Food / Farmers

The government of Dina Boluarte is determined to inflict a hated copper mining project on the people of the Peru’s Tambo Valley. Why, asks Vanessa Baird?

Kashmir’s apple farming struggling with the effects of climate change.

The mass protests of 2020-21 in India showed the world what solidarity in action can look like.

In recent years, black wine growers, distillers’ and drinkers have been staking their claim on the industry.

The stratagems of big corporate players and a compliant government will make the job of growing food not worth doing for Indian smallholders. Farming is not just an occupation but a way of life – and the fightback is robust. Navsharan Singh outlines just what is at stake.

Ocean View’s ‘kos gangsters’ want to overhaul their local food system.

A cleaner, greener approach to agriculture.

The soil is dying, the water’s running out, and climate change is rendering the future even more uncertain. Hazel Healy speaks to farmers in Senegal who are ready for a different system.

With herders under threat from global heating in Somaliland, the government has hatched a plan to move millions to the coast. But can pastoralists adapt to fishing? Alice Rowsome and Yahye Xanas investigate.

What if we banned the intensive farming of animals? Hazel Healy imagines a world without cheap meat, eggs and dairy.

Indian farmers protest produce legislation.

Adding pain to the pandemic. Nilanjana Bhowmick on the recent legislation steamrolled through parliament that has disadvantaged working people and gripped India’s farmers in protest.

Xylella is behind an unprecedented crisis in southern Apulia.

Report from West Cameroon by Natalia Riley.

In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.

Inside the deeply-rooted economy of cocaine production and trafficking in Colombia, and how it might undermine Colombia’s peace. Bram Ebus reports.

Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.