Essay: Kakhovka Dam breach in Ukraine caused economic, agricultural and ecological devastation that will last for years
SUSANNE WENGLE and VITALII DANKEVYCH – in an article first published on The Conversation – look at the impact of the dam breach and subsequent flooding last month…
Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine’s breadbasket
ROD NICKEL, of Reuters, reports on the damage being done to previously fertile farmland in Ukraine…
TURNING DESERTS INTO FARMLAND: HOW AN AUSTRALIAN AGRONOMIST HAS EMPLOYED AN ANCIENT FARMING PRACTICE TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF MILLIONS
DAVID ADAMS speaks to World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo, named last week as one of the winners of this year’s “alternative Nobel Prize”, the Right Livelihood Awards, about his passion for turning deserts into farmland…
As fruit trees fall, a hunger threat looms in Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation When Leah Mutembei was growing up in Kajuki, a village in central Kenya, most farms were dotted with avocado and mango trees. “But now they have all gone,” the 32-year-old maize farmer said from her homestead, gesturing to the barren land nearby. “We had to cut them to make firewood and charcoal,” […]