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An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire C.

Filed in: Fishing Mozambique

Can fuel crops ever be sustainable? Danny Chivers gives us the lowdown.

Filed in: Agriculture Biotech Power

From wood to algae, biofuels have been around for years. But they’re not necessarily all they’re cracked up to be. Danny Chivers has the low-down.

Filed in: Agriculture Biotech Power Sustainability

Filed in: Agriculture England

‘Barefoot beekeepers’ adopt an alternative approach to safeguarding the threatened bee population.

Filed in: Agriculture Animals

Morocco’s exploitation of Western Sahara’s fish stocks in choppy waters.

Filed in: Fishing Morocco Western Sahara

Trade unions improve conditions for African flower workers

Filed in: Agriculture Trade Unions Trade Unions Uganda

Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.

Filed in: Agriculture Biotech India

The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world. David Ransom reports.

Filed in: Agriculture Biotech

In many African societies seed preservation was once an almost sacred duty. Isaiah Esipisu explains why it is becoming vital again.

Filed in: Agriculture Kenya

Ray Burley is caught in the cost/price squeeze.

Filed in: Agriculture Environment Food