumbalen are trained by their parents to co-manage the community nursery where the tree seedlings are grown and regularly watered.

Devastated by a typhoon, community foresters in the Philippines find little support

Keith Anthony Fabro 23 May 2022

‘The promise was a lie’: How Indonesian villagers lost their cut of the palm oil boom

Mongabay, The Gecko Project, BBC News 23 May 2022
Irma and Heloisa collect Murici fruits ( Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Rich) at the Ripá tribe on Pimentel Barbosa indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

Daniel Grossman, Dado Galdieri 16 May 2022
Headshot of an African grey parrot in profile. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Ugandan court hands Congolese parrot trafficker seven-year jail sentence

Benjamin Jumbe 13 May 2022

New investigation links chicken supply chains in Europe to Indigenous rights abuses in Brazil

Laurel Sutherland 13 May 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Michel Pimbert, founder and director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. Image courtesy of Coventry University.

Food for all: Q&A with Michel Pimbert of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Anna Lappé 11 May 2022
Black-and-yellow broadbill (Eurylaimus ochromalus), a near threatened bird species recorded during point count surveys in an agroforestry orchard in Rembau, Malaysia.

In oil palm-dominated Malaysia, agroforestry orchards are oases of bird life: Study

Grace Dungey 11 May 2022

Indonesia to probe scale of tax-dodging illegal oil palm plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022

Partnering with farmers is key to land restoration success (commentary)

Ermias Betemariam, Marcela Quintero 3 May 2022
Lokutan Amaler speaks to fellow farmers in Kangirega Village, Turkana County, on 23rd March 2022. Image courtesy of UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

Land restoration requires immediate action and Indigenous land rights, says U.N. report

Dimitri Selibas 2 May 2022
A model artesian well that ICRAF installed in Winongan, Pasuruan district. The well is equipped with a valve for more efficient water use.

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Asad Asnawi 28 Apr 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

Community empowerment and forest conservation grow from the galip nut in Papua New Guinea

Mike DiGirolamo 27 Apr 2022
According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022
A lesser adjutant stork in a farm.

Study: Farmland birds in Nepal, India in dire need of conservation action

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Apr 2022

New report pieces together toll of environmental damage in Venezuela in 2021

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2022

In Brazil’s northeast, family farmers are guardians of creole seeds

Sucena Shkrada Resk 19 Apr 2022

Colombian Indigenous community waits in poverty as courts weigh ownership of ancestral land

Mongabay Latam, Rutas del Conflicto 14 Apr 2022

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