That’s why some ancient farming secrets could make a huge difference. Top image: CIFOR on Flickr. It’s probably not even worth trying to comprehend the scale of the Amazon rainforest.

NOVA CANAA DO NORTE, Brazil — Walking on a dusty field of cut rice that was once rainforest, researcher Flavio Wruck explains how farming, the Amazon's biggest killer, can be turned into its ...

Encouraging more intensive farming in areas of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest that have already been felled could help preserve the rest of the rainforest, by boosting crop yields without serious ...

When I was in college, a sustainability professor had us read a paper proposing an alternative to tradition farming practices ... Every Mechanic Gave Up On Tomatoes Become One of the First ...

The ground reveals one of the paradoxes of the rainforest ... The scale of abandoned farm and pastureland across the Brazilian Amazon is massive — covering an area larger than Portugal ...

Whether they manage the land or not, women are more willing to integrate nature into livestock farming ... production potential in the Colombian Amazon through paddock division and gender ...

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest ... and commercial farming in order to make a living. At the same time, indigenous communities living in the Amazon fight to protect the rainforest and ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a semi-nomadic indigenous ... relying on hunting, foraging and farming to survive. Scientists have been studying this unique group for two decades, and have ...

Yet progress in making farming practices more efficient and sustainable risks being undermined by the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in last month’s ...