Conflict Threatens Mali Farming The conflict in northern Mali is threatening the countrys food security. Many farmers are among the hundreds of thousands of people whove been displaced. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said the next plantin...
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More Land Being Used for Organic Farming More land around the world is being dedicated to organic farming. The Worldwatch Institute says since 1999 theres been a more than three-fold increase to 37 million hectares. Organic farming is farming without...
Agriculture Report - Serving Farm-Fresh Meals -- at the Farm From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in Special English. Farm to table is the name of a movement that encourages people to eat locally grown food. The farm-to-table ide...
On Maryland Family Farm, Seeking the Perfect Pumpkin for Halloween The Huffer Family Farm is a busy place each October, as families wander through the 6-hectare Jumbos Pumpkin Patch, searching for the perfect pumpkin. Sarah Cosgrove has been coming t...
Serving Farm-Fresh Meals at the Farm Just even that out with the new table, said Jim Denevan as he arranged tables for more than a hundred dinner guests on Briars Farmstead in rural Virginia. He and his eight-member crew arrived the night before. Che...
Using Innovation to Boost Farming Innovation will be the theme at the upcoming Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development. It gets under way later this month in Uruguay. The conference, known as GCARD II, will consider the challenges...
BEIJING, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Prices of farm produce in China have inched up for the fifth straight week during the week ending August 19, the Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday. The wholesale cost of 18 types of vegetables monitored across 36 major ci...
Amid Drought, Midwest Farmers Embrace Changes to Farm Bill Legislation commonly known as the U.S. Farm Bill expires at the end of September. The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, its formal name, comes up for renewal every five years. It directs th...
Agriculture Report - Growing a Farm With Crowd-Sourced Money This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Kickstarter is a website where people give money to support creative projects. It started in two thousand nine, mostly to help artists an...