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Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

PNG farmers use agroforestry to fight crop diseases and reduce labor

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 19 Dec 2018

Ethiopia: Khat farming threatens food security, biodiversity, women, and agroforestry

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 12 Dec 2018

‘We see its value’: Ugandan communities benefiting from agroforestry

Deusdedit Ruhangariyo 11 Dec 2018

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018

Agroforestry ‘home gardens’ build community resilience in southern Ethiopia

Tesfa-Alem Tekle 4 Dec 2018
One of the major goals of protected areas is to conserve biodiversity. Photo of knobbed hornbill by Rhett A. Butler.

Group helps illegal bird traders transition into different lines of business

Nadine Freischlad 3 Dec 2018
Dongria women from Hutesi village farm the slopes of the Niyamgiri hill range. Image by Indrajeet Rajkhowa.

Photos: Indian tribe revives heirloom seeds for health and climate security

Sonali Prasad 30 Nov 2018
Google Earth image of the Manambolo River Canyon.

The river of blood (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2018
Chocolate is wrapped in a cocoa tree leaf. Photo by Sarita Reed.

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

Sarita Reed, Vinícius Fontana 26 Nov 2018

Agroforestry supports food security and conservation in Papua New Guinea

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 26 Nov 2018

‘Punished’: Bolivian communities opposed to highway cry foul over neglect

Iván Paredes Tamayo 22 Nov 2018

Agroforestry saves soil and boosts livelihoods in Tajikistan

Daniyar Serikov 13 Nov 2018
A fishing boat in the town of Beheloke in southwestern Madagascar. Image by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Local fishers oppose $2.7 billion deal opening Madagascar to Chinese fishing

Edward Carver 5 Nov 2018

In a first, DRC communities gain legal rights to forests

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2018
A pile of shrimp in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies

Edward Carver, Will Fitzgibbon 11 Oct 2018

Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 5 Oct 2018

Traditional Kyrgyz walnut-apple forests provide map for sustainable future

Cholpon Uzakbaeva 27 Sep 2018

Agroforestry ‘a good investment’: Mongabay’s Washington Post op-ed (commentary)

Mongabay.com 18 Sep 2018

Farmers see promise and profit for agroforestry in southern Kenya

David Njagi 31 Aug 2018
Rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), the source of vinblastine and vincristine, compounds used to treat Hodgkin's disease

Bandits raid village near Madagascar park, killing conservation worker

Edward Carver 27 Aug 2018

‘Not doing anything is no longer acceptable’: Q&A with Alice Thomas, climate refugee expert

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Aug 2018

Forest communities pay the price for conservation in Madagascar

John Cannon 25 Jul 2018
Cyprien Miandrimanana, a botanist now leading efforts to protect Bongolava, quit his job with the Missouri Botanical Garden and moved back home to the area in hopes of stopping the destruction he saw on trips to visit his parents. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay.

Angry farmers set fire to offices of Madagascar eco group, gov’t agency

Rowan Moore Gerety 13 Jul 2018

Farmer-managed natural regeneration: the fastest way to restore trees to degraded landscapes?

Cathy Watson 29 Jun 2018

Primate-rich countries are becoming less hospitable places for monkeys, apes and lemurs

John Cannon 15 Jun 2018

To protect the Congolese peatlands, protect local land rights (commentary)

Bart Crezee 4 Jun 2018

Researchers propose framework for designing PES programs that better deliver socioeconomic benefits

Mike Gaworecki 24 May 2018

Agroforestry gives Kenyan indigenous community a lifeline

Sophie Mbugua 24 May 2018

Lessons for developing countries in expansion of Madagascar’s protected area network

Mike Gaworecki 21 May 2018

Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras

Monica Pelliccia 16 Apr 2018
Undifferentiated catch at a landing site in Karaikal, Tamil Nadu, India. Photo by Amanda Vincent/Project Seahorse.

‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent

Rebecca Kessler 27 Mar 2018

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