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Sometimes you can find the most telling information in a newspaper not in the articles, but in the ads. A supermarket circular in the South Pacific tells its own story:

Mackerel in oil, $3.

30; 4 pound can of corned beef, $3.75;

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At least 1,000 hectares of banana farms in Southern Mindanao have been destroyed so far by Fusarium, a disease with no known cure that organic farming advocates said was aggravated by the practice of monocropping in the region. ...

The line of cars was so thick that Hill County farmer Rodney Schronk couldn’t get into his field of sunflowers. Hordes of rubber-neckers stopped along Interstate 35W near Hillsboro were taking photographs and walking through...

Yet again, citizens of the region of Mahi yesterday celebrated the Feast of Yams. It was held at the Royal Palace of Savalon in the presence of a huge crowd and a group of dignitaries.

On the special day, King Tossoh Gbaguidi...

When a pair of reporters traveled to the Nigerian town of Ofada looking for its famously delicious local rice, they were surprised to find no rice at all.

Onabiyi’s mood took a downward turn when he was asked what had happened to...

Dr. Haileyesus Getahun was traveling in the remote north of his native Ethiopia when he encountered a painful sight.

After cruising over a beautiful but arid highlands and valleys for about 6 hours on a mule back, amidst a...

Former Executive Director of the Crop Trust, Dr. Geoff Hawtin, penned an editorial in the Daily Star Lebanon on the importance of crop diversity for the Mideast.

Agriculture is facing its biggest challenge in 13,000 years of...