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Curing the Crisis: Food Scarcity for Ebola Survivors
Although there haven’t been new Ebola patients in Liberia since March 25th, that doesn’t mean the troubles for West Africans […]
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Category: SPECIAL REPORTING INITIATIVES
Biotechnology’s Role in Reducing Food Waste
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Margaret Egbula will explore the role of biotechnology in reducing food waste by developing crop varieties […]
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Photo Essay: Geopolitical pawns, the fishermen of Lý Sơn, Vietnam
The island of Lý Sơn sits a few miles off shore of the city of Da Nang and halfway down […]
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Storage Solutions: Partnerships in West Africa to Help Stem Harvest Loss
Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Margaret Egbula will report on storage solutions in West Africa in May of 2015. Solutions to […]
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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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Empowering women in order to save the harvest
On a hot weekend in February, Shamim Daudi sits down with farmer after farmer near Babati, Tanzania, to talk with […]
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ENSIA – Researchers build on age-old practices to reduce food loss in Africa
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Rachel Cernansky has published her article: Could traditional plants hold the secret to saving crops […]
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The crop-saving champion of Tanzania: Bertha Mjawa
In the late 1980s, Bertha Mjawa remembers seeing endless quantities of fruits and vegetables getting thrown out across Tanzania because […]
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Unique center trains Tanzanian farmers to preserve their fruits and veggies
Outside Halima Sama’s house, children run around the dirt compound, kicking up the dust that blankets the region during the […]
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Brazilian state won’t use new atlas to close Cerrado deforestation loophole
Farmers in north-central Brazil, where the savanna meets the Amazon rainforest, are clearing land at an unprecedented rate. The government […]
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Carbon storage goals and conservation collide in Brazilian Cerrado
Scientists are raising the alarm about the disparity between biodiversity goals and carbon goals in Brazil’s Cerrado. New research is […]
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New solutions aim to deliver more grain from farm to table in sub-Saharan Africa
Corn is an integral part of many meals in Tanzania and its neighboring East African countries. Ground, it makes a […]
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Tiny Opossum Could Be Farmers’ Friend
A small mammal that likes to feast on a soybean pest in Brazil’s Cerrado illustrates how preserving this savanna landscape […]
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – Farmers Urge Return of Jaguars to Protect Crops
Scientific American has published Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell’s piece on big cats could returning to Brazil’s grassland.
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Combating food waste in sub-Saharan Africa
At the bustling Kilombero wholesale produce market in the town of Arusha, Tanzania, traders sort hundreds of pounds of mangos […]
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Brazilian Cerrado farmers urge return of big cats for crop protection from peccaries
“Every year the group gets bigger and bigger, and every year the damage to the crop is greater,” said Peixoto, […]
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Little Brazilian opossum potentially farmers’ helper
Mongabay Special Reporting Initiative Fellow Brendan Borrell reports from the Brazilian Cerrado. Read the full story here.
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Could inland aquaculture help save the oceans and feed the world?
Mark Kwok has always loved the ocean. An avid diver and spear fisherman, he has travelled the planet in search […]
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Mega-dam creates uncertainty for Amazon city
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.
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Amazon fishermen fear impact of mega-dam
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.
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