agriculture

Today in eco-history: The worst storm of the Dust Bowl

April 14, 2014 By Special to People’s World

On April 14, 1935, The "Black Sunday Storm," one of the worst dust storms in U.S. history, caused immense economic and agricultural damage

South Sudan facing famine crisis

April 11, 2014 By Brian McAfee

Over 3.7 million people in this new African nation of 11 million are at severe risk of starvation, and a UN official coordinating humanitarian aid in South Sudan says "we're in a race against time."

“Cesar Chavez” is an inspiring must see for today

March 31, 2014 By Pepe Lozano

The Cesar Chavez film highlights the courageous commitment and unwavering dedication of one historic union organizer and his fierce companions.

Is the Earth overpopulated?

March 13, 2014 By Robert Meeropol

We must bring down the population through universal education, and government assisted family planning programs; doing so is a necessary condition of controlling global warming.

Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer

January 6, 2014 By Emile Schepers

20 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.