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Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), Amazon, Brazil. Image by w_endo via iNaturalist.

Fishers fight for solutions as Brazil lists tambaqui as threatened

Karla Mendes 28 Jul 2026
A woman transports a catch of fish from a landing site in coastal Kenya to market. Image by Festo Lumwe/WorldFish.

Why Africa should link nutritional data with fisheries management (commentary)

Essam Yassin Mohammed 14 Jul 2026
An experimental line of orange corn enriched with provitamin A, harvested in Zambia. Photo by CIMMYT via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Zambia’s bumper harvest masks likely food insecurity amid geopolitics and climate threats

Chisapi Kumbutso 3 Jul 2026
Lentinus squarrosulus mushrooms. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Researchers in Nigeria successfully cultivate wild mushroom in agricultural waste

David Brown 3 Jul 2026
Four men stand in muddy water holding a brown fishnet full of fish.

Aquatic animal and terrestrial meat trades now almost on par, FAO report finds

Elizabeth Fitt 29 Jun 2026
A humpback whale fluke.

Protect Antarctic krill to preserve the health of Africa’s coastal communities (commentary)

Carmen dos Santos 17 Jun 2026

How one woman’s farm is a model for small-scale farmers in Malawi

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2026
Train hauling coal between Moatize and Nacala in 2018. Image by Matthias Hille via Wikicommons (CC BY 4.0)

Improved transport opens Mozambique’s forests to new pressures

Mkhululi Chimoio 11 Jun 2026
Residents in East Lombok plant mangroves. Image by Ahmad H. Ramdhani/Mongabay Indonesia.

In Indonesia’s Lombok, fishers find food security tied to mangrove reforestation

Ahmad H. Ramdhani 11 Jun 2026
Small children from Rira village stand by the roadside near their humble home.

New study suggests Ethiopia’s protected areas may be impacting local well-being

Solomon Yimer 10 Jun 2026
A woman holds up land tenure certificates in Chipata, Zambia (2017). Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Movement gives African rural women farmers a voice, but still battles landownership

Charles Mpaka 9 Jun 2026
Diane Sitima at her farm. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

In Malawi, one woman’s farm shows what’s possible with land and support

Charles Mpaka 4 Jun 2026

Wild animal consumption on the rise in Central Africa, study finds

David Akana 21 May 2026
A farmer collects dried salt from his field, carefully filling baskets to store them in nearby pits for processing.

Bangladesh salt farmers struggle as climate shifts disrupt harvests

Sifayet Ullah 20 May 2026
A boy gathers water in Kalokol, with submerged palm trees behind. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026
Fisherman James Lekubo on Lake Turkana. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei

Christopher Clark 19 May 2026
During prolonged floods, many residents of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta are unable to grow and harvest crops. NGOs have stepped in to help with basic food supplies and cash during times of crisis. Image courtesy of Anh Duong Community Development and Support Center.

The world’s great deltas are sinking — and with them, a global food system

Petro Kotzé 6 May 2026
A woman prepares food in her kitchen in a village in Dang.

In Nepal’s plains, traditional bins help keep food safe from heat, floods

Tanka Dhakal 4 May 2026
Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) feeding on seagrass. Image courtesy of Liam McGuire via Ocean Image Bank.

With its first marine reserve, Ghana protects its ocean to secure its future (commentary)

Emelia Arthur 4 May 2026
A farmer in south-central Bangladesh uses an axial flow pump to irrigate his rice field.

Bangladesh struggles to choose between food security & stable groundwater table

Abu Siddique 30 Apr 2026
Raw and cooked orb-weaver spiders

‘Creamy, nutty’ spiders are protein source for Indigenous Indian tribe

Megan Strauss 30 Apr 2026
Lizulu Market in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe

Strait of Hormuz crisis should catalyze African biofertilizer production (commentary)

Susan Chomba 16 Apr 2026
Cape Three Points village, Ghana. Image by Tini Maier via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Ghana declares its first marine protected area

Victoria Schneider 14 Apr 2026
Kute Hero (right) abandoned his traditional pastoralist livelihood for fishing after most of his livestock perished during a severe drought. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

In northern Kenya, a shifting Lake Turkana reshapes traditional livelihoods

Christopher Clark 14 Apr 2026
Nickel mining on Manuran Island. Image courtesy of Auriga Nusantara.

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Apr 2026
The only water left for human and livestock to share in Berano Wereda, Homay Kebele of Ethiopia's Somali region. Image by © FAO/Michael Tewelde.

‘Sharing is off the table’ as drought reshapes the culture of Ethiopia’s pastoralists

Kaleab Girma 1 Apr 2026
Researcher Lisiane Hahn and colleagues have tagged and released piraíba fitted with tracking devices, generating new data that reveal previously undocumented migrations of this South American species. Image courtesy of Lisiane Hahn.

325 Long-neglected migratory freshwater fish species need protection now: Report

Stefan Lovgren 25 Mar 2026
A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ship.

Shipping’s biofuel gamble could deepen Africa’s land squeeze and food insecurity (commentary)

Susan Chomba, Million Belay 20 Mar 2026

Glyphosate found in South African baby cereal; watchdog group calls for ban

Elodie Toto 16 Mar 2026
The city of Porto Alegre is flooded after heavy rain in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil is both the world’s environmental treasure and its most exposed victim (commentary)

Robert Muggah, Igor Oliveira 16 Mar 2026
A maize field cultivated using agroecology concepts.

In Malawi, farmers rebuild soil and livelihoods through agroecology

Kelvin Tembo 9 Mar 2026
Man spraying pesticides in woods. Image by Gilmer Diaz Estela via Pexels.

Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets: Study

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2026

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