Food / Agriculture
Articles about Agriculture, ordered by date. 
Total control
Monsanto has a mission. But where will it lead the rest of us? Vanessa Baird begins this month's investigation into one of the world's most powerful and hated corporations.
'Our main crop is hope'
Meet Cuba's highly successful organic farmers. Why are they getting short shrift, when the country needs more homegrown food?
No joy in soy
Demand for genetically modified soy is changing the face of Argentina. And not for the better, says Eilís O’Neill.
The eye of the farmer fattens the beast
Can smallholders be more productive than agribusiness? It looks that way in Zimbabwe, which has broken up its big farms, and where growers have nearly matched production of their white predecessors, in fewer than ten years. Joseph Hanlon reports.
Cazizi village holds its ground
Forestry companies want to carve up Mozambique’s northern highlands. Peasant farmers and their allies are working to hold them accountable. Hazel Healy investigates.
Invest in small farmers
With proceeds from hydrocarbons set to roll in, Mozambique has a unique opportunity to reverse the fortunes of its smallholders. Land activist Diamantino Nhampossa makes the case.
Introducing... The Eight Great Greenwashers
Ahead of the Rio +20 Earth Summit, Danny Chivers exposes the canny, crafty and plain deceitful claims of corporations co-opting 'sustainability'
Raise your glass to a sustainable pint
Libby Powell investigates the making of Green Beer.
The food rush
Maize and wheat are hot assets, right up there with gold. But since investors piled into food markets, the poorest can no longer afford to eat. Hazel Healy gets to grips with the commodity speculators.
Chicken à la injection
Wild stories fly around about chicken farming but the reality remains less than wholesome, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Kibera's vertical farms
Slum dwellers are using urban agriculture as a buffer to market shocks, report Danielle Nierenberg and Jessie Chang.
Where now for biofuels?
Can fuel crops ever be sustainable? Danny Chivers gives us the lowdown.
Biofuels - the good, the bad and the ugly
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.
Honeybees get a helping hand
‘Barefoot beekeepers’ adopt an alternative approach to safeguarding the threatened bee population.
Crops of truth
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.
Surviving climate change
In many African societies seed preservation was once an almost sacred duty. Isaiah Esipisu explains why it is becoming vital again.
Seed savers
The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world. David Ransom reports.
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