In recent months, the Horn of Africa has been invaded by desert locusts that have consumed food crops and pasture. For Kenya, it is the worst infestation in 70 years.
Sara Roy of Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern studies...has written that “innocent human beings, most of them young, are slowly being poisoned in Gaza by the water drink and likely by the soil in which they plant.”
The socialist island outperforms advanced capitalist countries including Britain and the United States, which has subjected Cuba to a punitive six-decades-long economic blockade.
Israel’s spraying “has created a dead zone of entire swathes of formerly arable land.”
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“Campesinos” are driving the evolution of maize in North America
Meanwhile, food insecurity among new immigrant families has nearly doubled in the last decade.
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