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NPR Gets It Wrong on the Food Crisis

AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Morning Edition’s recent series on the food crisis reinforces dangerous myths that actually block us from seeing the real solutions to hunger.
NPR Gets It Wrong on the Food Crisis

Local Organic Farm makes interconnectedness their business

Wayne Independent - Honesdale,PA,USA
What started as an artistic jewelry business and a dream is now a flourishing farm, a pond, a honeybee hive, an orchard, and a reality.
Ebb and Flow Organic Farm began…
Local Organic Farm makes interconnectedness their business

The seed struggle

Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Small farmers fight multinational business for control of the planet’s food supply
The seed struggle

Uganda: Declining World Market Prices Hit Flower Farmers

AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
High production costs and stagnant prices on the international market may soon push flower investors into alternative investments as the sector continues to register declining exports and revenue for the third consecutive year running.
Uganda: Declining World Market Prices Hit Flower Farmers

U.S. growers fighting back against foreign flowers

Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
After more than 16 years of Latin American countries enjoying a leg up on them, California’s cut flower growers say they have had enough.
U.S. growers fighting back against foreign flowers

Restaurants that cook with organic and locally grown products

Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
Finding restaurants that cook with organic and locally grown products used to be a problem. But that’s hardly the case anymore. Many restaurants use milk, cheese, poultry, meat and produce that’s grown and produced nearby.
Finding restaurants that cook with organic and locally grown products

Punish rotten seeds suppliers

New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
COMPANIES that supplied sub-standard farm implements to internally displaced people in northern Uganda should be penalised, MPs have recommended.

Punish rotten seeds suppliers - MPs

Hive loss is engima

Appeal-Democrat - Marysville,CA,USA
For many beekeepers, the mystery is as deep as the devastation. A hive begins as a set of wooden frames whose combs hold thousands of worker bees, pollinators of all manner of crops. Then the insects scatter without warning
Hive loss is enigma

Growing Flowers is a Wilting Business in Hawaii

KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG - Honolulu,HI,USA
HONOLULU (KHNL) — While some Hawaii nursery businesses are making lots of green, others are worried an island tradition could be wilting away.
That’s because more flowers used to sew lei are no longer grown in Hawaii.
Growing Flowers is a Wilting Business in Hawaii

Water cuts slicing avocado groves

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Deep in the green avocado groves, the winter quiet is shattered by the whine of chain saws. Workers wielding machetes slash leafy branches from the trees and spray-paint the tall stumps white to protect the bark from sunburn in the forced hibernation to come.
Water cuts slicing into avocado groves