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A fisherman carries a basketful of hilsa.

Climate change, human pressures push Bangladesh’s ‘national fish’ into decline

Abu Siddique 19 Jun 2023
Mopane worms on mopane leaves.

Southern African caterpillar that feeds millions may be next climate casualty

Ryan Truscott 15 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023

In Senegal, rice intensification helps farmers grow more with less

Noah Tobias 30 May 2023
A farmer plants rice in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Deforestation linked to less rainfall, study shows; El Niño could make it worse

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 May 2023
A girl with avocados

In Indonesia, clouds form over East Java’s promising band of avocado growers

Asad Asnawi 16 May 2023
Elder women members of the Kiday Farmers Community Association' proudly show a variety of heirloom seeds they store to support organic farmers in their riverside hamlet in Quezon province.

Organic farming, and community spirit, buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 May 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023
Shigeatsu Hatakeyama at a tree-planting festival

Saving forests to protect coastal ecosystems: Japan sets historic example

Annelise Giseburt 27 Apr 2023
Farmers winnowing harvested rice.

Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

Abu Siddique 3 Apr 2023
A fisher at Kenya's Lake Victoria.

Fish kills leave Kenya’s Lake Victoria farmers at a loss, seeking answers

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 24 Mar 2023

Can we fix our failing food systems? Agroecology has answers

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Mar 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023
A coffee farmer carries saplings.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution, but critics are wary

Ian Morse 13 Mar 2023
Fishermen at dawn heading out onto Lake Turkana to try their luck for the day. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Traditional fishing boats on a Lombok beach.

On Lombok, rising sea levels force fishers into different jobs

Falahi Mubarok 20 Feb 2023

Pollution and climate change set stage for rise in antimicrobial resistance

John Cannon 8 Feb 2023
Residents of Hanging Site.

In Sierra Leone’s fishing villages, a reality check for climate aid

Ashoka Mukpo 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
Millet harvest in the Nyando climate-smart villages.

Breaking free from photosynthesis: Will high-tech foods save nature?

Sue Branford 11 Nov 2022
Trials of drought tolerant beans in Malawi.

With climate reparations finally on the table at COP27, what now?

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Nov 2022
Farmers with their crop.

Agroecology can feed Africa and tackle climate change — with enough funding

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Nov 2022
Fire in Indonesia forest

Pandemic dip was just a blip as global emissions rebound, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Sep 2022
A moray eel among corals in the Mediterrarnean Sea. Image by Enrico Strocchi via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Sep 2022
Sakiah in her garden.

Urban farming in Indonesia addresses food needs and climate crisis

Sri Wahyuni 24 Aug 2022
Soy and corn make up 88% of Brazil’s grain production

Bad weather knocks down Brazil’s grain production as ‘exhaustively forewarned’

Shanna Hanbury 17 Aug 2022
Fishermen haul their catch from the boat.

In Sumatra, rising seas and sinking land spell hard times for fishers

Tonggo Simangunsong 16 Aug 2022
Residents of Satkhira's coastal communities.

As stronger storms hit Bangladesh farmers, banks are climate collateral damage

Maksuda Aziz 15 Aug 2022
Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu, Somalia

Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Jul 2022
Farmers processing the rice next to paddy fields in Bangladesh.

Climate change puts Bangladeshi farmers’ reliance on rice varieties to the test

Abu Siddique 23 Jun 2022
Salatou Sambou

A tale of successes and new challenges in Senegal: Q&A with ICCA coordinator Salatou Sambou

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 21 Jun 2022

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