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The Manobo Houses float along the waterways of Lake Panlabuhan in the Agusan Marsh.

Philippines’ largest freshwater wetland and Indigenous livelihoods face multiple threats

Jewel S. Cabrera 26 Jul 2023
A farmer in a paddy field.

Vietnamese rice farmers go high-tech to anticipate a low-water future

Sonal Gupta | Victoria Mann | JJ Mazzucotelli | Michelle Gomez | Hafsa Maqsood 24 Jul 2023
Florinda Dominga Par is an active participant in the agroecological and artisanal market

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala

Aimee Gabay 7 Jul 2023
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

Claudia Geib 6 Jul 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
Two striped snakeheads mating.

Bangladesh ramps up freshwater fish conservation in bid for food security

Farhana Parvin 4 Jul 2023
A fisher in Fiji.

Study finds locally managed marine areas in Fiji yield mixed results

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jun 2023
Serge in a greenhouse.

One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy

Áine Donnellan 29 Jun 2023

The climate is already changing in the Matopiba, Brazil’s new agricultural frontier

Evanildo da Silveira 26 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 paddy field farmer wades through his agricultural land flooded with red mud.

Red floods near giant Indonesia nickel mine blight farms and fishing grounds

Riza Salman 14 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera, Davide Mancini, Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023
A youth leader demonstrates the impact of oil production on the local community.

As Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta, state-backed report describes legacy of carnage

Ashoka Mukpo 16 May 2023
Overhead shot of two men standing in shallow water, bent over repairing a large wooden canoe. Image by Bolaji Eiseke via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

For weary Niger Delta residents, shocking oil pollution report offers little hope

Ini Ekott 16 May 2023
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023
A girl with avocados

In Indonesia, clouds form over East Java’s promising band of avocado growers

Asad Asnawi 16 May 2023
Elder women members of the Kiday Farmers Community Association' proudly show a variety of heirloom seeds they store to support organic farmers in their riverside hamlet in Quezon province.

Organic farming, and community spirit, buoy a typhoon-battered Philippine town

Keith Anthony Fabro 15 May 2023
Indigenous ingredients and produce variety from traditional food production systems in Meghalaya. Image by NESFAS.

Only fundamental change can fix our broken food systems (commentary)

Babafemi Oyewole, Estrella Penunia 11 May 2023
A coho salmon spawning.

Spamming streams with hatchery salmon can disrupt ecosystems, study finds

Ruth Kamnitzer 9 May 2023

After Sri Lanka, Nepal debates exporting its ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 May 2023
Victor Emata, a SEAMANCOR-trained tour guide, rowing a boat.

A Philippine town and its leaders show how mangrove restoration can succeed

Mavic Conde 4 May 2023

Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared

Malavika Vyawahare 1 May 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023

High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia’s food estate

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Apr 2023
The cat-sized Philippine palm civet (Paradoxurus philippinensis).

Philippine tribe boosts livelihoods and conservation with civet poop coffee

Bong S. Sarmiento 18 Apr 2023
Harvesting abundance in the Amazon, and extinguishing the poverty mentality.

From scarcity to abundance: The secret of the ‘peace farmers’ of Colombia

Sandra Weiss 17 Apr 2023

Report: Indonesia’s ‘food estate’ program repeating failures of past projects

Hans Nicholas Jong 11 Apr 2023
Farmers winnowing harvested rice.

Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

Abu Siddique 3 Apr 2023
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.

Robust river governance key to restoring Mekong River vitality in face of dams

Carolyn Cowan 30 Mar 2023

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