Campaigners say the $32m loan to dairy firm Alvoar Lacteos could damage forests in Brazil
Shell’s rice farming offset projects are under review. Climate Home found them riddled with accounting loopholes and questionable integrity claims.
Nestlé, Coca Cola and Pepsi are among the buyers from Nanglamal Sugar Complex, which smallholders say gives no help with climate resilience
Women and girls in India’s sugar fields are exposed to sexual harassment, backbreaking work and inadequate healthcare
Millions of people migrate each year to work in India’s sugar fields under extreme heat, harsh conditions and debt bondage
In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt
A handful of large companies make big profits by controlling the food trade in Africa, while doing nothing to increase its climate resilience
Sofanit Mesfin talks about her work helping female farmers in different African countries adapt to a changing climate
Fertiliser prices have risen by 300% since Russia invaded Ukraine, beyond the reach of smallholders, yet philanthropists see them as key to increasing yields
The Rajapaksa regime deserved to be banished, but today’s hunger stems from decades of choosing global markets over self-sufficiency
Governments must fund humanitarian relief and prioritise cropland for feeding people, not livestock or cars, to guard against future shocks
Policy upheaval and stark criticism of the quality of carbon offsets from a former official have thrown Australia’s ability to deliver on carbon targets into doubt
Up to 28 million people are facing severe food insecurity as soaring wheat prices follow failed rains, Covid and desert locusts
As experts debated a controversial proposal to classify palm oil plantations as forest, their event in Jakarta was disrupted by swearing and pornography
Lawmakers have approved a reform to the Common Agricultural Policy, which critics say fails to deliver on the bloc’s Green Deal and climate goals
The proposed reform to the EU’s farming subsidy programme continues a business-as-usual approach to farming that we cannot afford in a climate emergency
Prime minister Narendra Modi has big plans for palm oil cultivation. But the experience of farmers in Mizoram does not bode well
The government is promoting smaller livestock to limit the rise of methane emissions, in a plan that is 80% dependent on international finance
Many Kenyans are suffering post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety after being hit by extreme weather, but lack access to mental health services
UN agencies are urgently calling for international support as a million Madagascans go hungry, with some surviving on insects and wild roots