Italy: Exploitation of migrant farm workers

About 60 elephants in Thailand's Ayutthaya enjoy a fruit buffet to commemorate Elephant Day, in order to raise awareness and end their exploitation.

Reps order NAFDAC to end artificial fruit ripening in Nigeria.

After Emmerson Mnangagwa ousted Robert Mugabe from power, Robert Smart and his family were the first white farmers to return to the lands they had been forced from last year. The news came too late to plant maize or tobacco, but another crop thrived.

Fruit art.

The latest superfruit? Senegal hopes to cash in on fruit of baobab tree.

More than 400 displaced traders of demolished fruit market in Ikosi-Ketu, Lagos took to the streets to protest govt action. They are calling on the state lawmakers to intervene.

Spain provides Europe with much of its fruit and vegetables, and demand is on the rise amid the coronavirus crisis. But how is the country meeting this increased demand? In the greenhouses of the Andalusia region, managers are implementing safety measures to protect workers. But in the region of Murcia, where many foreign pickers live in slums, unions say it's a different story out in the fields. Meanwhile, Andalusia also counts more than 100 makeshift camps where thousands of illegal pickers live, unattended to by the health services. Our correspondents report.

A pregnant elephant was killed in India after eating fruit stuffed with explosives, officials said Wednesday, sparking outrage over the use of such traps to protect crops and homes. The wild elephant strayed into a village near Silent Valley National Park in south Kerala state last Wednesday when it ate the rigged fruit -- believed to be a pineapple -- which exploded and severely injured its mouth, officials said.

Smelly durian fruit forces evacuation of Bavarian post office. An overwhelming smell coming from a suspicious package at a Bavarian post office caused six workers to be taken to hospital and many more to be evacuated – only for police to discover that durian fruit, and not a dangerous gas, was the reason for the panic.

Rome's zoo distributes frozen fruit to animals to help them cope with high temperatures and to ensure they get enough sugar in their diet.

A greenhouse made of solar panels could point the way forward for the whole agricultural industry. Yet the farming pioneers who came up with the idea didn't find much favor with the local authorities — at first.