List of Agriculture articles
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People line up to buy basic food and household items outside a supermarket in the poor neighborhood of Lidice, in Caracas, Venezuela on May 27, 2016. / AFP / RONALDO SCHEMIDT (Photo credit should read RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images) Venezuela’s Season of Starvation
Amid sky-high inflation, dangerous shortages, and political unrest, Nicolás Maduro’s regime is on the verge of collapse.
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CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA - 2012/04/29: Close-up of Avocados in the Getsemani area of Cartagena, Colombia. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) Black Market Avocados Flood Into New Zealand’s Sandwich and Sushi Shops
High prices and a short supply have led to an avocado crime wave in New Zealand.
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BUDE, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 09: Julie Martin from Pengenna Pasties prepares their version of a Cornish pasty in their bakery in Bude on September 9 2008 in Cornwall, England. The EU is currently considering an application that would give the Cornish pasty protected status and if successful, only pasty makers in Cornwall that use strict traditional methods and recipes for their meat and vegetable snacks would be able to use the trademark, which would end copy-cat products from branding and marketing their products as being Cornish pasties. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) The Meat Pasty Makers of Cornwall Don’t Want to Leave the EU
If Britain leaves the EU, poser pasties will abound.
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IJEBU-ODE, NIGERIA - NOVEMBER 03: A Nigerian woman sells tomatoes and chillies in an Ijebu-Ode market on November 3, 2009 in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria. (Photo by Jamie McDonald - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images) Nigeria’s Latest Enemy? Tomato-Eating Moths.
A moth infestation in Nigeria's tomato plants has increased the price of tomatoes by more than 30-fold.
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A homless person sleeps outside the Termini train station on November 18, 2014 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images) Stealing Food if You’re in Need Is Not a Crime, Italian Court Finds
The decision seemed particularly unusual in contrast to the U.S. criminal justice system’s response to crimes of necessity.
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A worker dries organic coffee beans produced at the Fortaleza Environmental Farm in Mococa, some 300 km northeast of Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 6, 2015. AFP PHOTO / NELSON ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images) In Brazil’s Coffee Industry, Some Workers Face ‘Conditions Analogous to Slavery’
A new report sheds light on punishing labor issues in the coffee sector, and on Brazil’s progressive efforts to protect farmworkers.
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BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - MARCH 13: A young African boy at work in the fields, watering maize crops just outside Bangui pictured on March 13, 2014 near Bangui, Central African Republic. (Photo by Thomas Koehler/Photothek via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** The Untouchables
Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations.
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ERFURT, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 15: German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a original grilled Thuringian sausage during an election rally on September 15, 2009 in Erfurt, Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) tours during her election campaign rally through six German cities in the historic 'Rheingold' train. The 17th German federal election is scheduled for September 27, 2009 and will be held to elect the members of the Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) Daimler Sausage-fest Goes Sour After Shareholder Takes Extra Saitenwürschtle
Police were called to a shareholder meeting after one investor was caught sneaking extra sausages.
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DRAGBACKBONE Why Is China Spending $43 Billion for a Farming Company?
The biggest overseas purchase in Chinese history is meant to ensure the world’s largest country can keep feeding its people.
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ANKARA, TURKEY - JULY 11: A Syrian refugee family living in an abandoned house, eats Iftar meals distributed by local municipalities and nongovernmental organizations during the Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan on July 11, 2015 in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo by Mustafa Kamaci/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) How Feeding Syrians Feeds the War
For-profit companies in Washington, D.C., are giving bread to starving Syrians. But despite best intentions, they are making peace harder to achieve.
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RaoBhandariArt The Poisoned Waters of Punjab
Mothers in the Indian state of Punjab say the water has rendered them infertile -- claims that researchers support but that the government laughs off.
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GettyImages-52596077_960 Austria Out-Eats America, but America Is Still Fatter
The onetime heavyweight champ has been ousted.
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GettyImages-81285812 WHO: Processed Meat Causes Cancer in Humans
The WHO's research arms says processed and red meats can cause cancer.
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Oxfam's Female Food Hereo program in Kisanga village, Aug. 4, 2015 The Real Farmers of Tanzania
Oxfam is funding a reality TV show to try to empower women in the country’s anemic agricultural sector. But is it working?
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An elderly Albanian woman brings out of her home in Lazarat village, seized marijuana plants on June 20, 2014. Police have been laying siege to the village of Lazarat since June 16, 2014, when an operation to destroy a huge drugs stockpile was repelled by heavy weapons fire, including anti-tank missiles and grenades. Albania is Europe's leading cannabis producer despite efforts by authorities, which claim to destroy between 90,000 and 130,000 cannabis plants every year. AFP PHOTO / GENT SHKULLAKU (Photo credit should read GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP/Getty Images) Albania Claims to Have Destroyed Almost All of the Country’s Marijuana
In its latest crackdown on marijuana growth, Albania claims to have destroyed nearly all of the country's drug crop.
