A new study led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Réunion and Duke University reveals that the black rat is ...

Rats have long been notorious for spreading disease, but a new study reveals just how much human-altered landscapes can ...

An indri lemur watches over its forest home in Eastern Madagascar To capture the story ... while iconic baobabs tower over the land, known locally as ‘mother of the forest.’ ...

and that a staggering 80-90 percent of Madagascar's land area burns each year. Although much of the forest destruction may have come about at the hand of the small farmer or herdsman, the causes ...

The Malagasy government is pushing ahead with a controversial highway linking Antananarivo and the port city of Toamasina, ...

The 20,000-ariary banknote of Madagascar features a golden ear of hybrid rice, a symbol of agricultural partnership between China and Africa. Since 2007, China has been sending agricultural experts to ...

STEVE BACKSHALL: This is Madagascar. It’s a vast island in the ... CHILD NARRATOR: Meeting people that have to use the land around them so they can eat and survive made us think that they ...

Mining has a very bad reputation. It is often assumed to be one of the worse land uses – destroying and polluting the environment and creating barren, moon-like landscapes. Where mining occurs in ...

Beyene, F. 2011. Dismantling of Common Property, Land Use and Pastoral Livelihoods in Eastern Ethiopia. Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics 3(10):475–486. Blanc-Pamard, C. 2009. The ...