Eco-Business

Severe heat in Bangladesh has exposed critical food security challenges, affecting everything from fruit production to paddy and poultry farming.

Climate change is affecting the types of crops that can be grown, particularly at higher altitudes. However, traditional oasis agriculture in Oman’s northern mountains could reveal how to implement sustainable land use in dryland ecosystems.

Crops that have been "altered" by scientists in a laboratory can be found growing on millions of hectares of farmland around the world.

Backers say rice variety is a cheap way to fix vitamin A deficiency, but a Philippine court ruling could delay sowing in Bangladesh.

By Daisy Dunne

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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There is a case for relaxing Vietnam’s long-standing restrictions on the use of land meant for rice cultivation. By Peter Warr and Huy Quynh Nguyen

Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, Jr began his administration by vowing to prioritise clean energy and curbing climate disasters. Eco-Business scrutinises these pledges and asks what he must address to stay true to them. By Hannah Alcoseba Fernandez

Climate-resilient agricultural knowledge has always been there among Indigenous groups, we just need to learn from them. By Arindam Roy

The government of Indonesia does not fully utilise knowledge about sustainable peatland management. The new rice plan will not support the restoration of degraded peatlands as rice as a dryland species does not support peat soil formation. By Ibnu Budiman

By Robin Hicks

By Craig Hanson

By Akmal Siddiq and Md. Abul Basher

By Sakinah Ummu Haniy and Hidayah Hamzah, Mirzha Hanifah

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