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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

Can we fix our failing food systems? Agroecology has answers

Mike DiGirolamo 21 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
Farmers with freshly harvested paddy.

Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops

Abu Siddique 31 Aug 2022
Sakiah in her garden.

Urban farming in Indonesia addresses food needs and climate crisis

Sri Wahyuni 24 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
Farmers work at a paddy field in Nepal.

Lack of timely rains, fertilizer hits rice farmers in Nepal’s granary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
Farmers harvesting wheat in Ukraine in the 1990s.

Did Wall Street play a role in this year’s wheat price crisis?

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Jul 2022
Fishermen fishing on the Madeira rapids.

Overexploitation threatens Amazon fisheries with collapse, study warns

Peter Speetjens, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 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
Fishing in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch

Ashoka Mukpo 24 May 2022
Fishermen on Lake Victoria.

Boom and bust on Lake Victoria: Q&A with author Mark Weston

John Cannon 10 May 2022
Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

Indonesians, too reliant on palm oil, should go back to their roots (commentary)

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022

Indonesian program’s promise of food security backfires for local farmers

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2022

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