Tag: farming
Biden signs new executive order aimed at food and farming sector
President Biden signed an executive order that will protect American farmers under the Packers and Stockyards Act against abuses suffered at meat...
An invisible essential labor force
How the migrant women farmworkers who put food on our tables are organizing for a better life after the pandemic.
64% of world’s farmland at risk from pesticide pollution, study finds
"This is important because the wider scientific literature has found that pesticide pollution can have adverse impacts on human health and the environment."
Reclaimed water could be the solution to farming in a drier...
A California farm is making sure wastewater no longer goes to waste.
After enduring ‘complete hell’ during pandemic, food workers face obstacles getting...
“Vaccinating our essential farmworkers will ensure the safety of their workplaces, their homes, their families, our food supply, and the vital services that they perform.”
Water hits Wall Street as a futures commodity
“Climate change, droughts, population growth, and pollution are likely to make water scarcity issues and pricing a hot topic for years to come.”
Encourage Congress to ban factory farms
It is time we fight back and support animal welfare, our environment, and what we put on our dinner plates!
Bridging the food-or-energy gap
“This dual use of the land adds a layer of efficiency that wouldn’t be there. You start seeing layer after layer of benefit, benefit, benefit."
A new generation of Black farmers is returning to the land
They are working to repair harm inflicted over the past 400 years, with an eye toward reparations.
How to solve the big problems that small family farms are...
Direct sales and the organic label are not enough to keep family-scale farms viable.
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Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: A unifying Peoples Project
Ethiopians are faced with a choice: unite and prosper or withdraw into ethnic rivalries and fall into further conflict and discord.
Undercover investigations expose brutal wildlife killing contests
Welcome to the cruel world of wildlife killing contests, family events where children play amidst piles of slaughtered animals—and legal in 42 states.
Federal judges blocks Arkansas abortion ban
This law “is categorically unconstitutional, and plaintiffs have demonstrated that they are likely to succeed on the merits.”
Player or pawn? Luke Harding’s Russiagate ‘scoop’
The reporter’s involvement in the persecution of Assange alone would be enough to make people question his honesty.
How a powerful US lobby group helps big oil to block climate action
“I think it’s fair to say that API and its prominent member companies have a broadly shared goal, which is to keep the social license of the oil and gas industry operating, and therefore enabling them to continue to extract oil and gas for as long as possible, as profitably as possible.”