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Resilient Bolivian Farmers Face the Changing Climate

June 6, 2011 10:42 pm Published by Comments Off on Resilient Bolivian Farmers Face the Changing Climate

As weather patterns become more volatile, smallholders are facing new challenges. Climate change poses a severe threat to growing seasons,…


Wheat: The New Frontier

March 15, 2011 9:46 pm Published by Comments Off on Wheat: The New Frontier

Earlier this year, the US Department of Agriculture opened the door for the unregulated use of Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa.  Made…


Saving Africa’s Seeds: Farmers fighting for diversity

November 30, 2010 10:13 pm Published by Comments Off on Saving Africa’s Seeds: Farmers fighting for diversity

Agricultural programs have too often scratched where there wasn’t any itching. — Agronomist Roland Bunch1 Meeting the world’s future food…


Labor, Land and Cooperatives in Cuba

August 25, 2010 10:17 pm Published by Comments Off on Labor, Land and Cooperatives in Cuba

The Cuban government has consciously incorporated worker cooperatives into its revolutionary project. This is not a discussion about the Cuban…


When Fast Food Fights

December 10, 2008 11:56 pm Published by Comments Off on When Fast Food Fights

Burger King’s newest ad campaign, a pseudo-scientific documentary featuring the world’s last “hamburger virgins” as they compare the taste of…


The Wall Street Meltdown: The View from Asia

September 30, 2008 12:04 am Published by Comments Off on The Wall Street Meltdown: The View from Asia

For many, the Wall Street crisis is a replay, though on a much larger scale, of the 1997 Asian financial crisis,…