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Pan-fried shea nuts. Image by Pat Robert Larubi for Mongabay.

Uganda community group restores shea groves and livelihoods

Sam Schramski and Pat Larubi 10 Feb 2025
A woman stands in a field, waist-deep in the green of her crops, trees visible in the background. Image by Pat Larubi for Mongabay.

Shea’s silent guardians restore Uganda’s traditional parklands

Sam Schramski and Pat Larubi 7 Feb 2025
A trash picker looks for recyclable plastics at a waste dump in Bali. Image by Jonas Gratzer for Mongabay.

In the battle against plastic pollution, Asia’s informal workers are critical allies (commentary)

Annerieke Douma 2 Oct 2024
A vegetable grower using agroecological methods in Boung Phao Village, Lao PDR. Photo: Asian Development Bank, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Global ‘Slow Food’ movement embraces agroecology (commentary)

Edward Mukiibi 24 Sep 2024
A coral reef off the coast of Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua province, Indonesia. Image courtesy of Ronal Mambrasar/Konservasi Indonesia.

$35m debt-for-nature deal aims to protect Indonesia’s coral reefs

M Ambari 30 Aug 2024
Building a pergola at the entrance to the Cocotá Agroforest, 2023. Image courtesy of Cocotá Agroforest collective.

Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities

Bernardo Araujo 13 Aug 2024
Agroforestry products Thailand

Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan 31 Jul 2024
Trainee Ossam Bassam fishing at sea for the first time.

Lebanese youths take up rods and reels to learn sustainable fishing

Amélie David 27 Mar 2024
A photo of dead fish on the shores of lake Ambavarano.

Fish deaths near Rio Tinto mine in Madagascar dredge up community grievances

Malavika Vyawahare 16 May 2023
Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus). Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

It’s time to embrace community-led conservation vs. the colonial kind (commentary)

Audrey Moreng 15 May 2023
The QMM mine is on a peninsula near Fort-Dauphin in Madagascar. Image via Rio Tinto website.

Rio Tinto must repair the damage caused by their Madagascar mine (commentary)

Ketakandriana Rafitoson 28 Apr 2023
A farmer embracing agroecological approaches in Haiti. Photo credit: Ben Depp

Agroecology is a poverty solution in Haiti (commentary)

Cantave Jean-Baptiste, Steve Brescia 6 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
Humboldt penguins in Peru. Image by Víctor Bautista via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Chile’s denial of Dominga port project is a just energy transition victory and lesson (commentary)

Daniel Gajardo 24 Jan 2023

Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future

Andrew Johnson 12 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023
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With fracking promising a quick energy boost, can Colombia say no?

Dimitri Selibas 11 Oct 2022
At the beginning of the pandemic, MST launched an ongoing national campaign to take food from the settlements to vulnerable populations in cities. Here, a farmer delivers food to the collection center organized by ELAA for people living in the outskirts of the state capital, Curitiba. Image courtesy of Wellington Lenon/ELAA.

‘Viable, just & necessary’: Agroecology is a movement in Brazil

Anna Lappé 13 Sep 2022
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Let it grow: Q&A with reforestation and land restoration visionary Tony Rinaudo

Erik Hoffner 17 Aug 2022

Farmer-to-farmer agroecology: Q&A with Chukki Nanjundaswamy of Amrita Bhoomi Learning Centre

Anna Lappé 3 Aug 2022
A member of the Bhimeshwori Sustainable Farming Group at her agroforestry farm in Kavre, Nepal. Image by Abhaya Raj Josh / Mongabay.

Return to agroforestry empowers women in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 8 Jul 2022

Does citizen ownership of natural resources hold the key to realizing deforestation commitments? (commentary)

Han Overman 6 Jun 2022

Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)

Nicholas J. Parkinson 12 May 2022
Professional hunter (left) with a hunting guest (right) in Namibia. Image by Mikael Tham via Wikidmedia Commons.

Reframing trophy hunting’s socio-economic benefits in Namibia (commentary)

Frowin Becker 28 Apr 2022

Donors must rethink Africa’s flagging Green Revolution, new evaluation shows (commentary)

Timothy A. Wise 22 Mar 2022

NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo

John Cannon 17 Mar 2022

Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah

John Cannon 10 Feb 2022

Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal

John Cannon 17 Dec 2021
primary forest in Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, by John C. Cannon/Mongabay

Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about

John Cannon 9 Nov 2021

Plantation giant Socfin accused of dodging taxes in Africa

Ashoka Mukpo 21 Oct 2021

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

Cathy Watson 13 Oct 2021

For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience

Monica Pelliccia 29 Sep 2021

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