AgribusinessIn Choluteca, southern Honduras, a powdered-sugarcane plant, an okra exporter shipping a container a day and a specialty coffee cooperative employ hundreds. The World Bank said in February 2026 that the ComRural II project behind them had helped more than 3,200 people into jobs.
With sardines and anchovies depleted, starving African penguins are feeding stones to chicks, which then die, a South African seabird rescue group says.
After Germany's biggest potato crop in 25 years, a Berlin campaign has been giving away thousands of tonnes of surplus potatoes to charities, residents and the zoo.
LivestockAmerican farms held 86.2 million cattle and calves on 1 January 2026, with beef cows down 1% and the calf crop down 2%, while milk cow numbers rose.
A political row has broken out in India over IIT Madras director V Kamakoti's nomination for the Padma Shri, centred on his past remarks on cow urine.
Some Antarctic penguin species have brought their breeding season forward by more than three weeks, a new study finds, threatening their survival.
EnvironmentUnder Ethiopia's Farmer-Led Irrigation Development (FLID) programme, farmers choose their own irrigation system and pay part of its cost: 30% for solar systems and 60% for diesel ones. The World Bank reported on its progress in January 2026.
At least two Republican senators have written to President Donald Trump objecting to India's 30 per cent tariff on pulses imported from the United States, a dispute that could complicate India-US trade talks.
A UN treaty to protect marine biodiversity in international waters came into force on Saturday, 17 January, setting a legally binding framework to tackle threats including overfishing.
A woman in Brisbane woke in the night to find a carpet python about 2.5 metres long coiled on her chest, and calmly removed it through the window herself.
French farmers took hundreds of tractors down the Champs-Élysées to the parliament building in Paris over the EU-Mercosur trade deal and other grievances.
AgribusinessBMI Farms in Tanene grew from a rejected beer-factory proposal into an irrigated fruit and juice business. A World Bank report of 13 January 2026 said IDA grants of $6.5 million had drawn $36 million in private capital into Guinea's agribusinesses.
Chhattisgarh, known as India's rice bowl, faces allegations of major irregularities as thousands of quintals of government-procured paddy are written off each year as natural losses.
