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An aerial view of the green campus with earth-colored buildings alongside a river

Rethinking Farming in Rwanda

by Susan K. Barnett

The Rwandan Institute for Conservation Agriculture wants to empower small farmers

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A close up image of a field of winter wheat growing outside Bashtanka, in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, on June 9, 2022

Seeds: An Unlikely Casualty of the War in Ukraine

How history—and future crops—were lost when Russia attacked a scientific warehouse for valuable plants and seeds

A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by William Young Ottley (1771-1836). The picture is of a pencil drawing of a pig and her pups. CC BY 4.0 via Wellcome Collection
Food

Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats

by Ravensara S. Travillian

COVID-19 is scary, and so are disease outbreaks in animals—they cause great economic devastation and disrupt human lives

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?