6 April 2017
Next time you bite into a chocolate bar, think of Africa. The continent produces nearly 70 percent of the world’s cocoa, a growing output that requires carving more than 325,000 acres of new farmland from forests every year – a drop in the bucket of overall agricultural expansion there.
17 March 2017
In almost every aisle of the grocery store, you can find products from the palm oil, soy, wood, and cattle industries. Together, these industries are responsible for more than a third of tropical deforestation annually, according to the non-profit organization Forest Trends. While strides have been
21 February 2017
By: Adisti Sukma Sawitri
Date: 21 February 2017
Source: The Jakarta Post
The government has made a bold move with its plan to grant people wider access to land under its agrarian reform.
16 February 2017
Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change the law and let foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners.
"We will announce the changes in the next 30 days," Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said on Wednesday night in
8 February 2017
By: Sue Branford and Maurício Torres
Date: 8 February 2017
Source: Mongabay
The majority of small-scale farmers have no legal access to water
India: How climate-smart agriculture is crucial for India's food security at a time of farm distress
By: G Seetharaman
Date: May 8th 2016
Source: The Economic Times
By: Timothy A. Wise, Food Tank
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Satellites provide a wealth of information about our planet’s resources. NASA’s Landsat satellite, for example, produces images that can be analyzed by complex algorithms to calculate areas of forest loss with greater precision than ever before. These advances allow Global Forest Watch to create an
By:Desalegne Tadesse
Date: Wednesday 9 June 2016
Source: IWMI
Investments in land and water are critical
The DFID-funded LEGEND (Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development) programme is commissioning a State of the Debate report on "Promoting More Inclusive Business Models in Agriculture". The LEGEND Core Land Support Team (CLST) is looking to contract one or more experts to prepare this
By: Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Upsidedownworld.org
This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone, with more than 20 government officials, economic development professionals, peasant farmers, and community organizers, between July 2015