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Farmers with freshly harvested paddy.

Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops

Abu Siddique 31 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
A farmer cuts cacao pods from the tree in Colombia.

Delectable but destructive: Tracing chocolate’s environmental life cycle

Sean Mowbray 1 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 and Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2022
A fisherman shows off his catch at a market in Indonesia.

Record-breaking seafood production must undergo a ‘blue transformation’: FAO

Elizabeth Fitt 11 Jul 2022
A fish market in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Fish-farming practices come under scrutiny amid surge in aquaculture

Nick Rodway 6 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
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Foreign capital powers Brazil’s meatpackers and helps deforest the Amazon

Moyra Ashford, Sue Branford 7 Jun 2022
Fishing in Sierra Leone

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

Ashoka Mukpo 24 May 2022
A migrant fisherman in Thailand.

Wage-related abuses in fishing industry exacerbated by pandemic response

Annelise Giseburt 12 May 2022
Fishermen on Lake Victoria.

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

John Cannon 10 May 2022

Troubled waters: A massive salmon farm off the coast of Maine is stalled

Caitlin Looby 25 Apr 2022

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

Taufik Wijaya 7 Apr 2022

Study links many reported fisheries crimes to just a few repeat offenders

Annelise Giseburt 24 Mar 2022

Campaigners against dog meat trade take on one Indonesian city at a time

Eko Widianto 7 Mar 2022

Banning high-deforestation palm oil has limited impact on saving forests: Study

Loren Bell 3 Mar 2022

Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

Brazil agrochemical bill nears passage in Bolsonaro’s ‘agenda of death’

Sarah Brown 18 Feb 2022

Seychelles embraces transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Feb 2022

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022

Warmer, oxygen-poor waters threaten world’s ‘most heavily exploited’ fish

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jan 2022
Indigenous woman potato

Indigenous food systems can provide game-changing solutions for humankind (commentary)

Yon Fernandez-de-Larrinoa 6 Jan 2022

Urban ecology that saved Argentina’s Rosario held up as a model for others

Christa Avampato 31 Dec 2021

Changes to Madagascar’s trawling sector raise questions and hopes

Edward Carver 29 Dec 2021

Madagascar’s small fishers cheer new trawl-free zone, but do trawlers obey it?

Edward Carver 28 Dec 2021
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Dec 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities

Gladstone Taylor 18 Oct 2021

Brazil farming co-op carves a sustainable path through agribusiness stronghold

Shanna Hanbury 11 Oct 2021

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