Keeping up with the climate: efforts to reduce African crop losses face the extra hurdle of climate change
Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to […]
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Farmers in tropical areas have long struggled to maximize their crop yields, but the strikes against them just continue to […]
Read more →On a hot weekend in February, Shamim Daudi sits down with farmer after farmer near Babati, Tanzania, to talk with […]
Read more →Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky has published her article: Could traditional plants hold the secret to saving crops […]
Read more →In the late 1980s, Bertha Mjawa remembers seeing endless quantities of fruits and vegetables getting thrown out across Tanzania because […]
Read more →Outside Halima Sama’s house, children run around the dirt compound, kicking up the dust that blankets the region during the […]
Read more →Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at an unprecedented rate. The government […]
Read more →Scientists are raising the alarm about the disparity between biodiversity goals and carbon goals in Brazil’s Cerrado. New research is […]
Read more →Corn is an integral part of many meals in Tanzania and its neighboring East African countries. Ground, it makes a […]
Read more →A small mammal that likes to feast on a soybean pest in Brazil’s Cerrado illustrates how preserving this savanna landscape […]
Read more →Scientific American has published Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell’s piece on big cats could returning to Brazil’s grassland.
Read more →At the bustling Kilombero wholesale produce market in the town of Arusha, Tanzania, traders sort hundreds of pounds of mangos […]
Read more →“Every year the group gets bigger and bigger, and every year the damage to the crop is greater,” said Peixoto, […]
Read more →Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports from the Brazilian Cerrado. Read the full story here.
Read more →Mark Kwok has always loved the ocean. An avid diver and spear fisherman, he has travelled the planet in search […]
Read more →The city of Itaituba, in western Pará state, is home to several construction projects of strategic interest for the Brazilian government. However, with local infrastructure fragile, residents are worried they will not share in the spoils.
Read more →The life of fisherman Rosinaldo Pereira dos Santos, generally known as Tatá, may take a very different direction from the one that the governments of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and President Dilma Rousseff have promoted through their social welfare programs. Living on the banks of the Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon, he has always had abundant food.
Read more →Over the next 18 months, Mongabay will commission scores of articles on fisheries from journalists across the globe, with a special focus on Indonesia, whose oceans span one eighth of the world’s circumference and whose new president seeks to strengthen the country’s identity as a “maritime nation.” These will examine a variety of aspects of the sector, many of which have not been closely considered.
Read more →Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative fellow and photographer Dominic Bracco II has published a slideshow titled: New practices in China’s ocean […]
Read more →Scientific American has published a sweeping piece on China’s impact on the world’s seafood resources. The article was produced by […]
Read more →Read the commentary by Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative fellow Erik Vance published by Scientific American.
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