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How Female Farmers Can Help End Hunger and Malnutrition

Samantha Cowan

October 02, 2015 |

TakePart |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Burkina Faso

By supporting small-scale female farmers, Groundswell International, an NGO, is diversifying diets and combating food insecurity in countries in West Africa.

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Could adorable tiny tech backpacks save the honeybees?

Jessica Mendoza

August 25, 2015 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Australia

Concerned with colony collapse syndrome in honey bees worldwide, scientists, farmers and tech companies teamed up in Australia to create a micro-sensor that collects data on the bee's environment.

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Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future

Leah Penniman

August 10, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

With a global food crisis, farmers look for how to get long-term high yields out of difficult farmland. In Oaxaca, Mexico, farmers farm like a forest, eat low on the food chain, restore damaged land, and have reverence for the planet.

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Climate Change-Ready Rice Keeps Farmers' Fields Fertile

Amy Yee

June 04, 2015 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Soil in Bangladesh is becoming increasingly saline and infertile due to climate change. Bangladeshi farmers have begun using a saline-tolerant rice seed in order to produce an abundant crop despite salty soil.

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Myanmar's Smart Farmers & Saving Mozambique's Forests

Russell Beard Ndoni Khanyile

May 13, 2015 |

Al Jazeera |

Broadcast TV News |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Myanmar, Yangon, Yangon Region

The effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and hotter global temperatures, are already having drastic impact on many communities, especially the rural, agricultural regions of countries such as Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Mozambique. Earthrise explores how people in these communities are learning new skills, implementing new techniques, and are striving in every way possible to adapt to these environmental changes while creating hope for sustainable growth in the future.

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The Quinoa Quarrel

Lisa M. Hamilton

April 17, 2014 |

Harper's Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Bolivia, Altiplano

The solution is quinoa, the problem is a bit more complicated. As the human population increases alongside environmental challenges like water scarcity and climate change, quinoa shines as the answer to what can withstand these looming problems. But who owns this crop and do they have to share? Native to the Altiplano region in South America, this plant must be adapted to live and thrive successfully elsewhere. Despite controversy over the rights to the seed, several researchers and farmers are working to ensure the seed lives on even if the dispute drags on.

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Sprouting success in Senegal: trees offer growing solution to Sahel

Cathy Watson

June 11, 2012 |

The Guardian |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Senegal, Kaffrine

Allowing trees and crops to coexist boosts the resiliency of agricultural land. In Senegal, farmers engaged in Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) prune coppiced trees to help the stumps regrow. The practice is more practical and effective than planting new trees. The coppiced trees retain much of the existing biomass under the soil. And as the trees regrow, they help prevent erosion, retain moisture, and can even increase nitrogen levels in soil.

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