What do Victoria’s Secret and Monsanto have in common? They’re both interested in growing cotton in Burkina Faso.
Victoria’s Secret is interested in organic cotton, grown by women farmers working with Helvetas—a Swiss NGO– in rural...
THE SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW comes to the Bay Area this week, from October 28-31, 2010.
The event is the oldest continuously operating international antiques show on the West Coast.
The Show features approximately seventy dealers...
I am coming up on my third winter in Sweden. Third winter! For the past month, I have been more serious and thoughtful with my posts; especially controversial. Hell, who doesn’t love controversy and...
co·op·er·a·tive (k - p r- -t v, - -r t v, - p r -). adj. 1. Done in cooperation with others: a cooperative effort. 2. Marked by willingness to cooperatee.
I'm not officially a member...
Are you fed up with Japan’s dysfunctional politics? If you want to have a strong spirit to try to change it, this might help you: “Fushimi-no-Ryoma (Ryoma in Fushimi)”.
It is a Japanese sake. It consists...
Hydraulic Engineering
Spanish conquistadors had great respect for the crops developed by the indigenous farmers of the Americas. A full 60 percent of the food these foreigners ate every day originated in the region. But the...
Madame Coulibaly does something that many seed dealers in Mali and other parts of Africa usually don’t —she keeps her prices low enough for small, cash-scarce farmers to afford. And instead of packaging seeds in...
This is the first blog in a series about our visit with the International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics in Niger.
At first glance, the road from Niamey to Tanka village in Niger looks...
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