Improving tenure in the Amazon basin can lower deforestation rates and biodiversity loss. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean are the best guardians of their forests when compared to those…
Groundwater is essential for Indian agriculture and rural livelihoods, but groundwater levels are declining. Simply providing canal irrigation as a substitute irrigation source will likely not be enough to maintain…
Making agriculture climate friendly by offsetting agricultural emissions could hardly be an option for low-income countries, researchers say. People who spend most of their income on food would be mostly affected by a…
Removing wild meat from food systems could create risks for nature and for human health. Expanding animal agriculture to replace wild meat could increase biodiversity loss, according to experts.
Climate plantations can contribute to achieving the Paris climate goals. Carbon dioxide is captured in biomass plantations and subsequently stored in the soil (Carbon Capture and Storage – CCS). However, bioenergy from…
Africa is not on track to achieve zero hunger by 2030. African leaders discussed the transformative actions and investments required for Africa to build forward better from the COVID-19 crisis.
Globally, women are still highly underrepresented in countries’ parliaments, UN Women states on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Moreover, inequality between women and men is expected to rise due to ongoing…
The scale of the climate plantations mentioned in every second scientific scenario to achieve the Paris Agreement is unrealistic and misleading, researchers warn.
Extensive aquaculture areas along coasts are very common in Southeast Asia. Their wastewater secretes nitrogen into the coastal sea, disturbing the species balance in these ecosystems.
New COVID variants have been detected In several African countries, and in all these countries, the pandemic is spreading faster in the second wave than in the first one. Now, Africa is getting ready to roll out COVID-19…
A coalition of private and public actors from all parts of the agricultural value chain have committed to the protection of biodiversity and the development of sustainable agricultural sectors.
Pesticides which are banned in the EU are still being exported to countries outside the EU, and often there is a lack of adequate information and transparency. A new EU study provides an overview of the situation.
Representatives from German and African agribusiness, consultancy and politics discussed further progress in the African agrifood sector at the German-African Agribusiness Forum.
About 300 million families rely on small ruminants as a source of food and income. The small ruminant plague Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) threatens their livelihoods and causes economic losses up to USD 2.1 billion…
10 Years of ProSoil: Sharing knowledge on good practices in soil protection and rehabilitation through the WOCAT Global Database on Sustainable Land Management
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