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Gabriela Burian, senior director of sustainable food systems at Bayer, says that hunger is an issue that the company is trying to combat. “Our goal is to make sure we empower especially farmers that are very small across the world and farmers that don’t have access to technology or to information,” Burian says. Bayer has […]
Excerpted from “Food Fix,” copyright 2019 by Mark Hyman M.D. Used with permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York. All rights reserved. In a room full of cowboy hats, Regi Haslett-Marroquin cuts a contrasting figure. As the native Guatemalan takes the stage to address the hundreds of farmers and ranchers who have gathered in Albuquerque, New […]
Agriculture Published on February 20th, 2020 | by Johnna Crider February 20th, 2020 by Johnna Crider Wind energy is offering hope for American farmers amid tough times. In an article by Time Magazine, the plight of American farmers is brought into focus. “They’re trying to wipe us off the map,” says the subheading that quotes one […]
If there was one phrase I remember from my time in Scottsdale, Arizona, for GreenBiz 20, it is, “The suits have got to get out of the office.” Those were the words uttered repetitively by Temple Grandin, the animal behaviorist who helped McDonald’s develop strategies for treating beef more humanely, when she spoke to a […]
From coffee to clothing, U.S. retail sales of items certified by nonprofit Fair Trade USA topped $6 billion in 2016 with well-known brands such as Starbucks, PepsiCo, Target, Costco, Walmart, Patagonia, West Elm and Gap Inc. among its 1,300 corporate supporters. Even more notable considering the mission of the fair trade movement: The organization generated […]
This is an excerpt from “Rainforest: Dispatches From Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines” by Tony Juniper. Copyright 2019 by Tony Juniper. Reproduced here with permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Conservation of the rainforests is far more likely to succeed when smallholders are empowered to do sustainable farming. The large-scale loss of tropical rainforest can have […]
Chief Zogli looked weary as he scratched a notch in his doorpost to record the weather. “Still no rain,” he says with resignation. The chickens pecked lazily in the dust and the goats foraged for the last of the dropped grains beneath the emptying corn crib. In this rural community outside of Odumase-Krobo, Ghana, the […]
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