05/18/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

For drought relief, Cordilleran women in the Philippines rely on seed saving

BENGUET, Philippines — Anita Sinakay grew up with her farmer parents saving seeds, a practice she continues now that she has her own farm. Today, Sinakay heads the Benguet Association of Seed Savers (BASS), a group of organic farmers that was formed pre-pandemic to revive the dying practice of saving seeds among agricultural Indigenous groups […]

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05/18/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

Each morning, as Luis Arrieta heads out to begin work on his shade-grown coffee farm, vindication comes in the form of birdsong gushing from the trees, a cacophony of trills and warbles of passerines punctuated by the croaks of the groove-billed toucanet (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus). “It’s one of the rewards of my job,” he says. An […]

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04/30/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Nitrogen pollution from agriculture and human waste, along with other pollutants including plastics, could make clean water scarce in many watersheds worldwide, potentially contributing to declines in public health.

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03/26/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras

Ivis Rene Cabrera no longer gazes up at the sky in hopes of rain to irrigate his field. He’s come to expect the long dry spells as northwestern Honduras grapples with increasingly longer periods of drought during the dry season. Now, he and the rest of the Indigenous Tolupan community’s gaze is to the ground. […]

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03/22/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

A machine learning model of ammonia emissions from the world’s rice, wheat and corn crops shows that optimal fertilizer management could slash ammonia air pollution from these crops by 38%.

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03/05/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

Harsh dry season sours harvest prospects for Java coffee farmers

JEMBER, Indonesia — In good weather, Saturi’s coffee field here on a hillside on the east of Indonesia’s Java Island will produce around 2.5 metric tons of coffee beans over the course of a season. This year, he expects to get less than a ton. “The weather has meant there have been a lot of […]

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01/22/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

The future of forest carbon credits and voluntary markets

This is the fifth article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. In the view of many experts and observers, the voluntary carbon trade faces a set of divergent possibilities for its future, and a marked change seems imminent after […]

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01/04/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?

This is the first article in our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary market. Read Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five later this month. At the outset of 2023, the voluntary carbon trade seemed poised to expand its reach, boosting the amount of carbon it sought to offset along […]

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06/21/2023 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com

For Tanzania’s traditional beekeepers, modern hives just don’t buzz

Tanzania is Africa’s second-biggest producer of honey, and to get it to the next level, the country’s government and aid agencies want beekeepers to adopt hanging-frame beehive designs to increase their production and income. But beekeepers have been reluctant to abandon their traditional hives made from hollow logs. What do they know that the technical […]

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