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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
The main road built by PT Gema Kreasi Perdana

Sulawesi islanders grieve land lost to nickel mine

Eko Rusdianto 6 Oct 2022
Elias Saker inspects wheat. Image by Marta Vidal for Mongabay.

Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

Marta Vidal 20 Sep 2022
Seaweeds are harvested and dried.

Seaweed an increasingly fragile lifeline for Philippine farmers

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 1 Sep 2022
A farmer shows a salak variant

In Bali, snakefruit farmers hope agroforestry bears fruit as island reopens

Luh de Suryani 1 Sep 2022
Farmers with freshly harvested paddy.

Lack of finance prevents Bangladesh farmers from diversifying their rice crops

Abu Siddique 31 Aug 2022
Mbah Gimbal

In Indonesian Papua, a one-time gun trafficker now preaches permaculture

Tantowi Djauhari 30 Aug 2022
Fishers in a boat in the Malampaya Sound mangroves.

Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines’ Palawan

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 29 Aug 2022
Sakiah in her garden.

Urban farming in Indonesia addresses food needs and climate crisis

Sri Wahyuni 24 Aug 2022
Hutan Keramat Penyabungan

Encircled by plantations, a Sumatran Indigenous community abides changing times

Suryadi 22 Aug 2022
field

Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature

Dimitri Selibas 19 Aug 2022

Drawing the wrong lessons from Sri Lanka’s organic farming experience (commentary)

Nethmi S. Perera Bathige and William G. Moseley 12 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
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
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jul 2022

In Brazil’s semiarid region, agrivoltaics show promise for food, energy security

Marina Martinez 5 Jul 2022
Farmer Elizabeth Kamphale explains the agroecology methods she uses to farm orange maize in the village of Kamala in Malawi's Dedza district.

A return to agroecology traditions points the way forward for Malawi’s farmers

Charles Mpaka 3 Jun 2022

Seed banks catalog Brazil’s food past to safeguard its future

Sibélia Zanon 26 May 2022
Irma and Heloisa collect Murici fruits ( Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Rich) at the Ripá tribe on Pimentel Barbosa indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

Daniel Grossman and Dado Galdieri 16 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Michel Pimbert, founder and director of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University. Image courtesy of Coventry University.

Food for all: Q&A with Michel Pimbert of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Anna Lappé 11 May 2022

Partnering with farmers is key to land restoration success (commentary)

Ermias Betemariam, Marcela Quintero 3 May 2022
Rice planting. Image via MASIPAG.

From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention

Anna Lappé 13 Apr 2022

Food security framing increases relevance of biodiversity negotiations to less industrialized nations (commentary)

Jean Wiener 30 Mar 2022

As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)

Robert Muggah; Peter Schmidt and Giovanna Kuele 28 Mar 2022

World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2022

WWF report calls forests a vital public health solution

Maxwell Radwin 10 Mar 2022

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2022

Forest clearing for crop program in Papua may unleash massive emissions

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Mar 2022
Baka people

Indigenous hunter-gatherers in Cameroon diversify food sources in the face of change

Laurel Sutherland 1 Feb 2022

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