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What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

Ellen Nemitz 19 Sep 2024
A black soldier fly.

Strengthening crops with insect exoskeletons? Study says yes, by way of the soil

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023
Fishermen going fishing at Dunga beach, Kisumu.

Kenyan science interns turn Lake Victoria’s fish waste into oil and flowers

Mactilda Mbenywe 17 Mar 2023
A fresh tilapia from Lake Toba, where the fish are raised by small farmers and large companies, for local consumption and for export to countries like the U.S. Photo by Drriss & Marrionn/Flickr

Sustainable fish farming & agroecology buoy Kenyan communities

David Njagi 8 Feb 2023

Indonesian program pays fishers to collect plastic trash at sea

Basten Gokkon 6 Oct 2022

Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic

Basten Gokkon 29 Aug 2022

Poor waste management turns dump sites into death traps for Sri Lanka’s elephants

Malaka Rodrigo 20 Mar 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

Biofuel in Mexico: Uphill battle against bureaucracy, organized crime

Sandra Weiss 2 Jul 2021

Converting biowaste to biogas could power cleaner, sustainable Earth future

Marina Martinez 1 Jul 2021

A startup deploys black soldier flies in the Philippines’ war on waste

Bong S. Sarmiento 25 Jun 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2021

Geography on the plate: The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

Aurora Solá 29 Dec 2020

In Indonesia’s coastal villages, the plastic crisis is both homegrown and invasive

Basten Gokkon 9 Sep 2020

Move over, fishmeal: Insects and bacteria emerge as alternative animal feeds

Emilie Filou 24 Apr 2020

Food is biggest stumbling block on zero-waste nature tour

JoAnna Haugen 10 Oct 2019

In the rice-rich Mekong region, will husk briquettes take hold?

Lauren Crothers 28 Aug 2019

’Livestock revolution’ triggered decline in global pasture: Report

John Cannon 19 Jun 2019

Indonesia leans on businesses to do more about plastic waste

Basten Gokkon 12 Nov 2018

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018

Almost half of U.S. seafood goes to waste

Rebecca Kessler 24 Sep 2015

Private sector innovations reduce food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 1 Jun 2015

Together we stand: A policy approach to reducing food loss in West Africa

Margaret Egbula 28 May 2015

West Africa’s weakest links: Supply chain defects are behind worst food waste

Margaret Egbula 19 May 2015

Food coating made with African ingredient aims to decrease food waste

Lois Parshley 13 May 2015

Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change

Rachel Cernansky 21 Apr 2015

Empowering women in order to save the harvest

Rachel Cernansky 16 Apr 2015

The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa

Rachel Cernansky 15 Apr 2015

Unique center trains Tanzanian farmers to preserve their fruits and veggies

Rachel Cernansky 14 Apr 2015

New solutions aim to deliver more grain from farm to table in sub-Saharan Africa

Rachel Cernansky 13 Apr 2015

2 prize-winning journalists will report on Amazon, 2 new prizes announced

Mongabay.org 1 Aug 2014

The beef with beef: how 12 strategies could drastically cut agricultural emissions

Jeremy Hance 25 Apr 2014

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