Minister of Sustainability and the Green Deal Zakia Khattabi promised - and this was witnessed live by many people - that she would do what she can to protect global biodiversity. She made this promise on Dec. 2 when she spoke to a full aula to introduce Dr. Jane Goodall's public lecture in Brussels, that generated much media attention.

Vertical farming is taking off in the cosmetics industry. It offers a number of important sustainability advantages over traditional methods of farming medical herbs.

What a discovery that Great Britain is home to its own temperate rainforests! It is a well-known fact that the UK is rainy, but we usually associate rainforests with the tropics, where it humid and hot all year round. But the lesser-known rainforests in temperate zones play an equally important role as a climate buffer and harbor a very large...

Fonio is a traditional cereal that grows naturally in Senegal and has been cultivated for thousands of years. Fonio may be part of the solution to Africa's food crisis, as the continent is now the slave of non-native grain imports such as wheat. Industrial monocultures have since long overtaken the "old-fashioned" varieties. There is hence a...

El 17 de junio, la ONU arrojó luz sobre el problema mundial de la desertificación y sus consecuencias. Las soluciones se han expuesto bajo el lema "superando juntos las sequías". Este año, el Día Mundial ha sido presidido por España. Fue una buena elección, porque dentro de la UE, es el país que más sufre la desertización. Y con...

"Rising up from drought together" is the theme of this year's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. Spain is chosen by the UN as host to draw attention to increasing drought everywhere around the globe and its impacts. Spain is definitely a good choice, because it is the EU-country that is most at risk of becoming a desert. The...

Peter Murage, agronomist and founder of the NGO Mount Kenya Organic Farming (MOOF-Africa), spoke to us about promoting regenerative farming in Kenya in an area of severe soil degradation. His non-profit organisation does research and gives trainings and demonstrations to farmers on how to restore depleted soil and helping them to improve...

Despite extreme poverty, inequality, famine, water shortages, desertification and terrorism, Nigerien farmers have managed to successfully reforest their land. This proves how resilient people are and how much we can get done, if we want to.

This month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from the UN has finalized a report on climate change mitigation and adaptation. And the message is clear: We are still in time to turn the tide, and there are now explicit numbers, i.e. the actual monetary cost of carbon capture. Removing a tonne of CO2 (or equivalent) from the air...