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Our four-wheel drive slides to a halt, throwing up clouds of dust as we pile out into the rising heat of the day, Zoemana and his fellow rangers taking off at full-speed towards a column of smoke in the distance.

We scramble for our cameras and trot after them, but before we’ve managed a hundred metres, they’re back, breathless, but undaunted, plumes of ash rising at every step.

“Four men,” Zoemana spits out. “Gone.”

A new generation of farmers brings productivity back to Cuba’s landscape

With its tropical beaches and rolling hills, spotted with tobacco plantations and pine forest, Cuba might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of degraded land. But behind the tourist idyll lies a grimmer reality.

Soil degradation is a major challenge for Vietnam's farmers, but biochar could be the answer.

While most people are familiar with the link between fossil fuel burning and the release of greenhouse gases, not so many are aware of the role land use management can play in mitigating climate change.