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Etelvina Ramos: From coca farmer to opponent of the illegal crop

Diana María Pachón 26 Apr 2024
Farming in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests & tourism development

Swati Thapa 22 Apr 2024
A tapir amid a harvested cornfield in northern Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil, in a transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon.

Tapirs in Brazil’s Cerrado inspire research on human health & pesticides

Michael Esquer 10 Apr 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal

Annelise Giseburt 10 Apr 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024

Brazil’s Cerrado is main beneficiary of 2021 pledge to end deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Apr 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024
A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie, Rodrigo Pedroso, Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024
Kouanda Issiaka watering his mango plantation for extra income in Boromo, Burkina Faso.

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan

Aimee Gabay 7 Mar 2024
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Claudia Geib 5 Mar 2024
Noman Masondo, a farmer in Chirundu District of Zambia, implements effective agroecological methods to cultivate his maize crop sustainably, Zambia.

Agroecological solutions better than pesticides in fighting fall armyworm, experts say

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

New agrarian courts in Colombia raise hopes for end to land conflicts

Aimee Gabay 7 Feb 2024
Remberto Gil shows three varieties of corn

Indigenous Zenú turn to ancestral seeds, agroecology to climate-proof their farming

Monica Pelliccia 6 Feb 2024
Coastal farmers are now farming sunflowers and benefiting from the alternative crop.

In Bangladesh, sunflower grows where other crops don’t amid increasing salinity

Farhana Parvin 31 Jan 2024
Bissy (Cola acuminata) fruit pod, seeds, and grated seeds, to make bissy tea, a morning tea and medicinal beverage

Caribbean traditional plant knowledge needs recognition or it’s lost: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 26 Jan 2024

‘Hope is the last to die’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Jose Parava on land rights

Michael Esquer 25 Jan 2024
Jasmine is commonly used to flavor tea and as an offering in devotional ceremonies.

Java’s crumbling coastline and rising tide swamp jasmine flower trade

Moh. Tamimi 24 Jan 2024
Farmers in Bihar, India, growing crops amidst solar panels.

We need a better understanding of how crops fare under solar panels, study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 23 Jan 2024
A farmer plucks moringa leaves.

Bangladeshi farmers eye moringa as a climate and economic solution

Abu Siddique 22 Jan 2024

Markets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade

John Cannon 17 Jan 2024
A teacher and farmer in Lukolela, DRC.

The future of forest carbon credits and voluntary markets

John Cannon 16 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

Con Chim: A window into Vietnam’s past and future beyond rice fields

Giang Pham, Sonal Gupta 16 Jan 2024
A rice farmer

Prevention is best defense against Bangladesh crop diseases, researchers say

Farhana Parvin 15 Jan 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

John Cannon 12 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024

Extreme drought in western Pará pushes family farmers into agroforestry

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 4 Jan 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024

Extreme drought in the Brazilian Amazon forces small farmers to look for alternatives

Julia Lima 29 Dec 2023

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