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The government is impoverishing us," said a sorghum farmer there, who asked to remain anonymous to

by Michele Abbott and Deborah CohenStreet food is a universal and ancient tradition.... In 2007, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations estimated 2.5 billion people eat street food every day.... Yet street foods comprise a major source of income and employment for the urban poor....

OSLO( Reuters)-A vault built on an Arctic mountainside to preserve the world's crop seeds from war, disease and other catastrophes will receive new deposits on Monday, including one from the first organisation that made a withdrawal from the facility. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, on Spitsbergen island halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is only opened a few times a year to limit its seed banks' exposure to the outside world.On Monday, gene banks from Sudan, Uganda, New Zealand

COPENHAGEN – An Arctic seed vault on Norway's Spitsbergen island has received new samples from the largest number of depositors since 2020, reflecting fear about the threat of conflict and climate change to food security, a custodian of the facility said on Oct 23. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, set deep inside a mountain to withstand disasters from nuclear war to global warming, was launched in 2008 as a backup for the world's gene banks that store the genetic code for thousands of plant speci

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadGENEVA( Reuters)-More than 700, 000 people have been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday, blaming climate change for the worst floods in some parts of the African country in nearly 60 years. FILE PHOTO: Children play in floodwaters at the airstrip after the River Nile broke the dykes in Pibor, Greater Pibor Administrative Area, South Sudan October 6, 2020.... REUTERS/ Andreea Campeanu “ The country is on the front line of

In fact, farmers suffered a$ 6.3 billion loss in 2018 alone during that time because of the tariffs.” The GAO report was requested by the Senate Agriculture Committee chaired by Michigan Democratic Sen.... Debbie Stabenow.“ This report confirms that the Trump USDA picked winners and losers in their trade aid programs and left everyone else behind," Stabenow said in a statement.... China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union, Turkey, and India responded with tariffs targeting U.S. products, inclu

Rising temperatures, a direct result of climate change, are aggravating water, food, and biodiversity insecurity in Pakistan and India, which may worsen in years to come, said environmentalists based in the region.An intense heatwave is currently sweeping through the two nuclear-armed neighbors with temperatures hitting 51 degrees Celsius( 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Pakistan and 49 degrees Celsius in India. With forecasts predicting that the wave will keep up the heat through the coming days,

” I yelled out of my car window.“ No!... “ And I mean country.” She hasn’t seen the zebras, either.... ” Joshua DuBois said in a tweet last month, describing the conversation with his 6-year-old son....

CAJEME, Mexico— In the parched hills of southern Sonora, Marco Antonio Gutierrez paced around a clearing, counting the dead.... “ There used to be big ranches here.... Now it’s pure sorrow.” Two years of extreme drought have turned large stretches of northern Mexico into a boneyard....