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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
Marmi, a rice farmer, is monitoring the development of rice as the planting season approaches in Buru's Waeapo village.

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

Jaya Barends 25 Jan 2024
If necessary, community people buy fish from the market to meet their protein demand, but they do not catch fish from springs.

Indigenous effort in Bangladesh helps reverse endangered fish’s slide to extinction

Rafiqul Islam 19 Jan 2024
A rice farmer

Prevention is best defense against Bangladesh crop diseases, researchers say

Farhana Parvin 15 Jan 2024

Amid socioeconomic slump, new sugar cane varieties offer hope in Sri Lanka

Manasee Weerathunga 25 Oct 2023
People select fish on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Kenya’s Lake Victoria floods leave orphaned children to run their households

Mactilda Mbenywe 12 Oct 2023
Local fishermen harvesting seaweed in Bangladesh.

Seaweed: The untapped economic potential for Bangladesh

Farhana Parvin 10 Oct 2023
A farmer holds green vegetables in his farm.

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Abu Siddique 28 Sep 2023
Dorothee Mbogo, carrying a machete and wearing a sleeveless white top and dark blue jeans, standing in the disturbed earth of her cassava farm in Batchenga, Cameroon. Image by Ryan Brown/UNWomen via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Agroecology holds promise in Congo Basin — if funding woes can be overcome

Elodie Toto 21 Sep 2023
“We sow our plants and when the time of flowering comes, the drought dries them up and they die,” says Mariano from rural Indigenous Guatemala.

Indigenous peoples undersupported on frontline of hotter, drier, fiery world

Jeremy Hance 13 Sep 2023
Member of the Akilimali women association in her farming plot in Yanonge, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

DRC food sovereignty summit yields support for agroecology, local land rights

Elodie Toto 7 Sep 2023
Termitomyces schimperi (called othepo in Lomwé) for sale at the Gilé market.

Wild mushroom harvest helps keep trees standing in Mozambique

Ryan Truscott 1 Sep 2023
Maize near Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature in Congo Basin

Elodie Toto 28 Aug 2023
The Txori Argi fishing trawler in port.

West African fishers strike for fair wages and ‘respect’ on EU-owned vessels

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Jul 2023
Florinda Dominga Par is an active participant in the agroecological and artisanal market

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

Aimee Gabay 7 Jul 2023
Serge in a greenhouse.

One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy

Áine Donnellan 29 Jun 2023
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
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

Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2023

Madagascar: What happens to villagers when a graphite mine comes knocking?

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Apr 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023

Report: Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 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
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 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

Pollinator declines linked to half million early human deaths annually: Study

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2023
Millet harvest in the Nyando climate-smart villages.

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

Sue Branford 11 Nov 2022
Farmers with their crop.

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

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Nov 2022
Close up of men chanting at a protest in Cayar, Senegal. Image © Greenpeace / Annika Hammerschlag.

Fished out at sea and smoked out on land, Senegal fishers take on a fishmeal factory

Lawon Olalekan 6 Oct 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony Fabro 1 Sep 2022

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