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Revisiting Pumpkins in Ukraine Amidst a Gruesome War
One year ago, I wrote an article about the history, culture, and economic potential of pumpkin cultivation in Ukraine. At the time, my...
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Feb 15, 20235 min read


The Paradox of Food Insecurity in the Nation’s Agricultural Heartlands
There are approximately two million farms scattered throughout the United States, on which migrant and seasonal farmworkers grow much of...
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Feb 2, 20234 min read


Interpreting Sri Lanka’s Organic Farming Failure
On July 9, 2022, more than 100,000 Sri Lankan protesters stormed the residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, forcing the president to...
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Nov 14, 20225 min read


Saving Soil with Subsidies
Modern environmental regulation and debate tends to focus on electric and industrial production—how it pollutes and how it can be...
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Dec 5, 20186 min read


The Trump Administration is Failing Our Family Farmers
Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of...
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Mar 2, 20185 min read


The Last Vestige of Apartheid? Land Politics After Mugabe
In Africa’s southern states, land remains a deeply emotive issue, an open wound harkening back to days of apartheid and colonialism. In...
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Feb 12, 20187 min read


Trump’s Farming Folly: How the White House is Leaving Farmers Behind
In the world of food, where free range and organic are idolized, farmers remain caged in by big business and government aid. The United...
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Nov 3, 20176 min read


Building the Great Green Wall: Combatting Sahel’s Economic and Political Instability with Climate Po
Home to impressive monuments such as Timbuktu and Djenné, the Sahel Region, an eco-climate zone that encompasses nations such as Sudan,...
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Apr 30, 20178 min read


Armyworms and the Attack on Zambian Agriculture
Marching in platoons and consuming all in its path, the formidable fall armyworm decimates crops in the Americas and Southern Africa each...
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Apr 16, 20175 min read


Crying Over Dumped Milk
Over the past year, the average American has consumed an extra pound of dairy products. However, this is not a conscious decision in...
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Dec 7, 20165 min read


Who’s More Sacred: The God-Man or the Yamuna River?
March 11, 2016 marked the beginning of the three-day World Culture Festival (WCF) held in India’s capital, New Delhi, to celebrate “The...
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Apr 4, 20165 min read


Weather You Like It Or Not: The El Niño Effect
It is hard to go a day without thinking about the strange weather that has graced this winter so far. In 2015, major cities across the...
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Jan 24, 20163 min read


Kernels in a Jar: The Agricultural Ticket to the Presidency
Across the United States, autumn is a time of seasonal preparation: for colder weather in the North, hurricane season in the Southeast,...
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Oct 18, 20155 min read


A Watershed Moment: Californian Droughts Invite Compromise
It is abundantly clear to anyone visiting California this year that the state is in the midst of a catastrophe. The Central Valley is...
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Sep 24, 20144 min read
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