agriculture
Women senators offer bill to compensate Black farmers
September 24, 2010WASHINGTON - Senators Kay Hagen and Blanche Lincoln unveiled their bill at a Capitol Hill rally following a march by Black farmers demanding compensation for decades of discrimination.
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Solving the problem of Cuban agriculture
September 6, 2010Revolutionary Cuba, no stranger to big problems, now faces another major challenge: agricultural production.
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Another chicken and egg story
September 1, 2010Given the need to feed a growing world population, what kind of farming is viable and sustainable today?
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According to the fruits of their labor
August 18, 2010A photo-essay about blueberry workers in eastern Maine by photojournalist David Bacon resurrected my own memories of picking blueberries in Maine as a young boy.
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What catastrophe are we waiting for?
August 16, 2010Global climate change is putting humanity's most basic, most elemental needs increasingly at risk.
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