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Can going green help pick the slavery out of cotton?

Supply chain – Feb 10, 2017

Woman farmer Kanchen Kanjarya participates in a training session in Mayapur village in the Indian state of Gujarat on Feb. 1, 2017, to learn about the best ways to pick cotton as part of an initiative to boost farmers’ income and tackle child and forced labour in the cotton industry.

Young Indian farmers spice up market for organic Himalayan crops

Agriculture – Feb 13, 2017

A farmer tends to his organic vegetable plot in the Himalayan state of Sikkim, India

Former U.S. President Carter goes solar, helping power rural hometown

Solar – Feb 10, 2017

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter delivers a lecture, at the House of Lords in London, Britain February 3, 2016.

U.S. scientists develop new way to measure crop yields from space

Farming – Feb 13, 2017

A Malawian subsistence farmer surveys her maize fields in Dowa near the capital Lilongwe, February 3, 2016.

Unleash the entrepreneur in every small farmer - new U.N. agency chief

Agriculture – Feb 15, 2017

In this file 2011 photo, former Prime Minister of Togo Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, in New York.

Mongolian herders need aid to weather second big freeze - Red Cross

Extreme weather – Feb 16, 2017

Setevdorj Myagmartsogt smokes a cigarette outside his tent-like ger home, which is heated by coal burning stove, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia January 29, 2017.

Brazil pushes on with plan to open farmland sales to foreigners

Farming – Feb 16, 2017

Workers carry pipes to install an irrigation line in a coffee farm in Santo Antonio do Jardim February 6, 2014.

Organic yogurt wins migrants freedom from exploitation in Italy

Refugees – Feb 20, 2017

Cheikh Diop (R) and his business partner Ismail carry milk to make yogurt at cheese factory in Casale di Martignano, near Rome, Italy, February 14, 2017.

As solar refrigerator keeps mangoes cold, farmers’ profits heat up

Solar – Feb 21, 2017

Joseph Mailu harvests ripe mangoes in Nziu, Kenya

Solar-powered Africa “never more possible and less expensive” – energy chief

Solar – Feb 20, 2017

A man stands among solar panels installed by the United Nations Developments Programme at Abu Salem hospital in Tripoli, Libya January 29, 2017.

Nepal quake survivors rebuild lives with organic farming

Farming – Feb 17, 2017

Woman working on her field in Kavre, Nepal, November 26, 2016.

Why floodplains could be California's buffer against climate extremes

Water – Feb 24, 2017

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Mexico tequila maker has a shot at turning agave waste into fuel

Agriculture – Feb 24, 2017

Spiky blue agave plants, used to make the tequila spirit, grow in Jalisco state, Mexico.

BLOG: Why the local food trend won’t cut it in a climate change future

Food – Mar 2, 2017

Men hang on the back of a truck loaded with farm produce driving along a road in Ikeja district in the commercial capital Lagos, Nigeria

In drought-hit Kenya, fairer sharing of rivers helps keep the peace

Farming – Mar 3, 2017

Farmers work on a field in Narok County, Kenya, where associations have been set up to share scarce river water

Insurance vital, but no magic bullet to fight drought in Africa

Insurance – Mar 6, 2017

Subsistence farmers work their field of maize after late rains near the capital Lilongwe, Malawi February 1, 2016. Floods and an El Nino-triggered drought have badly hit the staple maize crop. Picture taken February 1, 2016.

From new beans to ancient plants, drought-busting crops take root

Drought – Mar 6, 2017

Farmer Djeneba Diarra stands over a ditch on a bean farm in Heremakono, Mali

Indian village beats drought, one raindrop at a time

Water – Mar 7, 2017

Ansar Shaikh, a local guide, shows the trenches dug on hill contours at Ralegan Siddhi, a small village in the western state of Maharashtra that has remained water sufficient for nearly four decades

Could "resurrection" crops survive drought and feed a hungry planet?

Food – Mar 7, 2017

A farmer inspects his maize field in Hoopstad, a maize-producing district in the Free State province, South Africa, January 12, 2016.

Farmers in Sahel learn ways to avoid drought disaster

Drought – Mar 8, 2017

Seydou Walaga shows off his grain silo, which still has food in it more than seven months after harvesting, in Kourmou, the Tillaberi region of western Niger.