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The Importance of Crop Diversity & the Milan Protocol
In December, Ms. Marie Haga penned an editorial in Panorama Magazine in Italy. Below is the English translation.
For centuries Italian cuisine has played a powerful role in shaping our eating habits, not just in the Apennine...
9 Dec 2014
9 Dec 2014
No Such Flavor as Strawberry
This year your strawberries could be as white as the cream poured over them, after a new variety went on sale today.
The pineberry is said to combine the shape and texture of a strawberry with a flavour and smell closer to that...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Gardens in the South Pacific Ocean
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;
...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Bananas, Bruised but Not Beaten
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. ...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Threatened Wild Sunflowers
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...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Yam: Feast and Forest
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...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
The African Rice the World Forgot
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...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
How Does a Toxic Grasspea Save Lives?
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...
2 Dec 2014
2 Dec 2014
Giving Tuesday 2014
On Giving Tuesday, December 2, 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give.
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2 Dec 2014
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