Informal trade between African countries is greatly underestimated. A study of patterns across Benin’s borders helps fill the knowledge gap.
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Seems humans aren’t the only ones moving into cities in ever greater numbers.
A new report by the Migration Advisory Committee on the impact of EU migration on the UK has highlighted the reliance of farms on migrant labour.
Introducing yet another special agricultural employment visa might destroy the good things about the ones we’ve got.
As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit’s divisions.
Vertical farms grow more food but use much more energy, so let’s consider other kinds of urban agriculture.
The cruel link between economics and animal welfare.
Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.
Right now, you’re living in a kind of industrial revolution – where biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form synthetic biology.
Developing countries could leapfrog industrial agriculture systems by moving to agroecology.
Having an envoy for drought and a prime minister keen to visit drought-affected areas puts the government under pressure to do the wrong thing.
African countries need to urgently develop coherent and strategic policies around water, land and agriculture.
Big data can be used to properly advise smallholder farmers in Africa and help guide pest monitoring efforts.
A Land Degradation Surveillance framework could solve this problem by systematically measuring and tracking indicators of land health in Africa.
A new analysis explores what making space for nature means for our global food production systems.
Fields of sunflowers are now a common sight all over the world – but this has only been the case relatively recently.
Instructing farmers to keep their kids away from farm machinery doesn’t work to reduce traumatic injury. A recent research project tried listening instead.
The Ogalalla Aquifer is a vast underground lake that irrigates farms across the US Great Plains. It took thousands of years to fill, but human use could drain it in roughly a century.
South Africa’s constitution has been amended 17 times already. But, the procedure for doing so is onerous.
Food systems must be transformed to produce more nutritious food with a lower environmental footprint.
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