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Climate change agricultural impacts to heighten inequality: Study

Claire Asher 13 Dec 2021
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Dec 2021

An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience

Sahana Ghosh 13 Dec 2021
Melanesia tropical fruits

Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes

Carolyn Cowan 6 Dec 2021
Brazil nut collecting in the Zoró Indigenous Land, MT

For Indigenous Zoró, the Brazil nut is a weapon against deforestation

Isabel Harari, Jaqueline Deister 3 Dec 2021

Climate change means hunger in our communities, African women leaders at COP26

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Nov 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021

Under Bolsonaro, Indigenous Yanomami see surge in child malnutrition deaths

Rafael Oliveira, Agência Pública 8 Nov 2021

In China, agroforestry serves up tea with a spoonful of sustainability

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 8 Nov 2021

Brazil’s Indigenous Xavante strangled by agribusiness, slammed by COVID-19

Fabio Zuker, InfoAmazonia, Tatiana Merlino, from O Joio e O Trigo 4 Nov 2021

Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field for traditional coastline communities

Gladstone Taylor 18 Oct 2021

Forests falling for cashew monocultures: A ‘repeated mistake’ in Côte d’Ivoire (commentary)

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

Brazil farming co-op carves a sustainable path through agribusiness stronghold

Shanna Hanbury 11 Oct 2021
Soy-forest boundary. Photo credit: Mighty Earth

Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates? (commentary)

Nico Muzi 7 Oct 2021

In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future

Aurora Solá 5 Oct 2021

Children born in 2020 will see spike in climate disasters, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 30 Sep 2021
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

New permits for Brazilian beef exports to US could increase deforestation risk: Report

Maxwell Radwin 27 Sep 2021
A farmer uses a manure spreader as a natural fertilizer. An excess of manure from livestock produces an excess of ammonia, a harmful nitrogen emission. Image by CityofGeneva via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Nitrogen: The environmental crisis you haven’t heard of yet

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Sep 2021
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Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

Carolyn Cowan 20 Sep 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021
Flooded forest in the Amazon

We’ve crossed four of nine planetary boundaries. What does this mean?

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Sep 2021

In Kenya, push-pull method tries to debug organic farming’s pest problem

David Njagi 8 Sep 2021
Rusting fishing trawler Fu Hai Yu 1111 in Sierra Leonean Waters. Image by Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace

Industrial fishing harbor plan raises a stink in Sierra Leone

Mohamed Fofanah 7 Sep 2021

Amazon, meet Amazon: Tech giant rolls out rainforest carbon offset project

Juliana Ennes 7 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
Cow in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Though nefarious, Russian hack of JBS should prompt environmental debate over meat “oligopoly” (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 25 Aug 2021

Scientists look to wheatgrass to save dryland farming and capture carbon

Sarah Derouin 18 Aug 2021

X-Press Pearl sinking shines a light on seafood safety in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 17 Aug 2021
Growing agave in Mexico

Mexico devises revolutionary method to reverse semiarid land degradation

Sue Branford 11 Aug 2021

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