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A Mayan Farming Technique to Fight Guatemala's Food Insecurity

A Mayan Farming Technique to Fight Guatemala's Food Insecurity

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The K'uxu'rum system improves crop yields and enables farmers to adapt to climate extremes

Farmer and agrochemical worker Annasso More was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy because of overexposure to toxins, making it difficult for him to walk.

In India, Climate Change Drives Pesticide Use, Harming Farmers' Health

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As temperatures rise, farmworkers turn to using more potent pesticides, putting themselves at further risk

The Mysterious Kidney Illness Rising Among Sri Lankan Farmers

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Are pesticides in drinking water to blame for kidney disease among young farmers?

The Mysterious Kidney Illness Rising Among Sri Lankan Farmers

You Can't Eat Tobacco

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Transitioning away from tobacco farming can improve food security

You Can't Eat Tobacco

Rethinking Farming in Rwanda

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The Rwandan Institute for Conservation Agriculture wants to empower small farmers

Rethinking Farming in Rwanda

Seeds: An Unlikely Casualty of the War in Ukraine

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

Seeds: An Unlikely Casualty of the War in Ukraine

Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats

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

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

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

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

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