
Caribbean Traditional Plant Knowledge at Risk of Loss
Despite being a treasure trove of rich biodiversity and traditional plant knowledge, little of the ecological knowledge of Afro-descendent peoples in the Caribbean is...
Despite being a treasure trove of rich biodiversity and traditional plant knowledge, little of the ecological knowledge of Afro-descendent peoples in the Caribbean is...
In the arid forests of northern Peru, a rare variety of cacao tree known as blanco de Piura is cultivated by farmers and used to produce...
Our food systems are under enormous strain. As the climate crisis deepens – as highlighted by the recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
As governments drag their feet in responding to climate change, many concerned people are looking for actions they can take as individuals — and eating...
Since at least the 1600s, sailors in the British Navy had been issued a daily ration of alcohol. In the early days this might...
Food and climate change are often treated as separate issues, but conservative estimates suggest that changing the way we produce and consume food could...
The devastating war in Ukraine has understandably distracted media and political attention from climate change and related issues. But for those who did manage...
As more people are born onto this great green planet, the demand for food grows. Feeding the nearly 8 billion of us here today...
The world could lose half of its best coffee-growing land under a moderate climate change scenario. Brazil, which is the currently world’s largest coffee...
Sweet potatoes, first domesticated millennia ago in Central America still plays a role in the culinary culture of the region. It has also become...