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A dramatic surge in global chocolate prices has sparked an environmental emergency in southeastern Liberia, where nearly 50,000 migrant workers from neighboring Côte d’Ivoire have flooded into Grand Gedeh county to establish cacao plantations, according to a new Mongabay investigation.…
In the drought-stricken grasslands of Senegal, a centuries-old herding tradition is getting a dramatic makeover. Village chief Ibrahima Ka is leading his community in Thignol through the country’s first experiment with “mob grazing” – a technique that packs hundreds of…
A devastating fungal disease that has plagued cassava crops across Southeast Asia for over a decade has now jumped continents, threatening food security in South America. In 2023, smallholder farmers in French Guiana first noticed their once-thriving cassava plants turning…
Local councils across the UK are approving large-scale pig and poultry operations without adequate climate impact assessments, creating what critics call an “emissions scandal” in the agriculture sector. An investigation has revealed that intensive livestock facilities—often called “megafarms”—are systematically failing…
British agriculture is experiencing a severe financial crisis, with more than one-third of farmers either losing money or barely breaking even, according to a troubling new industry report. The McCain Foods Farmdex study reveals that only 14% of surveyed farmers…
