29 June 2022
Farmers' markets sell more diverse fruit and veg than big stores. They are also a repository of knowledge, and serve as plant conservation hubs, says Beronda L. Montgomery
24 April 2018
One-eighth of the world’s 11,000 bird species are now threatened, and in most cases farming is the biggest threat thanks to our increasingly meat-rich diets
3 April 2018
Governments are dithering over whether to limit climate change to 1.5°C or 2°C, but it seems the stricter target would avoid food shortages and major economic losses
29 March 2018
The UK must answer difficult questions on climate change, food security, aviation and more as it leaves the EU on 29 March 2019
15 March 2018
The donne’ sali chilli is a major feature of the cuisine of the Mariana Islands, but thanks to an invasive snake this pepper faces an uncertain future
27 December 2017
Ever since we domesticated the cocoa tree over 3000 years ago, we have been breeding them to make tastier chocolate – but in the process we have made them vulnerable
27 September 2017
A proposed US ban on the sale of shark fins could backfire and make life worse for some of the planet's most imperilled species, says Lesley Evans Ogden
20 July 2017
The bounceback of North Sea cod means you can now buy guilt-free, but Brexit and climate change could threaten its fragile recovery
