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Benin’s smallholder dairy farmers need development finance to plant shady trees on the land where their cattle graze, to ...

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Whether you call him groundhog, woodchuck, whistle-pig or use the full genus and species name, Marmota monax, the nation’s ...

Low-carbon beef is a fantasy, and the only way to guarantee a reduced impact of this meat is to buy less of it, according to a new study.