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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
Tiger in India. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

As in India, tigers in Nepal may seek refuge in sugarcane fields

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Aug 2024
Women farmers in Chad face challenges from climate change and land conflicts. Image by Robert Bociaga.

Resilient women farmers in Chad battle climate challenges and social barriers

Robert Bociaga 29 Aug 2024
Farmers on rice terraces in Bali.

In Bali, water temple priests guide a sustainable rice production system

Elizabeth Sinclair 26 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 farmer applies biochar in the field.

Biochar could play big role in Bhutan’s carbon storage — but it’s news to farmers

Choki Wangmo 24 Jul 2024

‘Extinct’ trees found in Tanzania spark hope for ecosystem recovery

Ryan Truscott 16 Jul 2024
Harare locals visit the Mbare Agricultural Market to buy fresh fruit and vegetables. Photo by: Charles Dhewa.

African markets tackle food insecurity and climate change — but lack investment

Aimee Gabay 16 Jul 2024
Morchella esculenta mushrooms, locally called gucchi.

Traditional foods have the potential to help Kashmir communities adapt to climate change: study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 16 Jul 2024

In a desertscape in Brazil, science brings farms to bountiful life

Rafael Martins 16 Jul 2024
Farmer Florence Ochieng harvests green maize in Trans-Nzoia, Kenya.

Kenyan farmers turn to WhatsApp & AI tools to combat crop diseases

Juliet Akoth Ojwang 27 Jun 2024
A coffee farmer in Colombia.

‘Water grabs’ pose big threat to farmers amid water crises

Aimee Gabay 21 Jun 2024
Water scarcity has been a problem for Xochimilco residents for a long time, even before the recent drought, due to the overexploitation of its aquifers that supply neighboring urban areas and megaprojects.

Photos: Exploring Mexico City’s Aztec-era farms, the chinampas

Aimee Gabay 19 Jun 2024

Landmark ruling in Suriname grants protections to local and Indigenous communities — for now

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

An ancestral solution ensures water for Peruvian alpaca farmers, but is it enough?

Elizabeth Salazar Vega 30 May 2024
Coffee beans on a plant.

As coffee expands in Bangladesh hills, conservationists worry about ecosystems

Abu Siddique 21 May 2024

‘Weather whiplash’ cycles of floods & droughts imperil Nigerian farming

Tarinipre Francis 15 May 2024

NZ funding helps Indigenous farmers in Indonesia protect forests, boost incomes

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 May 2024
A squash farmer next to his crops.

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

Farhana Parvin 9 May 2024
Electric irrigation pump in a paddy field in Chuadanga, Bangladesh.

Rocky rollout for Bangladesh’s ambitious solar-powered irrigation plans

Abu Siddique 6 May 2024

Etelvina Ramos: From coca farmer to opponent of the illegal crop

Diana María Pachón 26 Apr 2024
Farming in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand limits agricultural land sales amid protests & tourism development

Swati Thapa 22 Apr 2024
A tapir amid a harvested cornfield in northern Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil, in a transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon.

Tapirs in Brazil’s Cerrado inspire research on human health & pesticides

Michael Esquer 10 Apr 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal

Annelise Giseburt 10 Apr 2024

Spotted softshell turtle release boosts reptile conservation in Vietnam

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2024

Brazil’s Cerrado is main beneficiary of 2021 pledge to end deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Apr 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
A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie and Rodrigo Pedroso and Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024
Kouanda Issiaka watering his mango plantation for extra income in Boromo, Burkina Faso.

Report calls for agroecological rethink of Africa’s food amid $61b industrial plan

Aimee Gabay 7 Mar 2024
Breadfruit trees produce large, potato-like fruits.

Breadfruit’s low carbon storage could be offset by fast growth, study finds

Claudia Geib 5 Mar 2024

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