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Women farmers in Africa produce over 60 percent of all food crops. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cimmyt/5352940723/in/photostream/">CIMMYT (flickr)</a>

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In Africa, female scientists should power female farmers, group says

Women comprise 43 percent of the world’s farmers. In Africa, it’s 80 percent. Women plant, harvest, process and sell their crops, but men continue to dominate agricultural science and research. This may be about to change.

View of the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region. Photo: Justin Cruanes

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Cash Cows: On the Ground with Georgia's Dairy Industry

My cab driver was yelling something that sounded like "khows, khows!" I hadn't the faintest idea what he was talking about until I saw the spotted figures in the distance and realized he was saying "cows."

Although Pakistani women have generally been excluded from land ownership, flood recovery is prompting the government to take action. Photo: Miguel Samper for Mercy Corps

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Empowering Women in the Recovery from Pakistan’s Floods

Severe weather has proven to be a catalyst for women’s rights in rural Pakistan.

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Green School

At Green School in rural Bali, K-12 students learn not only the staples of a traditional education — reading, writing and arithmetic — but also how to grow organic rice and build with sustainably produced bamboo. Students from the local community, as well

Haitians load bags of food donated by the United States onto a truck for distribution to earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince after the January earthquake. Photo: Jenny Vaughan/Mercy Corps

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Earthquake Shocks Haitian Rice Market

In Haiti, rice is king. It’s consumed at every meal and forms an important source of income for many people — wholesalers, street vendors, and farmers. But the January earthquake has left the rice market in shambles.

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Farming Boom Goes Bust

After two boom years, The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. agricultural sector is expecting this year's profits to be below the 10-year average.

Many African countries, like Madagascar pictured here, are increasingly leasing land to foreign firms, but critics argue the deals are exploitative. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goukely/1372969345/">goukley (flickr)</a>

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Who will profit from 'land grabbing'?

A million hectares in Uganda. Some 690,000 hectares in Sudan. And 500,000 hectares in Tanzania. These are just a few of the numbers that have appeared on the bargaining table in the past year as foreign firms scramble for land leases in Africa.

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Farmers Watch Crop Prices Plunge

The U.S. farming industry has taken quite a hit recently.

Two farmers pile wheat in a field. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/3157507826/">A. Davey</a>

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Land Investment Abroad: Help or Hindrance?

A recent story in The Economist reports that Countries like Saudi Arabia and South Korea are looking beyond their own boarders to grow food, leasing or purchasing large swaths of land in developing countries like C

Around 22 percent of the Brazilian Amazon is owned by various Indian tribes. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoffreitas/1470195542/">leoffreitas (flickr)</a>

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Forest Fight

The fate of the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, hangs in the balance.

Eating bugs is already a common practice in over 13 countries. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mureena/2134334057/">Vilhelm Sjostrom (flickr)</a>

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Let Them Eat Bugs

Scientists are jumping on an underutilized protein source that is abundant and environmentally friendly.

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The Two Sides to Global Trade

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India's Forgotten Farmers

Despite India's economic progress, rural villages, where farming plays a large role, have been largely ignored.

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Purging Malawi's Peanuts of Deadly Aflatoxin

A toxic fungus growing on groundnuts is making trade difficult for some Sub-Saharan African countries and causing severe health problems for local communities.

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Like Wages for Chocolate

Failing to pay living wages to African farmers growing cocoa runs the risk of turning them against the West.

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