In sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral livestock farming – where cattle, goats and sheep roam freely across grasslands, grazing at will – has been the main form of livestock production. It has been a source ...

Recent data analysis conducted by a human rights advocacy organization found that nearly a dozen international finance institutions directed over $3 billion to animal agriculture in 2023. The majority ...

Wildlife is at risk as demand for cropland and water grows to support a 50 per cent rise in farmed animals, campaign alliance ...

This reporting comes from episode 3 of the latest season of Marketplace’s “How We Survive,” which takes a closer look at how the climate crisis is also a food and agriculture crisis. How humanity ...

Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered pandemics, and rewritten the course of economies. The Black Death, which ...

The first was the lift in factory prices and how that had, in turn, pushed up mart prices. The second was the continuing ...

The group Food & Water Watch bashed the continued growth of industrial livestock operations and repeated its call for a moratorium. The dominance of industrial-sized livestock operations continues to ...

More than 1,400 have opposed plans to build the new complex in Wiltshire Almost 1,400 people have opposed "cruel" plans to build a cattle "factory farm" the size of a Lidl supermarket on the edge of a ...

A local initiative that would limit the size of livestock and poultry farms in Sonoma County has qualified for the ballot, setting up what is likely to be a heated and expensive political fight this ...

Almost 1,400 people have opposed "cruel" plans to build a cattle "factory farm" the size of a Lidl supermarket on the edge of a village. Bodman Livestock Ltd wants to create two large sheds at Whyr ...