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Landscape of Huapi Island and Lake Ranco. © CONAF-FAO/Oscar Concha
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Healing Chile’s Huapi island
08/08/2024

On a remote Chilean island at the centre of Lake Ranco south of the Andes, native trees are making a comeback thanks to the restoration efforts of...

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Women master climate resilient farming for bigger and better yields in Nepal
15/07/2024

Gita Adikhari realised something significant had changed when her farm in the Jhapa District of eastern Nepal yielded nearly double the amount she would...

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Setting up Côte d'Ivoire’s cocoa sector for climate resilience
04/07/2024

Cocoa producers in Côte d'Ivoire have faced increasing climate challenges, as cocoa crops are highly sensitive to weather changes. With support from...

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Investing in our lands
14/06/2024

Land holds the past, present and future of humanity. Everything from nutritious food and thriving ecosystems to agricultural heritage and livelihoods...

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The awakening for Cuban farms
05/06/2024

In the town of Corralillo, in the province of Villa Clara in central Cuba, Mariano Quintero Almeida works eight hours a day in the hot sun on the farm...

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Sacred plant helps forge a climate-friendly future in Paraguay
15/02/2024

For generations, Ariel Benitez's ancestors, the Ava Guaraní people, one of the Indigenous Peoples living in eastern Paraguay, have been harvesting the...

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Pulses and soils: a dynamic duo
05/02/2024

They are the dried edible seeds of legumes both cultivated for food and feed. They are pulses, and if you didn’t know already, they have the potential...

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Solar powered water pumps support pastoralists’ livelihoods in times of climate crisis
29/11/2023

It is early morning, and Michael Lokuru Kuri is taking his cattle out to graze as he does every day when the sun rises, to beat the heat. It’s a peaceful...

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Invasive species are changing the nature of the Mediterranean Sea
05/09/2023

The Mediterranean Sea is being invaded by hundreds of fish, jellyfish, prawns and other marine species from outside the region.

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