drought
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Fresh Take: How Water Became A Weapon, The Caribbean’s Food Insecurity Problem, And From Blog To $25 Million Business
It’s been a busy week on the food and agriculture beat: There was the House Agriculture Committee hearing featuring top…
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Fresh Take: What The West’s Drought Means For Food, Why The Food Industry Needs Economic Justice And Have We Reached Peak Vegan Chicken Nugget?
I started Fresh Take to keep sustainability at the forefront of the conversation every week, not just when the newsletter…
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Fires rage in Southwest as firefighters in Arizona brace for heavy winds
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — Firefighters fanned out across blackened landscape in Arizona’s high country, digging into the ground to put out…
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Dry Weather Forecast Calls For Higher Food Prices And Billions In Farm Losses
Record-breaking drought is reordering American agriculture. Third-generation San Joaquin Valley farmer Gary Beene will plant only half his 1,200 acres…
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Sask. farmers could see relief from drought in coming weeks after abnormally dry April | Globalnews.ca
It is that time of year when farmers are heading into spring seeding season but Mother Nature still needs to…
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Pinched Saskatchewan farmers decry carbon tax hike | Globalnews.ca
Dickson Delorme, who farms near the town of Foam Lake, Sask., says he stockpiled fuel weeks ago to prepare for…
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Maine Farmers Ship Millions Of Pounds Of Potatoes West To Help After Drought
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s potato growers had such a bumper crop this past season that they stepped in to…
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Record flooding in Australia driven by La Niña and climate change
A slow-moving low-pressure system has dropped 790 millimetres of rain on Brisbane in one week, causing floods that have claimed…
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Extreme winter drought devastates crops in Spain and Portugal
Roofs peeking out of the water have become common every summer at the Lindoso reservoir in northwestern Spain. In parched…
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Portugal limits hydroelectric power amid unusual winter drought
Portugal is restricting the use of some reservoirs for hydroelectric power and irrigation amid an unusual winter drought. On Tuesday,…
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