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Member of the Akilimali women association in her farming plot in Yanonge, DRC. Image by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

DRC food sovereignty summit yields support for agroecology, local land rights

Elodie Toto 7 Sep 2023
Fishing boats in the Sundarbans.

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Farhana Parvin 1 Sep 2023
Termitomyces schimperi (called othepo in Lomwé) for sale at the Gilé market.

Wild mushroom harvest helps keep trees standing in Mozambique

Ryan Truscott 1 Sep 2023

Transgenics contaminate a third of Brazil’s traditional corn in semiarid region

Adriana Amâncio 1 Sep 2023
Maize near Yangambi, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Agroecology alliance calls for more food at less cost to nature in Congo Basin

Elodie Toto 28 Aug 2023
Wheat field in Kansas. Image by Lane Pearman via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Getting the bread: What’s the environmental impact of wheat?

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2023
A farmer in a rice paddy field.

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

Claire Turrell 11 Aug 2023
A Brazil nut.

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for August 2023

Mongabay.com 7 Aug 2023
Indigenous farmer Leopoldo Lebuna weeds his lowland farm

In Philippines, climate change tests Indigenous farming like never before

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 4 Aug 2023
A group of UM6P scientists take a visiting forestry scientist from Penn State University on a tour of the experimental farm in Ben Guerir.

Morocco rolls out a phosphorous-fueled plan to heal soils across Africa

Marlowe Starling 31 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

Scientists: Fishing boats compete with whales and penguins for Antarctic krill

Francesco De Augustinis 19 Jul 2023
The Txori Argi fishing trawler in port.

West African fishers strike for fair wages and ‘respect’ on EU-owned vessels

Malavika Vyawahare 18 Jul 2023

Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory

Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia 13 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
Two striped snakeheads mating.

Bangladesh ramps up freshwater fish conservation in bid for food security

Farhana Parvin 4 Jul 2023

Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo/O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
Serge in a greenhouse.

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

Áine Donnellan 29 Jun 2023

Brazil nut harvesting proves a win-win for forest and community livelihood

Carolina Pinheiro 29 Jun 2023

In the land of honey and nuts: Indigenous solutions to save Brazil’s Cerrado

Elizabeth Oliveira 27 Jun 2023
Fish farm in Saronic Gulf, off the Greek coast.

At sea as on land? Activists oppose industrial farming in U.S. waters

Edward Carver 26 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 black soldier fly.

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

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023
Tana is his field.

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

Charles Mpaka 7 Jun 2023
A green sea turtle.

A Southeast Asian marine biodiversity hotspot is also a wildlife trafficking hotbed

Keith Anthony S. Fabro 7 Jun 2023
Sloth bears are attracted to the garbage dumps

Mongabay’s What-to-Watch list for June 2023

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2023

In Senegal, rice intensification helps farmers grow more with less

Noah Tobias 30 May 2023
Yellowfin tuna catch laid out on leaves.

As one Indian Ocean tuna stock faces collapse, nations scramble to save others

Malavika Vyawahare 29 May 2023

Illegal trawling ravages Tunisian seagrass meadows crucial for fish

Sara Manisera | Davide Mancini | Arianna Poletti 24 May 2023

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