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Jun 16, 2019

Agroecology: Key to agricultural resilience and ecosystem recovery

Shefali Sharma

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

The IPCC gives us 12 years to limit global warming to 1.5˚C. The IPBES Global Assessment has revealed that nearly a million species are on the verge of disappearance at an unprecedented rate of extinction.

Jun 6, 2019

Monocultures of the Genetically Modified Mind: My Surreal Encounter with Monsanto in Mexico

I was surprised to find seed giant Monsanto almost everywhere I went to research my book, Eating Tomorrow. But my closest encounter came early, during a five-hour meeting in 2014 with six Monsanto executives in the company’s high-rise office in Mexico. Monsanto and other seed companies were trying to open Mexico to genetically modified corn.

Jun 6, 2019

Trump's tariff tantrum

Karen Hansen-Kuhn

Reverting to his favorite form of discourse, President Trump tweeted last week that he would impose rising tariffs on imports from Mexico unless it stopped migration flows north into the United States. This is a violation of human rights and basic decency.

Jun 4, 2019

The trade cold war: Agricultural impacts

Dr. Steve Suppan

It’s hard to believe that transnational corporations—who sought and gained access to low-cost, non-union Chinese labor and more than one billion Chinese consumers in the 1990s and 2000s—could not have foreseen the day that China itself would compete in advanced technology products and markets.

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