Agriculture

G(irls)20 Summit: Closing the Gender Gap in Agriculture

Eve Crowley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Gender Equality girls20 Summit, Gender Equality, girls20-Summit-2012, Developing Countries, Gender Equality Africa, Agriculture, girls20-Summit, Impact News
Eve Crowley

Despite the crucial role that women and girls play in their communities, they are all too often seen as a burden. To change such perceptions, we need to give them access to the resources they need to realize their full economic potential.

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NOT Like Mother, Like Daughter

Suzanne Skees | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Family Dynamics, Poverty, Microenterprise, Agriculture, Ultrapoor, Upaya Social Ventures, India, Samridhi Dairy, Teenagers, Uttar Pradesh, Impact News
Suzanne Skees

A Mother and her daughter's values clash in rural northern India. Is this what happens to teenagers everywhere, or does living in extreme poverty exacerbate these issues?

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Cooking for Solutions: An Alternative to Chef-Provocateurs

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Environment, Sustainability, New York Times, Chefs, Thomas Keller, Agriculture, Cooking for Solutions, Food News
Paula Crossfield

The proliferation of farm-to-table restaurants, farmers' markets and small food businesses, and the increased visibility of food policy issues in the media all speak to a sea change under way.

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Bipartisanship Is Not Always Democratic

Rajiv Narayan | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Farm Bill, 2012 Farm Bill, Agriculture, Farm Bill Politics, Farm Bill Harry Reid, Farm Bill Mitch McConnell, Food Politics, Politics News
Rajiv Narayan

Known as the Farm Bill, this legislation is projected to cost a half-trillion dollars over five years. A legislative package so large that it will impact the food process from sowed seed to second serving deserves better than both sides of the aisle.

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Stop Excluding Women From Farmer Business Associations, Field School Training

Dr. Rekha Mehra | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Female Farmers, Farming, G(irls)20 Summit, G(irls)20 Summit 2012, Agriculture, Farmers, Africa, Developing World, Women Farmers, Impact News
Dr. Rekha Mehra

Women farmers work hard to grow food for themselves and their families, and for sale. They plant and tend, fertilize and weed, harvest and process -- in short, do all it takes to produce a crop. But they don't get much in return.

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From Hand-outs to Handshakes: The Time Has Come for the African Farmer

Josette Sheeran | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: African Economic Development, G8 Summit, Grow Africa, World Economic Forum, Foreign Direct Investment, Agriculture, Africa, Business News
Josette Sheeran

The fact that these days you are more likely to attend an investor conference than a donor conference in Africa underscores the energy by which a new generation of leaders are responding to Africa's development challenges.

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Empowering Women Farmers Is Key To Ensuring Global Food Security

Roger Thurow | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Farmers Africa, Women, Impact G8, Global Development, Microfinance, Women in Agriculture, Farmers, Agriculture, G8, Dear G8, Impact News
Roger Thurow

bringing the benefits of agricultural development to the farmers at the end of the road, is the challenge within the challenge.

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To Fight Hunger, Inspire Youth

Paul Schickler | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: White House, G8, Global Hunger, Global Food Security, World Hunger, Farmers, Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Dupont, Young Leaders, Barack Obama, Food Security, Impact News
Paul Schickler

There will be a significant audience missing from the G8 Summit symposium on food insecurity -- the people who are going to be responsible for feeding those additional two billion in 2050.

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Female Farmworkers Commonly Suffer Sexual Assault, Harassment

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Westside Family Preservation Services Network, Bryan Little, California Farm Bureau Federation, Female Farmworkers, Grace Meng, Amparo Yebra, Illegal Immigration, Agriculture, Immigration, Immigration-Reform, Sexual Abuse, Department of Homeland Security, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Farm Employers Labor Service, Sexual Harassment, Ap, Women News

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration st...

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Green Social Entrepreneurship: A Long View

Thane Kreiner | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Earth Day, Social Entrepreneurship, Green Technology, Agriculture, Green, Clean Water, Biochar, India, Green Energy, Impact News
Thane Kreiner

Forty years ago next month, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi presciently told those gathered in Stockholm for the United Nations' first major conference on the environment that "poverty is the worst form of pollution."

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Child Labor and Agribusiness Churn Washington's Food Fight

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Child Labor, Agriculture, Department of Labor, Agribusiness, Child Labor Protection, Child Labor Regulation, Migrant Children, Migrant Families, Agricultural Labor Reform, Child Labor Laws, Politics News
Michelle Chen

Child farmworker struggles are symptoms of a blight that's buried by the spin of corporate agriculture: the politics of the food system are spoiled rotten.

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City of Big Shoulders and Green Thumbs

Neil Wagner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Climate Change, Urban Agriculture, Global Warming, Chicago, Vertical Farming, Agriculture, Green News
Neil Wagner

A former meat packing plant, once part of Chicago's legendary Union Stockyards, is trading in its stun line for a stunning new line of thinking.

