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A coffee farmer carries saplings.

Companies eye ‘carbon insetting’ as winning climate solution, but critics are wary

Ian Morse 13 Mar 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
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
People in San Juan Raya decided to join a research project to grow agave for mezcal sustainably. Image by Noel Rojo for Mongabay.

Amid global mezcal craze, scientists and communities try out sustainable plantations

Magdaléna Rojo 10 Feb 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
Karst mountain in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forest carbon offsets are a tool, not a silver bullet (commentary)

Robert Nasi and Pham Thu Thuy 7 Feb 2023

Colombia’s ‘tree of life’ births a new culinary and conservation movement

Ocean Malandra 23 Jan 2023
A U.S. agroforestry based farm shows rows of perennial shrubs and trees with annual crops growing between. Photo courtesy of the Savanna Institute.

‘One of our greatest climate solutions’: Q&A with the U.S. National Agroforestry Center’s new director

Sarah Derouin 19 Jan 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023
A man planting a tree.

Dollars and chainsaws: Can timber production help fund global reforestation?

Gianluca Cerullo 5 Jan 2023
Aerial photo of gold mining.

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2022

Alexandra Popescu 29 Dec 2022
Fire fighters putting out forest fire in Riau, Indonesia.

As dry season looms, Sumatra villagers hope their peat restoration pays off

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Dec 2022
seedling

Mexican restoration dominated by non-environmental interests

Dimitri Selibas 22 Dec 2022
cocoa beans

Amazon-produced cacao offers climate solutions

Miguel Pinheiro 15 Dec 2022
Daniel Berkembrock.

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Avener Prado, Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie 9 Dec 2022
11. Alda prepares branches of wild rosemary (Baccharis dracunculifolia) to use as a duster to keep bees away during handling. An essential plant for bees, the wild rosemary also has a great capacity for regeneration and can be successfully used in the recovery of degraded areas. Lar de Pesquisas Agroecológicas Abacateiro, Egídio Brunetto Agroecological Settlement, Lagoinha, Paraíba Valley, Brazil. Image by Inaê Guion.

Photos: Newcomer farmers in Brazil embrace bees, agroforestry and find success

Inaê Guion 2 Dec 2022

Indigenous cooperative restores forests to form ecological corridor in Bahia

Sibélia Zanon 25 Nov 2022
Plantation of bananas, teak and cocoa in Yanonge – DRC.  Photo by Axel Fassio/CIFOR-ICRAF via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Can a luxury chocolate company help a Congolese forest?

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 16 Nov 2022
Millet harvest in the Nyando climate-smart villages.

Breaking free from photosynthesis: Will high-tech foods save nature?

Sue Branford 11 Nov 2022
Farmers with their crop.

Agroecology can feed Africa and tackle climate change — with enough funding

Malavika Vyawahare 7 Nov 2022

At the mouth of the Amazon, sustainable açaí leaves a sweet taste for communities

Carolina Pinheiro 3 Nov 2022

Who decides on ‘priorities’ for ecosystem restoration?

John Cannon 2 Nov 2022
A handful of hazelnuts harvested by Nutwood Farm co-owner Kalyan Uprichard. Photo by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay.

American agroforestry accelerates with new funding announcements

Erik Hoffner 31 Oct 2022
Bôndy nurserymen tending to young eucalyptus

In Madagascar, a tree-planting business goes long on social, short on eco

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 10 Oct 2022

In Brazil’s Ribeira Valley, traditional communities combine farming and conservation

Sibélia Zanon 29 Sep 2022

Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo

Sarjan Lahay 15 Sep 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
A farmer shows a salak variant

In Bali, snakefruit farmers hope agroforestry bears fruit as island reopens

Luh de Suryani 1 Sep 2022
A turquoise tanager

Venezuelan Amazon deforestation expands due to lawlessness, mining, fires: Reports

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 31 Aug 2022
field

Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature

Dimitri Selibas 19 Aug 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

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