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A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024
Sumber Makmur Farmers’ Collective's seed nursery.

Sumatra coffee farmers brew natural fertilizer as inflation bites

Themmy Doaly 4 Jan 2024

For farmer imprisoned over wildfires, fear and poverty linger

Aseanty Pahlevi, Philip Jacobson, Hans Nicholas Jong 18 Dec 2023

Small farmers caught in Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Aseanty Pahlevi, Victor Fidelis Sentosa 14 Dec 2023

Traditional small farmers burned by Indonesia’s war on wildfires

Philip Jacobson, Aseanty Pahlevi, Hans Nicholas Jong, Yusie Marie, M Rahim Arza 14 Dec 2023

Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds

Orji Sunday 1 Dec 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

Investigation shows ‘shadow companies’ linked to Indonesia palm oil giant First Resources

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2023
A young boy tries to help a fallen donkey stand during a severe drought that struck the Horn of Africa.

Beyond Climate: Fossil fuels rapidly eroding Earth’s ‘safe operating space’

Sean Mowbray 15 Nov 2023
Workers clean an oil spill that has polluted a beach on Salamina Island, Greece.

Beyond climate: Oil, gas and coal are destabilizing all 9 planetary boundaries

Sean Mowbray 14 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
16 February, 2023 - Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession, Stung Treng Province (Cambodia). A timber processing facility and depot within the Sal Sophea Peanich economic land concession (8,645 hectares) that was issued in August 2005 as a rubber plantation. Satellite imagery reveals that clearing of a forested section adjacent to the depot started around October 2021. Image by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Calls grow to repurpose land squandered in Cambodia’s concession policy

Gerald Flynn 8 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Indonesia’s oil palm smallholders need both state and EU support (commentary)

Andre Barahamin 25 Oct 2023

Indonesia’s besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show

Morgan Erickson-Davis 19 Oct 2023

Plan to bring Mennonite farmers to Suriname sparks deforestation fears

Maxwell Radwin 9 Oct 2023
Members of Synaparcam, an association of communities affected by Socapalm holding a banner reading "YES to the respect of community rights" in French. Image courtesy Thierry Didier Kuicheu

Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia

Victoria Schneider 29 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
Protesting farmers on their way to the Hague in 2019.

The Dutch farmers’ protests of 2022: A Mongabay Series

Ashoka Mukpo 14 Sep 2023

Agro giant Cargill tied to deforestation in Bolivia’s Chiquitano forest

Maxwell Radwin 11 Sep 2023
In July 2021, the commercial propagation permit for Malusog Rice was granted, paving the way for its pilot-scale deployment in several provinces a year later.

Is the genetically modified, nutrient-rich Golden Rice as safe as promised?

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Sep 2023
A dairy cow in a farm in the Netherlands.

In the clash over Dutch farming, Europe’s future arrives

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Sep 2023

In the Netherlands, pitchforks fly for an empire of cows

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Sep 2023

Brazil cap-and-trade carbon framework in sight, but agriculture gets a pass

Sarah Brown 6 Sep 2023
cow in the netherlands wagenigen university dairy campus research facility

How manure blew up the Netherlands

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Sep 2023
Long-tailed macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Skepticism as Cambodia expands protected areas by more than a million hectares

Gerald Flynn 29 Aug 2023
A local community member who works at an oil palm plantation in Liberia pushing a cart of the harvest.

Investigation confirms most allegations against plantation operator Socfin

Victoria Schneider 11 Aug 2023
Along the Via Auca, it is common to find patches of deforested land that will later be planted with agricultural or agroforestry crops.

Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 8 Aug 2023
A farmer in Colombia checks her coffee bushes.

The circular economy: Sustainable solutions to solve planetary overshoot?

Sean Mowbray 27 Jul 2023
Syarak, the customary elder in Bumi Harapan, with his wife.

Elders call for Indigenous cultural preservation in new Indonesia capital

Muhammad Razil Fauzan 27 Jul 2023

What can solve growing conflicts between agricultural giants and communities in Cameroon?

Yannick Kenné 17 Jul 2023
A man drives a koy-yun loaded with logs through Choam village in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

Forests in the furnace: Cambodians risking life and liberty to fuel garment factories

Gerald Flynn & Andy Ball 13 Jul 2023

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