Tag: farming
Fighting for the future of wild fish
With Iceland’s wild salmon population under threat, two men are trying to protect them by campaigning against the mighty commercial fish far...
Economics Environment World
Funding female entrepreneurs: the Sri Lankan coconut husk business owner
‘In the last bank I tried, the manager was a woman. She could clearly see that I was running a good business,’ says Sarojini, an entrepreneu...
Agriculture Economics Society World
Funding female entrepreneurs: the vegetable farmer from Ivory Coast
‘When we go to the bank to ask for a loan, we’re denied because we have no collateral. So we established our own savings group’, says farmer...
Agriculture Economics Society World
Europe could turn to green agriculture, and still feed the continent – study
Can ‘agroecological’ approaches, such as organic, feed the world? A common criticism of greener farming is that it can’t, but a new report c...
Environment Food
Farming in Somerset in an era of climate change
This couple, proud stewards of a farm in Somerset, are having to adapt to the realities of climate change...
Agriculture UK
Rediscovering native crops in Indonesia
Meet the woman who mobilised other women to plant 30 acres of crop from hardy heritage varieties...
Agriculture World
