The Floating Gardens of Bangladesh
A Bangladeshi nonprofit organization is training farmers to tend an unusual source of food and income: a floating farm with a duck coop, fish enclosures, and vegetable garden moored by rope to the riverbank. Floating farms are a way to help Bangladeshis live with rising waters, as climate change threatens to worsen the severity and duration of floods.
 
Fighting Climate Change with Indigenous Livelihoods
Indonesia is the world’s fastest deforester and its third largest greenhouse gas emitter. But indigenous communities are already modeling ways that strong economics can coexist with sustainable forest management. With new legal protections and initiatives that are helping to increase the economic value of protected ecosystems, indigenous communities could have a huge role to play in halting deforestation and climate change.

DNA Spray-On Technology Could Revolutionize Food Traceability
DNATrek, a Bay Area startup, is hoping to revolutionize the food traceability industry with DNA “barcodes” that can be added to fruits and vegetables via a liquid spray or a wax. This liquid solution containing unique bits of DNA that gets sprayed on foods in order to easily identify information about where it came from and how it was produced in the event of an outbreak or recall.
 
Holding Back the Sahara
Overgrazing and climate change are the major causes of the Sahara’s advance in northwestern Senegal. Since 2008, however, Senegal has been fighting back against the encroaching desert, planting seedling trees along a 340-mile ribbon of land that is the country’s segment of a major pan-African regeneration project, the Great Green Wall.