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Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands, where the oil spill occurred. Image courtesy of Google Earth. 

Solomon Islands: Oil stops spilling but environmental toll still being calculated

Catherine Wilson 2 Apr 2019

Madeira River dams may spell doom for Amazon’s marathon catfish: Studies

Gustavo Faleiros, Images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 25 Mar 2019
Shade grown coffee in Nicaragua. Image courtesy ICRAF/World Agroforestry

‘The ultimate agricultural practice’: Q&A with organizers of World Agroforestry Congress 2019

Erik Hoffner 20 Mar 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

Agroforestry empowers Morocco’s mountain women

Monica Pelliccia 16 Jan 2019

Agroforestry helps Tajikistan farmers overcome resource pressures

Daniyar Serikov 2 Jan 2019

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

PNG farmers use agroforestry to fight crop diseases and reduce labor

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 19 Dec 2018

Ethiopia: Khat farming threatens food security, biodiversity, women, and agroforestry

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 12 Dec 2018

‘We see its value’: Ugandan communities benefiting from agroforestry

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo 11 Dec 2018

Agroforestry ‘home gardens’ build community resilience in southern Ethiopia

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 4 Dec 2018
Dongria women from Hutesi village farm the slopes of the Niyamgiri hill range. Image by Indrajeet Rajkhowa.

Photos: Indian tribe revives heirloom seeds for health and climate security

Sonali Prasad 30 Nov 2018

Agroforestry supports food security and conservation in Papua New Guinea

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 26 Nov 2018

Agroforestry saves soil and boosts livelihoods in Tajikistan

Daniyar Serikov 13 Nov 2018
Elizabeth Azzuz and Margo Robbins, leaders of the Cultural Fire Management Council, have been helping Yurok Tribal members burn their land to improve the growth of basket materials and other traditional plants. Photo by Jane Braxton Little for Mongabay

Fire and agroforestry revive California indigenous groups’ traditions

Jane Braxton Little 11 Oct 2018

Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 5 Oct 2018

Traditional Kyrgyz walnut-apple forests provide map for sustainable future

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 27 Sep 2018

Crop losses to insects will accelerate as the globe warms: study

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2018

As India’s Ganges runs out of water, a potential food shortage looms

Sahana Ghosh 17 Sep 2018

‘Empty pocket season’: Dayak women farmers grapple with the impacts of oil palm plantations

Tessa Toumbourou 20 Aug 2018

A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA

Jennifer Huizen 11 Apr 2018

Keeping carbon in the ground can cut emissions and boost food security, study finds

Jim Tan 20 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Faith in the forest helps Indonesia’s Dayaks keep plantations, loggers at bay

Hans Nicholas Jong, Indra Nugraha 8 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Scientists say some climate change impacts already unavoidable, but worst can still be averted

Mike Gaworecki 3 Jan 2018

Consensus grows: climate-smart agriculture key to Paris Agreement goals

Justin Catanoso 21 Dec 2017

Trump family planning policy may increase population, hurt women and environment

Tina Deines 10 Nov 2017

Global climate change increasing risk of crop yield losses and food insecurity in the tropical Andes

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2017

As Northwest salmon economy teeters on brink, Trump gives it a push

Saul Elbein 23 Oct 2017

Unfair trade: US beef has a climate problem

Sean Mowbray 18 Oct 2017

Andes dams could threaten food security for millions in Amazon basin

Claire Asher 19 Sep 2017

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