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I donned my mask, and bravely set forth to the local grocery shop and vegetable and fish market. The formerly boring chore was now charged with adventure and risk. Would the police whack me for being out on my errands? Would the shops be open? Would they be stocked? Most importantly, would the dratt

Business , Disasters , Environment , Food , Forests , Health , Labour / 10/29/2019

Farmworkers Face Daunting Health Risks In California’s Wildfires

As wildfires grow more frequent, so do concerns for wine country field workers, who can face conditions that jeopardize their health, wages and housing. Farm laborers in yellow safety vests walked through neatly arranged rows of grapes Friday, harvesting the last of the deep purple bundles that hung

Biodiversity , Featured , Food , Forests , Sustainable Development / 01/08/2019

For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help

Covering more than 20 percent of the country’s land area – approximately half the size of Europe– the Cerrado is Brazil’s second-largest habitat after the Amazon rainforest, with areas ranging from grasslands to gallery forests to semi-arid caatinga characterized by desert-type vegetation. N

Climate , Environment , Health , Sustainable Development , Waste / 10/24/2018

North India chokes as farmers set stubble ablaze

Prasanna Mohanty In the afternoon of October 20, a 40-year-old farmer in Sangrur district of Punjab torched his four-acre field covered with paddy stubble even as the Central Pollution Control Board warned of serious air pollution. The pollution watchdog said in its daily air quality index (AQI) bul

Biodiversity , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Food , Forests , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 07/22/2018

Retaining forests benefits African farmers, new study finds

Koen Kusters The closer a farm is located to a forest, the better it performs in terms of livestock productivity and long-term soil sustainability, according to a recent study conducted in southern Ethiopia. Additionally, proximity to a forest increases the ability to deal with shocks and equality

Climate , Sustainable Development / 07/16/2017

Community-led adaptation: Myth or reality?

Smallholder farmers have much experience of adapting to their complex, diverse, and risk-prone environments Climate change is an outcome of human civilisation and undoubtedly the antidote to climate change is the community, either victims or contributors to global warming. Climate change poses threa

Food , Sustainable Development / 03/03/2017

What we need are farms that support farmers, consumers AND the environment

Andrea Basche and Marcia DeLonge U.S. agriculture has trended for several decades — as a result of policy, economics and other drivers — toward systems that are more simplified over both space and time. This has had adverse consequences for food, energy and water. Editor’s note: This Voices

Food , Human Rights , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/14/2016

NGO focus: Work of ASODECOM, Burundi

Contra Nocdendi International/NGO partner ASODECOM is a civil society organisation in Burundi that engages in human rights and development issues through programs, advice and advocacy. A significant part of our work done here at Contra Nocendi International is done in collaboration with partner

Business , Environment , Food , Multimedia , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Videos / 08/26/2016

This Man Turned an Opium Field into a Sustainable Coffee Farm in Thailand

Todd Reubold Somsak Sriphumthong is on a caffeine-fueled mission. After years living and working abroad, the organic farmer and community leader returned to his native Thailand several years ago — during a time when the forests were being cleared for opium fields and rice plantations. Seeking a su

Corruption , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Food / 08/07/2016

Syria’s wheat shortage deepens

Hazem Badr Syria’s ongoing wheat harvest is not large enough to feed people living in areas controlled by the government, researchers have warned. According to a study by Syria’s Public Authority for Agricultural Research, Syrian farmers sold 450,000 tons of wheat last year — less than half th

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