Agriculture

Agriculture

At the COP30 UN climate talks, negotiators are grappling with the climate impacts of food and agriculture and the promises of family farming.

Governments spend $2.6 trillion on agrochemical, fossil fuel and other environmentally harmful subsidies every year. Could we phase them out?

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.

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

Wheat is one of the world’s most important staple crops, but its cultivation often drives land degradation. Is sustainable wheat possible?

How can we produce maize and wheat more sustainably? Here’s what we learned at the FOLUR Regional Dialogue in Istanbul, Turkey.

Colombia and Brazil are the world’s most dangerous countries for environmentalists. Here’s how land defenders are defending themselves.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many girls don’t even make it to the end of primary school. One man is working to change that.

Seaweed isn’t just a superfood – it’s also being used to make everything from clothing and packaging to fertilizers and cattle feed.

Jobs are hard to come by in rural Nigeria. A group of women got together to change that with the help of an oft-forgotten fruit.

In this episode of Around the World in Eight Commodities we're looking at wheat.

In this episode of Around the World in Eight Commodities we're looking at coffee.

Women play a crucial but often underappreciated role in rice production. Here’s how we can make rice more gender-equitable.