Travel & Experiences
I am writing in reference to the intriguing front-page story on “the ancient Chinese craft” of feng shui (wind-water), which is “interwoven with superstition, astrology and Chinese philosophical concept.”
Aug. 2, 1988
World & Nation
Soviet farms will introduce “new technology” in a widescale experiment designed to increase the country’s grain yields, which fell sharply below the official target rate in 1984, Izvestia reported Wednesday.
March 28, 1985
SAVING OUR SOIL: Solutions for Sustaining Earth’s Vital Resource by James Glanz (Johnson Books: $15.95; 182 pp., paperback original).
Aug. 20, 1995
Suicide bombing kills 20 in attack on Kurds of northern Iraq
Sept. 11, 2009
With 1.3 billion people to feed in a nation grappling with tainted food and polluted land, Chinese companies are investing in farmland overseas.
March 29, 2014
Journalist William Shawcross coined the apt term “compassion fatigue” to describe the feeling of powerlessness that afflicts many of us when we hear the latest grim statistics about world poverty, like the recent UNICEF report that a record 7 million children die of malnutrition each year.
Oct. 5, 1998
California
Reclamation engineers and members of Congress knew 50 years ago, when they decided to bring clear mountain waters hundreds of miles to the San Joaquin Valley for crop irrigation, that the valley’s soils would brew an environmental problem.
July 30, 2005
Science & Medicine
Re “To Feed World’s People, Modern Practices Must Supplant Organic Fads,” Commentary, June 4: Jim Wells’ touting of modern farming practices as a fix for world hunger conveniently excludes two critical issues: 1) the potential consequences that will eventually result from giant agribusinesses’ introduction of hundreds of millions of acres of untested, voluntarily regulated, mutant transgenic organisms (often falsely referred to as “genetically engineered food”) into our already fragile ecosystem; and 2) the attempt to force farmers into what amounts to indentured servitude--raising and harvesting patented mutants for the corporate bottom line while being prohibited from saving seeds for next year’s planting, a 10,000-year-old practice that’s responsible for the majority of fruits and vegetables consumed today.
June 8, 2002
The vastness of Africa south of the Sahara is matched by the awesome poverty and food shortages in some of the 38 countries that make up the region.
Oct. 10, 1990
The value of this book as an analysis of Soviet agricultural policy and performance derives from the author’s long and intimate involvement as a biologist and geneticist in the Soviet Union.
March 6, 1988