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The Obama Administration Is Wrong to Deny American Farmers a Profitable Crop

Eric Steenstra | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Farming, Hemp Production, Hemp Legalization, Hemp, Farmers, Agriculture, Cannabis, Obama Drug Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, Obama Administration, Eric Holder, Industrial Hemp, Drug Policy, Politics News
Eric Steenstra

Despite growing consumer demand for these eco-friendly and healthy products, the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation in the world that allows the importation and sale of hemp raw materials and finished goods, but bans its farmers from growing the crop.

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Kansas Wheat 'Tour' Finds Most Fields Are Maturing Early

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Midwest Wheat Crops, Kansas Agriculture, Wheat, Kansas Wheat, Agriculture, Kansas Wheat Trek, Food, Midwest Agriculture, Kansas Wheat Crop, Kansas Wheat Tour, Video, Green News

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Participants in the annual Kansas winter wheat tour observed drought-stressed wheat fields Wednesday in southwestern counties, ...

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Water Ills Focus of New Documentary

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Australia, Participant Media, Jay Famiglietti, Endocrine Disrupters, Agriculture, Texas, Recyced Water, Pollution, Peter Gleick, Film, California, Tyrone Hayes, Jessica Yu, Aaron Wolf, Water, Erin Brockovich, Pollutants, Food, Hexavalent Chromium, Wastewater, Bottled Water, Video, Clean-Water, Clean Water, Green News
Bill Chameides

2012-05-03-Screenshot20120503at9.29.37AM.jpgLast Call at the Oasis highlights global water crisis but opines that the "glass is half full."

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We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger

Eric Holt Gimenez | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, World Hunger, Nature, Poverty, Overpopulation, Agriculture, Sustainability, Global Poverty, Food News
Eric Holt Gimenez

Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. For the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased faster than the rate of global population growth.

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Climate Change This Week: Weird British Weather, An Intensifying Water Cycle, and More...

Mary Ellen Harte | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Floods, Drought, American Legislative Exchange Council, Corn, England, Agriculture, Environment, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Mary Ellen Harte

Get ready for fiercer droughts and storms, folks -- the salt of the sea is telling the world that climate change is intensifying the global water cycle twice as fast as originally thought, a new study in the journal Science shows, according to Michael Lemonick at Climate Central.

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'Impact Investing' And Social Enterprises: Knowing When To Scale

Thane Kreiner | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Vision, Impact Investing, Philanthropy, Poverty, Social Entrepreneurship, Water, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Venture Capital, Business Model, Impact News
Thane Kreiner

At the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, we focus on helping social entrepreneurs build ventures that scale. My colleague and mentor Jim Ko...

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Dave Jamieson

White House Caves On Controversial Regulations

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: White House, Farming, Labor, Video, Child Labor, Agriculture, Labor Department, Farmers, Farm Bureau, Denny Rehberg, Sarah Palin, Deregulation, Regulation, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Facing political pressure from Republicans and farming groups, the White House has decided to scrap rules proposed last year that would ...

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Visit to a Rare Wasabi Farm (VIDEO)

Rebecca Gerendasy | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Sushi, Farming, Wasabi Plant, Frog Eyes Wasabi, Growing Wasabi, Wasabi, Agriculture, Video, Green News
Rebecca Gerendasy

There are only four wasabi farms in North America. The wasabi plant is difficult to grow commercially, and because of its value, these farms tend to be hidden from public view.

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Falling in Love... With Dirt

Craig McCord | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Handpicked Nation, Agriculture, Green, Fresh Produce, Dallas, Farming, Community Service, Urban Farming, Ronisha Isham, We Over Me Farm, Slow Films, Texas Colleges, Michael Sorrell, Education, Paul Quinn College, Sustainability, College Students, Green News
Craig McCord

Paul Quinn College recently abandoned its football program and converted the field into a working organic farm maintained by the students themselves.

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The Conscientious Consumer's Quandary

Andrew Gunther | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Animal Welfare, Local Farms, Agricultural Certification, Farm Animals, Animal Welfare Approved, Sustainable Farming, Agriculture, Food News
Andrew Gunther

If you aren't able to make regular visits to every farm your food dollar touches, and if you really want to have confidence in the farms you are supporting, you need to look for a credible third-party certification.

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175 Chickens in One Minute?!

Craig McCord | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Chicken Industry, Chicken, Agriculture, Poultry, Food Inspection, Usda, Petitions, Food Health, US Department of Agriculture, Green News
Craig McCord

Right now, the USDA inspectors inspect 35 chickens a minute for lovely things such as bile, feces and random spare parts that got through processing. That's a chicken every two seconds.

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Where Have All The (Young) Farmers Gone?

AP | SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | Posted 04.04.2012

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Kathleen Merrigan sees an epidemic of sorts sweeping across America's farmland. It has...

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Four Ways The Farm Bill Can Make You Crazy

Dan Imhoff | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, 2012 Farm Bill, Farms, Farm Bill, Agricultural Policy, Agriculture, Food News
Dan Imhoff

A rational, coherent blueprint for a healthy national food supply might be too much to ask. But after years of studying the Farm Bill, I'd be thrilled to see a dent made in four of its most glaring conflicts of purpose.

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