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The Age of the Elephant: The Politics of Caste in Uttar Pradesh
by Marissa Dearing: Amidst the swarming crowds of Uttar Pradesh tower are hundreds upon hundreds of colossal stone and bronze elephants. Although the sheer scale...
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...
Letter from Chile: Meeting the Keepers of the Seeds
by Diana Saverin: I sat alone in the plaza as the thick November dusk dissolved off the stones. I was in a town in southern Chile called Curarrehue: a village of...
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...
Q&A: A Conversation with William Trubridge
William Trubridge holds the world record in free diving. For a living, he treads water at the surface of the ocean, takes a big gulp of air, and proceeds to dive...
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...
Q&A: A Conversation with Nathan Wolfe
Nathan Wolfe’s research takes him far outside the confines of a lab. As director and founder of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (GVFI), an organization...
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