What Problems Does Organic Cotton Solve?
Organic cotton agriculture in India fails, resoundingly, to produce as much cotton as conventional methods. But what if that’s not the point?
Agriculture
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How Long Have We Been in the Anthropocene?
A global survey of scientists shines a light on the time depth of human impacts on Earth.
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U.S. Farmers Made in Brazil
A small group of Midwestern farmers have gone to Brazil to continue their tradition of farming—but what they have found is a far cry from the U.S. family farm.
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Ancient DNA Illuminates Pastoralism’s Rise in Africa
A new study pieces together clues to the multistep process behind the origins of livestock herding in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Truth About “Sustainable” Palm Oil
In West Papua, Indonesia, both conventional and “green” palm oil projects dispossess and exclude Indigenous people from their lands.
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What’s the Cost of Quinoa?
Many had hoped that quinoa production would lift farmers out of poverty and rehabilitate a war-torn nation—but the state of this seed remains uncertain.