From nourishing our foods to storing massive amounts of carbon, soil is teeming with diverse microbial life that could slow global warming. Climate change scientist Jane...
Many people across the world don’t have access to healthy food — while in other places tons of food go to waste. Social entrepreneur Ndidi Okonkwo...
To solve the climate crisis, we need to make tropical forests worth more alive than dead, says environmental economist Nat Keohane. Highlighting the urgent need to...
A safe space to save money is life-changing — especially for the 60 million smallholder farmers in West Africa (the majority being women) who often live...
What if smallholder farmers could use their produce and livestock to pay for goods and services? TED Fellow and alternative currency enthusiast Fariel Salahuddin is working...
Scientists have long known that cows are a huge source of the greenhouse gas methane, contributing up to four percent of emissions globally. But could there...
For smallholder farmers in India, agriculture has long been an unreliable source of income — crops that flourish one season can fail the next, thanks to...
What do woolly pigs have to do with climate change? They’re part of a vital, ingenious and evolving strategy to take carbon out of the sky...
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Farming feeds all of us — yet in rural communities,...
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Farmers stand at the center of the world, says Andrew...