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A Mayan Farming Technique to Fight Guatemala's Food Insecurity

by Isabella Rolz

The K'uxu'rum system improves crop yields and enables farmers to adapt to climate extremes

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Farmer and agrochemical worker Annasso More was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy because of overexposure to toxins, making it difficult for him to walk.

In India, Climate Change Drives Pesticide Use, Harming Farmers' Health

by Sanket Jain

As temperatures rise, farmworkers turn to using more potent pesticides, putting themselves at further risk

A woman uses her hands to help irrigate a crop of onions in a field.
Poverty

The Mysterious Kidney Illness Rising Among Sri Lankan Farmers

by Carrie Arnold

Are pesticides in drinking water to blame for kidney disease among young farmers?

a woman walks in a field
Food

You Can’t Eat Tobacco

by Louisa Ewald, Gabriela F. Gil, Jeffrey Drope, Hebe Gouda, Kerstin Schotte

Transitioning away from tobacco farming can improve food security

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Food

Rethinking Farming in Rwanda

by Susan K. Barnett

The Rwandan Institute for Conservation Agriculture wants to empower small farmers

A close up image of a field of winter wheat growing outside Bashtanka, in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, on June 9, 2022
Food

Seeds: An Unlikely Casualty of the War in Ukraine

How history—and future crops—were lost when Russia attacked a scientific warehouse for valuable plants and seeds

A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by William Young Ottley (1771-1836). The picture is of a pencil drawing of a pig and her pups. CC BY 4.0 via Wellcome Collection
Food

Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats

by Ravensara S. Travillian

COVID-19 is scary, and so are disease outbreaks in animals—they cause great economic devastation and disrupt human lives

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?