May 04 Watch 7:49 India faces challenge of feeding its people as it becomes world's most populous nation By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Morgan Till, Sarah Clune Hartman As India takes on the title of the world’s most populous nation, a question that looms thanks to climate change is how to feed 1.4 billion people. Small-scale farming families say crops are withering under record-high temperatures, cycles of drought… Continue watching
Apr 11 After a rural California hospital closes, farmworkers pay the price By Kerry Klein According to the Farmworker Health Study, published earlier this year following in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 farmworkers across California, between one-third and one-half of farmworkers surveyed suffer from chronic diseases, including diabetes and hypertension. Continue reading
Mar 10 What it's like to be a Black farmer in Oklahoma By Adam Kemp As the number of Black-owned farms and ranches dwindles across the country, a photographer has partnered with several organizations to help record not only the struggles of keeping this way of life alive but also the resilience and joy of… Continue reading
Dec 16 Ukraine businesses to receive $2 billion in international loans By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press Private businesses in Ukraine are in line to receive $2 billion in financing arranged by the International Finance Corp. to help rebuild the country's agriculture and fuel import industries and other ventures, which have faced extensive losses because of the… Continue reading
Nov 12 Droughts, rising seas threaten Cuba's agriculture amid a struggling economy By Megan Janetsky, Associated Press Like the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba is suffering from longer droughts, warmer waters, more intense storms, and higher sea levels because of climate change. Continue reading
Oct 09 Supreme Court grapples with animal welfare in a challenge to a California law requiring pork to be humanely raised By David Favre, The Conversation Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The U.S. Supreme Court will confront that question when it hears… Continue reading
Aug 31 Watch 8:45 Historic drought followed by flooding threatens crops and farms in East Africa By Fred de Sam Lazaro The toll from extreme weather has devastated vast regions of sub-Saharan Africa which are suffering from the worst drought conditions on record and a food crisis that ranges from severe to catastrophic. Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro looks at one… Continue watching
Aug 20 Scorching heat in China wilts crops as farmers struggle with shrinking water supplies By Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press Hundreds of persimmon trees that should be loaded with yellow fruit lie wilted in Gan Bingdong’s greenhouse in southwestern China, adding to mounting farm losses in a scorching summer that is the country’s driest in six decades. Continue reading
Jun 24 Heat is a pollen killer, and that's a problem for the future of agriculture By Carolyn Beans, Yale Environment 360 Farmers and scientists are increasingly observing that unusually high springtime temperatures can kill pollen and interfere with the fertilization of crops. Researchers are now searching for ways to help pollen beat the heat, including developing more heat-tolerant varieties. Continue reading
Jun 10 Dutch government angers farmers with new emission goals By Associated Press The plan will lead to major upheavals in the Netherlands' multibillion dollar agriculture industry and has already angered some farmers. Continue reading