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Human-wildlife coexistence with wolves in Europe requires a holistic approach

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Nov 2026

India’s forgotten vegetables offer a glimpse into what global diets are missing

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2026
: Cacao (Theobroma cacao). Image courtesy of mwintirew via iNaturalist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Heavy rains during critical period of cacao cultivation hit Ghana’s yields

Victoria Schneider 21 Oct 2026

Anatomy of a land grab: the law, likes, and legislator behind an Indigenous land invasion in Brazil

Aimee Gabay, Elisângela Mendonça 19 Oct 2026
Banner image: A worker pruning fruit trees in South Africa in 2007. Image by Trevor Samson / World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Farmworkers’ health matters: South Africa looks to alternatives for chemical pesticides

Anna Weekes 19 Oct 2026

Uncertainty mounts as Suriname struggles to evict illegal settlers in the Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 5 Oct 2026
A resident is extinguishing a fire at Talang Turunan Gajah using simple tools. Photo: Muhammad Akbar/Mongabay Indonesia.

As fires spread, Indonesia’s rubber growers draw on traditional ways to fight back

Taufik Wijaya 2 Oct 2026

Tokyo records historic 35-day rain streak driven by El Niño and stalled fronts

Naina Rao 30 Sep 2026
A Malala drift area resident feeding his goats

Farmers in South Africa’s Limpopo face unpredictable rainfall, uncertain futures

Bernard Chiguvare 25 Sep 2026
Women work in a paddy field at Uttarbahini village, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.

In Nepal, women seek ownership rights to the lands they tend

Haven Sager 24 Sep 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
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

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
Harvesting sorghum in Sudan in 2011. Image by Africa Renewal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Global hunger levels fall but Africa still lags behind, UN report finds

Charles Mpaka 4 Aug 2026

Land records reveal how Mennonites are reshaping Belize’s forests

Maxwell Radwin 31 Jul 2026

Sri Lanka prepares for impending El Niño with traditional and new approaches

Kamanthi Wickramasinghe 31 Jul 2026

Costa Rica banana plantation destroyed protected wetland, complaint alleges

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jul 2026

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders

Naina Rao 30 Jul 2026
avocado plantations

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jul 2026

Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds

Naina Rao 22 Jul 2026

Ecuador’s Amazon coffee farmers get ahead of Europe’s deforestation rules

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

Thai rubber smallholders race to meet new EU deforestation rules

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2026
A farmer in Mwanza district: the Malawi chapter of the Rural Women’s Assembly works to help women like these learn how to practice agroforestry, protect soil health, and secure loans to improve their farms. Image by Swathi Sridharan/ICRISAT via Flick (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Malawi agroecologists see opportunity in Gulf fertilizer supply disruption

Charles Mpaka 3 Jul 2026
Peter Kitur, a 72-year-old farmer in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya, who buys the government subsidized fertilizer. Photo by Achieng' Otieino/Mongabay.

Running on empty: How the gulf war is threatening Kenya’s food security

Achieng’ Otieno 3 Jul 2026
Nenieveh Glinoga now opens the farm to overnight visitors, something she was previously unable to do because of the lack of potable water and bathroom.

A coastal Philippine farm offers a blueprint for farming with wetlands

Mavic Conde 29 Jun 2026
A fisher offloads gear in front of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal operated by state-owned energy company PTT Public Company Limited at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Port in Rayong province, Thailand, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Once completed, the Burapa power plant will receive natural gas via pipeline from a terminal at the port. Image by Andy Ball for Mongabay.

Thai farmers fear water woes from planned LNG plant

Gerald Flynn 29 Jun 2026
A chicken farm in France. Image courtesy of the Brittany Chamber of Agriculture.

Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry

Shanna Hanbury 26 Jun 2026
African baobab (Adansonia digitata), Chikwawa district, Malawi. Image by Rob Palmer via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Three years after Cyclone Freddy, farms remain under water in Malawi’s Elephant Marsh

Charles Mpaka 26 Jun 2026
Farmers of Bangladesh harvest ripe rice crop

Bangladesh’s lightning death toll persists as years of gov’t safeguards fail

Sadiqur Rahman 23 Jun 2026

How one woman’s farm is a model for small-scale farmers in Malawi

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026

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