With the help of a simple innovation that started in Germany, farmers across France are boosting their incomes by selling directly to the public. French foodies can now buy products from apples to oysters at the touch of a button.

European dairy farmers have been experiencing their worst crisis in decades. Across Britain and France in particular, thousands of farmers have been forced out of business. Elsewhere, controversial indoor farming methods are increasingly being used. The solution? Some think it's a return to traditional dairy production.

Protein-rich insects are being billed as a key to food security amid global population growth. But some countries are already ahead of the game. Kenyans consider flying ants a delicacy, and one professor is researching how to blend bugs into biscuits and sausages.

Record temperatures in Italy this summer are expected to make 2017 an exceptional year for quality wine. But while wine producers might be grateful for the blazing sun and lack of rain, they're still facing a threat to their harvests: grape-guzzling wild boars.

Brittany is famous for its beautiful beaches. But in recent years that reputation has been tainted by green algae. Algae thrive on nitrates used in fertilizers that run off agricultural land and end up in rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Farming is one of Brittany's biggest industries. Experts say a drastic cut in nitrate fertilizer use is needed to combat the plague but farmers are reluctant.

Spain's Doñana National Park in Andalusia is a biodiversity hotspot. But the lack of water from drought is devastating the livelihoods of farmers and threatening the wetlands ecosystem.

The year 2016 broke records for our warming planet. And it won't be the last, says Deke Arndt, head of the climate monitoring branch at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. He tells DW water will be increasingly important.

Cameroon's Kilum-Ijim forest in the Bamenda Highlands is one of the last remaining habitats of the endemic Bannerman’s Turaco bird. Environmentalists fear the bird could disappear, as habitat destruction and the tribal custom of hunting the birds for their feathers has seen the population decline. Now, tribal rulers have broken with an age-old tradition to save the bird from extinction.

One region where the Arctic sea ice is melting fast is the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. This is already leading to a longer open-water season – and, for indigenous Arctic peoples, that might change their traditional way of life. Inuit talk about the ocean with reverence. It’s a place that holds their deepest respect - and the animals they rely on.

Despite conservation efforts, swathes of Brazil's Amazon forest are still lost to deforestation. Small-scale illegal logging can be difficult to monitor, even with satellite-imaging technology. Now, one indigenous tribe is looking to GPS mapping on smartphones to protect their forest.