Tag: Agriculture and Farming

Inside the Campaign to Save an Imperiled Cambodian Rainforest

We were seated near a lush river in the Southern Cardamom Mountains,…

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India Cities Ban Eggs, Drawing a Backlash

AHMEDABAD, India — The raid came just after sunset. Plainclothes municipal workers…

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Cultivating Olives on the Slopes of Mount Etna

In the summer of 2020, out of the blue, my father told…

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In Afghanistan, ‘Who Has the Guns Gets the Land’

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For decades, roughly a thousand families called the low-slung…

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In Louisiana, Alligator Finds a Place at the Tailgate

The alligator was so grateful, it asked to be made a part…

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A Thanksgiving History Lesson, in a Handful of Corn

These goals are part of an attempt to revive the deep, almost…

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The Searing Beauty, and Harsh Reality, of a Kentucky Tobacco Harvest

I step into the tobacco field as the first rays of sunlight…

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In Hard Times, Afghan Farmers Are Turning to Opium for Security

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — Abdul Hamid’s pomegranate trees were scarred from bullets and…

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How India’s Farmers Got Narendra Modi to Back Down

NEW DELHI — Om Prakash relied on relatives and neighbors to tend…

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