Environment

Impunity Stinks in Havana’s Quibú River

By Ivet González
The stench hits as you walk through the door of one of the pleasant houses along the Quibú river in the Cuban capital’s Náutico neighbourhood. “The garbage piles up, it stinks, and there are even rats,” said María Angélica Suárez, a local resident who is tired of living this way.

Small-scale Organic Farming Gets a Boost in Peru

By Milagros Salazar
A new institution set up in Peru will strengthen small-scale organic farming, providing support to some 43,000 exporters of ecological products and another 350,000 who supply the domestic market with environmentally-friendly products.

Eucalyptus Trees Make Way For Food Crops

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
A project to reclaim agricultural land lost to eucalyptus plantations is bearing fruit in Cameroon.

Christmas Storm Underlines Caribbean’s Vulnerability

By Desmond Brown
Guyanese President Donald Ramotar says the death and destruction caused by intense rainfall in three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries over the Christmas holidays is a sign that the region has no time to lose in fortifying its resiliance to climate change.

Bike Paths, BRT Going Strong in Latin American Cities

By Emilio Godoy
Sustainable transport grew in the Latin American cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro in 2013.

Anti-Poaching Operation Spreads Terror in Tanzania

By Kizito Makoye
Ali Nyenge, a resident of Iputi ward in Tanzania's northern Ulanga District, woke up as anti-poaching security officers surrounded his home. He says they accused him of illegal hunting and in front of his 11-year-old son, made him take his clothes off, poured salt water on his body and whipped him with a cane.

Women Farmers in Chile to Teach the Region Agroecology

By Marianela Jarroud
An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching an agroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America.

Seedpods Worth More than Gold in Argentina’s Arid North

By Fabiana Frayssinet
Tired of the drought driving away their men and killing their livestock, the women of Guanaco Sombriana, a town in northern Argentina, have found a new source of income by using the seedpods of native trees that up to now merely provided shade in this arid landscape.

Keeping the Grass Greener for African Plant Breeders

By Busani Bafana
For the few plant breeders in Africa like Vivian Oduro, working for an international research institution is an obvious choice, with prestige and benefits any agricultural scientist would find hard to decline.

Farm Forecasts Try to Decode a Capricious Climate

By Jewel Fraser
In the southwest peninsula of Cedros, one of Trinidad’s driest areas, Jenson Alexander grows the cocoa used for many years by the British chocolate giant Cadbury.

Mexican Communities On Guard Against Thirst for Oil

By Emilio Godoy
The Terra 123 oil and gas well in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco was in flames since late October, just 1.5 km from a community of 1,500 Oxiacaque indigenous villagers, who were never evacuated.

Kenya’s Excess of Policies Can’t Deal With Climate Change

By Miriam Gathigah
Kenya is facing its greatest challenge as weather patterns are starting to significantly affect food production. And experts are blaming the low adaptive capacity of the farming sector on an excess of policy and institutional frameworks that are silent on both climate change and agriculture.

Tallying Losses, St. Vincent Begins Repairs After Deadly Flood

By Desmond Brown
Ralph Gonsalves fought to hold back tears as he shared how his cousin was killed the night before Christmas.

Barren Fields Recover From Taliban

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Ahmed Nawaz, a 55-year-old farmer in northwestern Pakistan’s Swat valley, rues the day the Taliban arrived in his beautiful land, known for its rolling mountains, lush fields and blossoming orchards. “The earth became barren,” he says.

Baka Caught in the Maze of Modernism

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
Essomba Dominique, a Baka man from Mindourou in Cameroon’s East Region, sits dulled-eyed in front of his hut, known in the Baka language as the ‘mongoulou’.

Waiting for the Rains, Zambia Grapples With Climate Change

By Ernest Chiombe
It is seven in the morning and Georgina Musende, 56, of Kamanga Township, which just lies east of the Zambian capital Lusaka, is already sweating as she digs into the dry earth. Every time the hoe hits the ground, the dust engulfs her.

Every Eucalyptus Felled Equals Gallons of Water

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
Sabina Shey Nkabiy, a farmer in Cameroon's North West Region, moves around these days with a million-dollar smile on her face. The mother of six, who used to trek 10 kilometres a day to farm, now harvests food in her backyard.

Farmers in Mozambique Fear Brazilian-Style Agriculture

By Amos Zacarias
Rodolfo Razão, an elderly small farmer in Mozambique, obtained an official land usage certificate for his 10 hectares in 2010, but he has only been able to use seven. The rest was occupied by a South African company that grows soy, maize and beans on some 10,000 hectares in the northeast of the country.

The Legacy of 2013

By Roberto Savio
At this time of hope for what the new year may bring, it would be useful to look at the legacy we carry with us from the year we leave behind. It was a year full of events - wars, rising social inequality, unchecked finance, the decline of political institutions, and the erosion of global governance.

Coal Trains Run into Stiff Resistance in U.S.

By Matthew Charles Cardinale
Citizens and activists in the U.S. Pacific Northwest are fighting three different proposed coal terminals, including one in Oregon and two in Washington.

GMO Test Trials Prove Divisive in Ghana

By Albert Oppong-Ansah
A battle over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is building in Ghana after the government recently completed regulations that could allow modified cowpeas and other selected crops to be grown following confined field trials (CFT).
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