A fisherman rides on a banca to inspect fish pens that needs to be dismantled to make way for an expressway at Laguna de Bay in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Erik De Castro​

This New Digital Tool Can Help Fight Overfishing around the World
Oceana’s Global Fishing Watch uses satellite tracking data to reveal the movements of at least 35,000 commercial fishing vessels around the world. Now anyone can see the activity of a specific vessel and whether that activity appears to be suspicious or suggestive of illegal fishing. Global Fishing Watch will aid enforcement of fishing policy and increase transparency to reduce seafood fraud.

TV Dinners
Microsoft has been developing a suite of technologies to slash the cost of precision agriculture by employing unoccupied slices of radio frequencies used for TV broadcasts to make crop data available to farmers. In cities, tiny slices of these white-space frequencies sell for millions, but in the sparsely populated countryside there is unlicensed space galore. These new technologies allow farmers to save money and boost outputs.

Going for Gold: Introducing the WINnERs Project
You’ve probably been consumed recently by the summer Olympics, but athletics are not the only arena to look for the mastering of exceptional feats. There’s a future gold medalist winner of a different ilk that you might want to keep your eye on: a project called WINnERS (Weather Index-Based Risk Services) that is working to build climate-resilient food supply chains.

Irrigation Turns Drought to Cash for Cameroon's Vegetable Farmers
A new channel irrigation system is allowing farmers to access water for their fields despite Cameroon’s steep, rocky terrain, helping them grow vegetables throughout the year and better manage worsening drought associated with climate change. With access to irrigation, farmers—many of them women—can produce five vegetable harvests a year.

Hidden Data: The New Weapon that Could Beat Hunger
A major agricultural data consortium aims to spur innovation by making information already being gathered from satellites, fields, and villages available to the public. Villages often have mountains of data on issues from land ownership to harvest records, but until now, no processes for sharing it at regional or national levels, or putting it online.

Smarter Farming Could Cut Hunger in Drought-Hit Southern Africa: Researchers
Southern African farmers facing hunger as a result of worsening drought know a lot about climate change, but lack the resources to put solutions that work into place, agriculture and development researchers say. But a new regional push, focused on promoting actions to adapt agriculture and curb growing hunger, could help.