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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
Fishing in Fiji. Image courtesy of Tom Vierus/WCS.

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
The Bialowieza Forest at sunrise. Photo courtesy of Aleksander Bolbot / WWF. 

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

Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds

John Cannon 21 Jan 2022

By cultivating seaweed, Indigenous communities restore connection to the ocean

Claudia Geib 14 Jan 2022

Indonesian research center for medicinal plants displaces incense harvesters

Barita News Lumbanbatu 13 Jan 2022

On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary)

Barbara Wells 12 Jan 2022

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jan 2022
Woman from the Khasi community in India showcases varieties of potato. Image courtesy of Global Hub On Indigenous Peoples Food System/Flickr.

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

Yon Fernandez-de-Larrinoa 6 Jan 2022

Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology

Luiz Fellipe Silva and Fellipe Abreu 4 Jan 2022

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution shows

Luís Patriani 3 Jan 2022

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

Fábio Zuker/InfoAmazonia, Tatiana Merlino/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

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