Behind an airtight door, inside a warehouse 10 minutes walk from Bristol city centre, shelves of vibrant chives sprout enthusiastically towards a sky of multicoloured LEDs. The air they are…
Perhaps the most important of all environmental issues is land use. Every hectare of land we use for extractive industries is a hectare that can’t support wild forests, savannahs, wetlands, natural…
Ben Green doesn’t have to worry that Vladimir Putin might cut off Europe’s gas this winter, fret about a seasonal revival of Covid-19, or panic about a looming global food crisis.
Ireland has committed to a 25% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 2030 after a bitter political battle between farmers, business groups and environmentalists.
The coalition…
As climatic hazards take their toll on the arid rural areas of The Gambia, 34 solar irrigation systems will contribute to the resilience of 6 600 local farmers. This is an initiative of the UN Food…
Tesco and WWF have launched a new trial to offer UK dairy farmers subsidies that encourage growing feed more sustainably for their livestock.
The scheme was created to help reduce the environmental…
Ghanaian agri-tech startup DigiExt is helping farm cooperatives grow via a variety of tech-based platforms and then assisting them in selling their produce to processing companies and export agencies…
Exclusive: ‘Rapid transition to regenerative farming’ needed, says prince, as data reveals 100,000 UK farms lost since 1990.
The Prince of Wales has called for small family farmers in the UK and…
Improved agricultural practices and widespread irrigation may stave off another agricultural calamity in the Great Plains. But scientists are now warning that two inescapable realities — rising…
One of the major factors hindering productivity within Africa’s agricultural sector is the use of outdated production technologies and practices. This is where companies like Farmforte come in, by…
A farmer in Zimbabwe shares how an Oxfam initiative helped build resilience against the effects of changing rainfall patterns.
Sarah, 55, is a farmer in Nyanyadzi, Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. For nearly…
Research shows rising temperatures since 1960s have acted as handbrake to agricultural yield of crops and livestock.
The climate crisis is already eating into the output of the world’s agricultural…
A new study by the Met Office gives examples of how two of the UK’s most important farming sectors are likely to be impacted by climate change.
The study – published in Climate Risk Management –…
Over recent months Raja, a farmer in India's Tamil Nadu state, has had a change of routine.
Every few days, the 53-year-old leaves his 30-acre (12-hectare) farm in the Villupuram district — where he…
Kerala villagers are reaping the benefits of a scheme that pays them to leave their trees rooted, reducing risk of deforestation.
In the misty, hilly terrain of Wayanad, in the southern Indian state…
Study calls for more focus on farming and food waste, behind a third of greenhouse gas production.
Our diets and agricultural production around the world are so carbon-intensive that emissions from…
Western Nepal has suffered a long dry spell, harming rice harvests and pushing farmers across the border to seek work even amid the pandemic
NARAINAPUR, Nepal - As an exceptionally wet monsoon…
European parliament votes to continue payments to farmers with no green conditions attached.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish school strike pioneer and environmental activist, has accused MEPs of…
A growing movement for sustainable agriculture in Brazil has taken on new urgency with the coronavirus pandemic.
The cumaru trees could have been planted elsewhere in this Amazon reserve, where they…
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