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Mining Saps a Thirsty Desert
Local communities fear mining projects will heighten the southern Gobi desert's water shortage and threaten livestock. Credit: Linh Vien Thai /CC-BY-ND-2.0The Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in the...
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Goat Farming, a Growing Alternative in Cuba’s Reform Process
Goats like the ones raised on the Carolina farm are becoming an increasingly frequent source of income and food in Cuba. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPS Goat farming is becoming popular among farmers...
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Will Prayers Save Farmers in the Land of the Gods?
Melting glaciers are wreaking havoc in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPSOver a month after flash floods in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in north India left 1,000 dead...
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Drugmakers Agree to U.S. Ban on Livestock Antibiotics
Livestock production has long been suspected as a key incubator of antibiotic resistance in the United States. Credit: BigstockBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Mar 27 2014 (IPS) Pharmaceutical companies...
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South Sudan, Where Livestock Outnumbers People and the Environment Suffers
A member of the Mundari tribe stands amongst cattle in Terekeka, South Sudan. Livestock outnumber the population in South Sudan and has led to increasing environmental degradation. Credit: Jared...
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Hotter Caribbean Poses Challenges for Livestock Farmers
These goats in the Caribbean seek out shade in a bid to ward off heat stress that is driving up livestock mortality rates in the region. Credit: Cedric Lazarus/FAOBy Jewel FraserPARAMARIBO, Suriname,...
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Empower Rural Women for Their Dignity and Future
A woman planting a shea tree in Ghana to protect riverbanks, and for her economic empowerment. Much still remains to be done to overcome the difficulties women – particularly rural women – face in...
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High-Tech to the Rescue of Southern Africa’s Smallholder Farmers
The Dube AgriZone facility currently incorporates 16 hectares of greenhouses, making it the largest climate-controlled growing area under glass in Africa. Credit: FAOBy Kwame BuistDURBAN, South Africa,...
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Earthquakes Don’t Kill, Buildings Do – Or Is It Inequity?
70-year-old Chiute Tamang, his wife, daughter and son-in-law lost their house when the earth shook on Apr 25, 2015 in Nepal. They now lives a one-room cabin made of a wooden skeleton encased in...
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Goats Take the Bite Out of Climate Change in Zimbabwe
Many Zimbabweans are turning to raising small livestock like goats which survive dry conditions to avert climate change impacts that have claimed their cattle over the years. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPSBy...
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Kenyan Pastoralists Fighting Climate Change Through Food Forests
Sipian Lesan, a semi-nomadic pastoralist from Lekuru village in Samburu County, Kenya, taking care of one of his edible fruit-producing plants. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPSBy Robert KibetSAMBURU, Kenya,...
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Unique Alliance Between Gauchos and Environmentalists Protects Argentina’s...
By Fabiana FrayssinetBUENOS AIRES, Aug 7 2015 (IPS)The traditions of Argentina’s gauchos or cowboys have joined together with modern agricultural technology in a unique alliance between stockbreeders...
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Climate Change Shrinking Uganda’s Lakes and Fish
Studies show that indigenous fish species in Uganda – here being caught on Lake Victoria – have shrunk in size due to an increase in water temperature as a result of climate change. Credit: Wambi...
View ArticleAfrican Experts Say the Continent Must Address Livestock Methane Emissions
Increasing calls for Africa to reduce methane emissions from livestock continue to be met with controversy, and livestock scientists say methane is a forgotten short-term climate pollutant with...
View ArticleZimbabweans Align with Climate-Smart Agriculture Amid Food Deficits
With droughts wreaking havoc in vast areas of Zimbabwe, a majority of people here are fast falling in line with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as food deficits continue. CSA is the agricultural...
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Hail to the Cowpea: a Blue Ribbon for the Black-Eyed Pea
Nteranya Sanginga is the Director General of the International Institute of Tropical AgricultureBy Nteranya SangingaIBADAN, Nigeria, Jan 5 2016 (IPS)2016 is the International Year of Pulses, and we at...
View ArticleLivestock – Opportunity and Threat for a Sustainable Latin America
Stockbreeding generates enormous profits in Latin America, but it also has a broad and varied impact on the environment, which means it must urgently be turned into a sustainable, green-friendly,...
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