An estimated 73 million sharks are slaughtered every year for their fins, with 110 species now facing extinction, reports Claire C.
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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
‘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
Anti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.
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