Agriculture News

RSS
6908 stories

Bhutan’s pursuit of happiness takes root on its farms

Mongabay.com 7 Sep 2026
The riverside in Kuching city center, Sarawak state, Malaysia, is shrouded in thick haze, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. Image by AP Photo/Xpin Voon.

As Indonesia’s wildfires rage, haze spreads farther across Southeast Asia

Yenni Kwok 4 Sep 2026
Deforestation in the Chiquitania in 2021, the Bolivian region with the largest tropical dry forest in the Americas. Image courtesy of Eduardo Franco.

Planned Bolivia-Brazil highway threatens Chiquitania dry forest

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Sep 2026
Cattle graze on land that has been burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Pará state, Brazil. Image by AP Photo / Andre Penner.

Invaders storm Indigenous Amazon land, threatening isolated people

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 2 Sep 2026
An agroforestry tour during a workshop at the Permaculture Paradise Institute in Lilongwe, Malawi. Image by Emilie Vansant.

Growing Indigenous food trees in East Africa fights malnutrition and biodiversity loss

Claudia Geib 31 Aug 2026
Mongabay_Thumbnail_ThaiCow

This rare wild cow is making a comeback

Sandy Watt 31 Aug 2026
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

Pastoralists in a Changing World

26 Aug 2026
Masahiro Miura, a researcher in the national breeding division of the Forest Tree Breeding Center, in Hitachi, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.

As hay fever sufferers grow in Japan, the country is looking to plant no-pollen trees

Jonathan Vit 26 Aug 2026
James Giahyue, editor-in-chief of The DayLight, a Liberian environmental news magazine. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘They will do it legally or illegally’: Interview with James Giahyue on Liberia’s cocoa boom

Ashoka Mukpo 26 Aug 2026
A Kenya Wildlife Service team rescued this elephant that was stuck in the mud in Muchuro, Isiolo County, on Aug. 22, 2026. Image courtesy of KWS.

Kenyan investigators arrest 4 people linked to 18 Amboseli elephant deaths

Lynet Otieno 26 Aug 2026

At global desertification conference, pastoralists call for greater recognition

Joseph Lee 25 Aug 2026
A chorten at a rice field in Bhutan.

In Bhutan, a philosophy of happiness guides a push for food self-sufficiency

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Aug 2026
Traders sorting through cocoa beans in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

EU’s deforestation rule could derail Liberia’s cocoa trade

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026

DNA analysis of Asiatic wild dogs scat in India reveals wild prey preference

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2026
Cleared land at an industrial oil palm plantation at Tripa peat swamp in Aceh province.

Palm oil firms kept zero-deforestation pledges, but forests saw little extra benefit

Hans Nicholas Jong 25 Aug 2026
Aerial view of the Cuanavale river, which runs through the Angolan Highlands and joins the Cuito River. Image courtesy of Zach Vincent for National Geographic.

Angola’s peatlands highly underestimated, new study suggests

Victoria Schneider 21 Aug 2026
Japanese fire-bellied newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster).

How ‘gentle power’ can preserve traditional biodiversity in Tokyo

Annelise Giseburt 21 Aug 2026

Sloth bears help shape India’s dry forests as unlikely seed dispersers

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2026
Lizulu Market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe

Indigenous food sovereignty is one of the most overlooked conservation strategies (commentary)

Gemma Sethsmith, Brijlal Chaudhari 18 Aug 2026

As an industry and a cooking ingredient, seaweed is gaining ground in Brazil

Letícia Klein 18 Aug 2026
Malawian farmer Laston Mchiswe watering cabbage that he will sell to markets in the nearby city of Blantyre to earn money for food for his own family. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

Land crisis and ‘green revolution’ practices trap millions of Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 18 Aug 2026
A migrant worker in a cacao farm in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

‘Cocoa fever’ in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh is wiping out native forests

Mongabay.com 18 Aug 2026
Olga Muthambe, Mozambican social activist and Executive Director of the NGO Hikone Moçambique. Image courtesy of Olga Muthambe.

‘To speak of agroecology is to speak of farmers’ autonomy’: Interview with Olga Muthambe

Far Vubil 14 Aug 2026
African savanna elephants in Namibia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

More people, farms, and drought could mean more elephant conflict in Southern Africa

David Brown 14 Aug 2026

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026

Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2026
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms in the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso.

Brazil Supreme Court upholds laws that led to downfall of Amazon soy moratorium

Associated Press 12 Aug 2026
Cape Three Points, Ghana. Image courtesy of Hεn Mpoano.

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area

Mabel Adorkor Annang 12 Aug 2026
George Bowey in an illegal cacao farm in the proposed Kwa National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Cacao plantations in Liberia encroach into proposed Kwa national park

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026

In India, sacred groves serve as vital nurseries for future forests

Mongabay.com 12 Aug 2026

How Sri Lanka’s heirloom rice can preserve Indigenous farming and help manage disease

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 8 Aug 2026
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Suriname moves to evict Mennonites and illegal Amazon settlers

Maxwell Radwin 7 Aug 2026

you're currently offline