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Arresting Monsanto in Kathmandu
by Sampada KC: Monsanto, the U.S.-based GMO giant, has had its share of controversy. While a few of its admirers uphold the company as the world’s best hope...
Game: Cracking Down on Ecuador’s Illegal Meat Trade
by Aliyya Swaby: In the morning of June 11, 2011, the Ecuadorian navy publicly burned a heap of confiscated wild animal meat in front of their offices in Coca, a...
Liberia’s Rough Road to Rice Production
by Jessica Shor: 85 percent of calories consumed in Liberia come from rice, but after decades of turmoil and war the country relies on imports to feed itself—at...
Back to the Grassroots: An Alternative Model of Rural Development Takes Root in India
by Dan Gordon: India has forgotten Gandhi. His face might be on the rupee note in everyone’s pockets, but his philosophy of self-reliant small villages is rarely...
Farmer on the Roof
by Ashley Wu: As the world population grows towards 10 billion inhabitants by 2050, most new citizens will be born in cities. Agribusiness has replaced bucolic family...
Boricua Roast: Café-Hopping in San Juan, Tasting an Endangered Espresso
by Diego Salvatierra: I want to try Puerto Rico’s best coffee,” I told my San Juan cab driver. He drove me through the cobblestone streets of Old San Juan, the...
Silent Swarm
by Aaron Gertler: Six years ago, the bees stopped waking up. As winter turned to spring, beekeepers across the United States found their dormant hives devastated....
Mange Bien!
By Emily Hong: I’ve come to appreciate Paris as a metropolis of many food quirks: Parisians disdain peanut butter as “too rich” while hailing fatty duck liver...
A Woman’s Right to Birth
by Cathy Huang: Salud Alarcon, 15 years old with brunette ringlets framing her grinning face, has written her favorite saying onto the first page of every fresh...
Letter from…Brazil
by Alexis Cruzzavala: The pungent scent of cinnamon lingered on my clothing for days after I left the dense forest of northeastern Brazil’s National Park, Chapada...
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