The world’s most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of Africa, has covered only 4% of its target area but is more than halfway towards its 2030 completion date, according to a status report.

Ecologists and conservation experts in government, industry and universities are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment, our new research has found.

The European Union feed sector faces the long-term challenge of a structural shortage of protein meal, which makes it highly dependent on imported materials, notably soybeans and soymeal. At the same time, like the rest of the EU’s agricultural sector, it faces demands to be more sustainable, changing practices to fight climate change and environmental damage.

Large-scale land acquisitions have been increasing in developing countries following the 2007/8 high food price crisis.

The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once the poster child for genetically modified (GM) crop advocates.

The Zimbabwean government made an important statement about its maize production ambitions last week, which if fulfilled, would have implications on South Africa.