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Company Gives Employees $1,000 for a Job Well Done
In the six months leading up to Employee Appreciation Day on March 6, ABR Employment Services has been surprising their employees with big checks...
Out of Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, New Indoor Farms Grow 100x More Food
Although his vision for indoor food cultivation dates back many decades, a Japanese botanist, Shigeharu Shimamura, used the earthquake and tsunami disaster of 2011...
Afghanistan Vets Are Trying To Cultivate Peace Through Saffron
A team of four U.S. veterans who are now in business school in Massachusetts have teamed up with farmers they met while serving in...
New Potato Can Be Grown With Just Sea Water
After years of researching crops that could be grown with the brackish water of the Netherlands, a Dutch team is poised to launch their pioneering potatoes, which are...
Norway Donates $10 million to Farmers in South Sudan
Norway has donated approximately $10 million to help the UN Food and Agriculture Organization provide conflict-affected farmers, fishers and herders in South Sudan with...
50,000 Food-Bearing Trees Planted To Fight Caribbean Hunger
The Trees That Feed Foundation announced yesterday that in just five years 50,000 food-bearing trees donated by the organization have been planted in Caribbean nations...
Win-Win! Reducing Human Poverty Eliminates Poaching in Zambian Valley
Far off in a remote area of Zambia, a new model for conservation is saving not only elephants and lions and the habitat, but...
State Will Pay You to Take Up Beekeeping
Demonstrating the value of honey bees, Virginia's state government has allocated $125,000 for another year of grants to encourage new beehive construction.
The annual grants have...
Helping Family Farmers in Uganda
Because they believe that small farmers are the answer to hunger in the developing world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2012 had...
Scientists Discover How to Make Ethanol Using Just Water on Metal
Stanford University scientists have found a new, highly efficient way to produce liquid ethanol that doesn't involve energy intensive food production, like corn-based fuel....
Obama Administration Targets $3 Million for Bee Health
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide nearly $3 million in technical and financial assistance for farmers and ranchers to help improve the health...
I’m Not Just Gaming, Ma! I’m Helping The World’s Farmers
There's no easy way to track all of the world's crops. What's missing, among other things, is an accurate map showing where they are....
Startups Try To Reroute Food Waste To The Hungry
A pair of brothers in Washington DC are working toward becoming the air traffic controllers of food, trying to redirect discarded food from dumpsters...
Kauai Passes Bill to Limit Pesticide Use and GMOs
The global agricultural companies that test their genetically modified crops on the Hawaiian island of Kauai will soon have to disclose the specifics of...
Senate Funding Bill Won’t Include ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
The Senate bill to keep the government funded will drop a controversial provision that food safety advocates warn lets agricultural giants avoid judicial oversight....
Fortune 500 Firm Teams With Carolina Nonprofit to Help Urban Families
Volunteers with Sow Much Good say their newly-constructed micro farm on land leased by Martin Marietta will help improve the health of families who...
Village in India Dramatically Increases Crop Yield Without GMOs or Herbicide
In a village in India's poorest state, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM, and no herbicide. The innovation...
World’s First Biofuel Flight Powered by 100 Percent Plant Oil
A twin-engine, 10-seater airplane taking off from Ottawa International airport two months ago may have looked like any other plane but it was, in...
Peru Passes 10-Year Ban on Genetically Engineered Foods
Despite pressure from multinational agri-business corporations such as Monsanto, the Peruvian Environment Minister announced this week that the government has approved a new regulation...
Troubled Veterans Find New Work on the Farm
A Marine sergeant and his wife have invited dozens of war veterans returning from the front lines to tend the crops and learn new...