Tag: Agriculture
Jamaica's female farmers rebuild after Hurricane Beryl
CROSS KEYS, Jamaica -- Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As...
Judge in Brazil orders slaughterhouses to pay for Amazon reforestation
BRASILIA, Brazil -- A judge in the Brazilian state of Rondonia has found two beef slaughterhouses guilty of buying cattle from a protected...
Drought forces Kenya's Maasai and other herders to look beyond cattle — even to fish
KAJIADO, Kenya -- The blood, milk and meat of cattle have long been staple foods for Maasai pastoralists in Kenya, perhaps the country's...
Chocolate's future could hinge on success of growing cocoa not just in the tropics, but in the lab
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Climate change is stressing rainforests where the highly sensitive cocoa bean grows, but chocolate lovers need not despair, say...
Seeds are gifts from nature, says a major organic producer. So now it's going to give them away
NAPLES, New York -- A major organic seed company has surprised its supporters by announcing it will end sales and give hundreds of...
Game of inches: Lobster fishermen say tiny change in legal sizes could disrupt imperiled industry
PORTLAND, Maine -- Gerry Cushman has seen Maine's iconic lobster industry survive numerous threats in his three decades on the water, but the...