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A fruit seller with peeled papaya in a market in Bangladesh.

Crop fields make way for profitable orchards in Bangladesh, imperiling food security

Abu Siddique 3 Sep 2024
The government has temporarily stopped Pacitan mining operations.

Polluting copper mine in Java suspended as farmers decry lost crops

Asad Asnawi 30 Aug 2024
A farmer walks with his cattle past agricultural farms.

Colombia’s coca substitution program failing to help farmers or slow deforestation

Aimee Gabay 9 Aug 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

It’s the bee’s needs: Study finds best plants for bee health, conservation

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

How agroecological cacao can save an endangered lion tamarin in southern Bahia

Elizabeth Oliveira 21 Jun 2024
A squash farmer next to his crops.

Bangladeshi farmers find zucchini’s high yields & low costs palatable

Farhana Parvin 9 May 2024
A farmer in a rice field.

Beneath the surface, a toxic tide threatens Bangladesh’s water lifeline

Mahadi Al Hasnat 28 Mar 2024
The PLTU 1 Indramayu, which previously used entirely coal, has now mixed it with biomass.

Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say

Rabul Sawal 25 Mar 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024
Tea pickers in Kenya.

Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await

Sean Mowbray 14 Mar 2024

Java rice farmers suffer crop failure as copper mine pollutes local irrigation

Asad Asnawi 11 Mar 2024
Rotten coffee in Jember as a result of the long drought in 2023.

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

Moh. Tamimi 26 Feb 2024
Coastal farmers are now farming sunflowers and benefiting from the alternative crop.

In Bangladesh, sunflower grows where other crops don’t amid increasing salinity

Farhana Parvin 31 Jan 2024
Marmi, a rice farmer, is monitoring the development of rice as the planting season approaches in Buru's Waeapo village.

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

Jaya Barends 25 Jan 2024
Farmers in Bihar, India, growing crops amidst solar panels.

We need a better understanding of how crops fare under solar panels, study shows

Ruth Kamnitzer 23 Jan 2024
A rice farmer

Prevention is best defense against Bangladesh crop diseases, researchers say

Farhana Parvin 15 Jan 2024
A woman prepares a field for paddy farming after harvesting foxtail millet.

Indigenous Gurung farmers revive climate-resilient millet in Nepal

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 1 Jan 2024
Wine bottles in a vineyard.

Some hemp with your wine? Study shows better soil, potentially flavors from intercropping

Sarah Derouin 19 Dec 2023

In Laos, forest loss and carbon emissions escalate as agriculture intensifies

Carolyn Cowan 12 Dec 2023
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023

Amid socioeconomic slump, new sugar cane varieties offer hope in Sri Lanka

Manasee Weerathunga 25 Oct 2023
A farmer holds green vegetables in his farm.

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Abu Siddique 28 Sep 2023
A farmer in a rice paddy field.

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

Claire Turrell 11 Aug 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 2023

Avocados: The green gold that wipes western Mexico’s forests from the map

Agustín del Castillo 16 Jun 2023
A black-shanked douc langur in a tree.

Can community payments with no strings attached benefit biodiversity?

John Cannon 13 Jun 2023
A girl with avocados

In Indonesia, clouds form over East Java’s promising band of avocado growers

Asad Asnawi 16 May 2023
Potato farmers at the foot of Mount Kerinci.

In Sumatra, potato appetite bites into a UNESCO-listed tiger haven

Teguh Suprayitno 8 May 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023

As crop-raiding animals reach an all-time high, food-crisis hit Sri Lanka looks for solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 21 Mar 2023
The daily livestock market in Lodwar, Turkana County's biggest business hub. Image by Kang-Chun Cheng.

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Kang-Chun Cheng 28 Feb 2023
Moringa stenopetala is a tree originally domesticated by Ethiopian and Kenyan farmers for its highly nutritious leaves. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Trees with edible leaves can boost human nutrition: New book, free download

Erik Hoffner 15 Feb 2023

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