farmers

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are currently inviting innovators to apply for three grant opportunities: … Read More»

Bordering an interstate highway in Arkansas, a giant billboard with a photo of a stoic-looking farmer watches over the speeding traffic. … Read More»

Capitalism: A Ghost Story Rockefeller to Mandela, Vedanta to Anna Hazare.... How long can the cardinals of corporate gospel buy up our protests? … Read More»

September 10 is observed as Suicide Prevention Day throughout the world. But the day has had no significance for the farmers of India. … Read More»

Can one person change the world? Of course! As Melinda Gates says, “The future is not fixed. … Read More»

As we file this article, Port-au-Prince is thick with the smoke of burning tires and with gunfire. … Read More»

Women farm workers in rural India labor as hard as men do, but are paid half of what men are. … Read More»

A group of women have broken into what has been a male bastion for centuries: Farming. … Read More»

Jonas Deronzil is a farmer from the village of Mogé in Haiti’s fertile Artibonite Valley, and one of about 2,000 members of a production and marketing cooperative. … Read More»

Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Heads Together Small Producers of Haiti) is the oldest peasant group in Haiti, born covertly in 1970 during the Duvalier dictatorship. … Read More»