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

Christa Avampato 31 Dec 2021

Mali’s centuries-old pastoralist traditions wilt as the climate changes

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Dec 2021

Small coffee farmers lay their chips on smart agriculture to overcome climate crisis in the Cerrado biome

Débora Pinto 29 Dec 2021
Maya Indigenous man farming

Unique Indigenous Maya food system blends cropping techniques in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 15 Dec 2021

Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

Claire Asher 13 Dec 2021
Melanesia tropical fruits

Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes

Carolyn Cowan 6 Dec 2021

Climate change means hunger in our communities, African women leaders at COP26

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Nov 2021

Under Bolsonaro, Indigenous Yanomami see surge in child malnutrition deaths

Rafael Oliveira, Agência Pública 8 Nov 2021

Brazil’s Indigenous Xavante strangled by agribusiness, slammed by COVID-19

Fabio Zuker, InfoAmazonia, Tatiana Merlino, from O Joio e O Trigo 4 Nov 2021

In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future

Aurora Solá 5 Oct 2021
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Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2021

In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem

David Njagi 8 Sep 2021

In Peru, ancient food technologies revived in pursuit of future security

Illa Liendo Tagle 3 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 30 Aug 2021

Enhancing biodiversity through the belly: Agroecology comes alive in Chile

Constanza Monterrubio Solís 30 Aug 2021

X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Aug 2021

A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security

Sue Branford, Glenn Scherer 4 Aug 2021
An indri lemur (Indri indri). Image by Rhett A. Butler.

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Aug 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021
A man taps into a frankincense tree to extract the yellowish resin out of it in the customary forest of the Pandumaan-Sipituhuta Indigenous community in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Barita News Lumbanbatu/Mongabay Indonesia.

For an Indigenous group in Sumatra, a forest regained is being lost once more

Barita News Lumbanbatu 27 Jul 2021
rubber agroforestry

Climate, biodiversity & farmers benefit from rubber agroforestry: report

Erik Hoffner 29 Jun 2021
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Farmers in the Amazon could earn 9 times more and prevent ecosystem collapse

Jonah Wittkamper, Alexander Borges Rose, Denis Minev 22 Jun 2021

NGOs back Maldives’ ambitious plan to save Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna

Malavika Vyawahare 8 Jun 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

A fatal stabbing sends a Gambian fishing village into turmoil over fishmeal

Louise Hunt 29 Apr 2021

Food systems drive a third of greenhouse gas emissions, study estimates

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2021

The world needs a food movement based on agroecology and equity (commentary)

Pat Mooney 12 Apr 2021
Locust swarm at Samburu, Kenya. Image by Sven Torfinn/FAO.

East Africa deploys huge volumes of ‘highly hazardous’ pesticides against locust plague

Leopold Salzenstein 1 Apr 2021
The Javari River where it forms the border between Peru and Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Rivers can be climate change solutions, too (commentary)

Michele Thieme 30 Mar 2021

Can agroecology feed the world?

Mike Gaworecki 10 Mar 2021

Dusty winds exacerbate looming famine in Madagascar’s deep south

Rivonala Razafison 29 Jan 2021

Agroforestry, an ancient climate solution that boosts food production and biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jan 2021

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