Food & Livelihoods

Food & Livelihoods

Every year, peat fires rage across Borneo – and these volunteer firefighters are tasked with tackling them without proper equipment.

Nauru was once the world’s second-richest country – until it ran out of phosphate. Can it recover from the resulting environmental damage?

Millions of refugees have fled civil war in Sudan since 2023. We met a few of them rebuilding their lives in neighboring South Sudan.

Crop wild relatives are our crops’ living ancestors. They underpin our food security in a warming world – but they’re also under threat.

In Kenya, smallholder coffee farmers are boosting their incomes through regenerative agriculture and Rainforest Alliance certification.

Palm oil is the biggest employer in Kalangala – but at what cost? These conservationists are turning to agroforestry to restore local soils.

The Caatinga is the largest semi-arid forest in South America – and Brazil’s most forgotten biome. Here’s how we can protect it.

On Tanzania’s Swahili coast, mangroves are dying out and seaweed production is declining – but local women’s groups are fighting back.

Outdoor workers, especially in the Global South, are working in dangerous conditions in extreme heat driven by climate change.

Stingless bees are a sign of forest health. One organization is recruiting them for honey – and protecting the Amazon in the process.

In 2024, disasters caused $140 billion in insured losses. Another $180 billion went uninsured – and that figure is only set to grow.

Indigenous women activists are at the heart of the global fight for climate justice. What can the world learn from them?

The Indigenous Xokleng people survived genocide under European colonial rule. Now, they’re embracing art as a form of resistance.

Salvador, Brazil, is the Blackest city outside Africa – but even here, Black communities are disproportionately affected by pollution.

Malawi is losing its culinary heritage to the climate crisis and the effects of globalization – but women and young people are resisting.