agriculture
Cuba, Vietnam among 38 countries that reduced hunger
June 18, 2013The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization announced that a total of 38 countries worldwide have already met all or part of the "Millennium Goals" for the reduction of hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
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Today in labor history: Farm Workers win after 17-year boycott
May 29, 2013On May 29, 1996, the United Farm Workers of America reached agreement on a contract for 450 lettuce harvesters, ending a 17-year-long boycott.
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Food News: A birthday, a time to march, a time to sow
April 4, 2013Did you know that every minute, we lose one acre of farmland to development? Or that since 1982, we've lost over 23 million acres of farmland?
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Faith groups to Publix: Fairness for farmworkers
February 5, 2013"Knowing that our brothers and sisters who are farmworkers are not being treated fairly - their working conditions are abhorrent, we're standing with them today."
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Today in labor history: Farm workers on trial
December 18, 2012On this day in 1830, the trial of nearly 350 agricultural workers began in England.
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