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25 June 2020
Mexico City, Mexico
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1500-3000 Words
In New Mexico, the world’s largest wholesale food market managed to contain the spread of Covid-19 by taking an aggressive, early intervention course of action that included widespread testing, contact tracing and iso...
Yellowstone Public Radio
Sarah Brown
25 June 2020
Billings, Montana, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
As the traditional food supply chain is upended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local food systems in Montana are connecting farmers and ranchers with buyers. The Yellowstone Valley Food Hub, a cooperative that started ...
23 June 2020
Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
As the novel coronavirus disrupts how farmers get their products to consumers, many of them are looking for mental health resources to manage their stress. While the stigma of mental health issues prevents some farmer...
18 June 2020
Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Employees at 7 Yakima Valley fruit packing plants, who are predominately Latinx, went on strike to protest inadequate protection and pay during the Covid-19 pandemic. Agricultural workers accounted for nearly one-fift...
16 June 2020
Massachusetts, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Dairy farmers in Massachusetts are working with Vanguard Renewables, a food waste energy company, and Dominion Energy, an electric utility company, to capture manure methane gas from cows and convert it into natural g...
15 June 2020
Wagram, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A former North Carolina prison has been reclaimed by the nonprofit Growing Change to teach sustainable farming to youth who otherwise might be doomed to their own prison terms without an effective intervention. The 9-...
Inter Press Service News Agency
Daniel Gutman
10 June 2020
Entre Rios, Argentina
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800-1500 Words
Solar energy has provided an affordable and efficient source of energy to rural farmers in Argentina, who live too far off the electrical grid and have traditionally relied on powerful diesel-fueled water pumps. Solar...
edibleWOW
Kate Roff
Special Edition 2020
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
During the COVID-19 pandemic, small farmers in Michigan are coming up with different business models in order to get their produce into consumers’ hands. Fisheye Farms in Detroit created a community-supported agricult...
May/June 2020
United States
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Over 3000 Words
Indigo Agriculture, an ag-tech startup, is looking to pay farmers to draw carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the ground, which could help mitigate the effects of climate change and lower greenhouse gas emissi...
29 May 2020
South Africa
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Over 3000 Words
South Africa took decisive steps to contain the spread of Covid-19, including closing borders, requiring strict social distancing, and making screening and testing available nationwide. The lock-down, however, made ci...
28 May 2020
Tanzania
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1500-3000 Words
A nongovernmental organization, Sanku, invented a new technology that allows a machine to mix in the right amount of basic nutrients into flour that children and others need. By working directly with the millers and c...
The Guardian
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
28 May 2020
Khonoma, Nagaland, India
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800-1500 Words
Despite the lockdown and loss of tourism income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the village of Kohonoma in India has been able to maintain a high level of food security for its people. Because of previous legal changes ...
28 May 2020
Depalpur, Punjab, Pakistan
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1500-3000 Words
As locust swarms threaten crops in Pakistan, a pilot program offers farmers a way to get rid of the pests without using insecticides that harm the environment, while also earning money. Once farmers trap the locusts a...
24 May 2020
Monument Valley, Utah, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As a response to the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted food supply chains, especially in remote parts of the Navajo Nation, the new “Seeds and Sheep” program is mailing seeds to families so they can gro...
NPR
Patrícia Monteiro
24 May 2020
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Photojournalism
800-1500 Words
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Rafael Duckur, an organic food producer in Brazil, started Pertim, a network of farmers working to help families in neighborhoods who can’t meet their basic needs. The group buys food lik...
Yes! Magazine
Stephanie Hiller
21 May 2020
California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
To help small farmers stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic, some organizations in California are aiding in their transition to community supported agriculture, or CSA, models that directly connect farmers to consu...
21 May 2020
Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
More than a dozen states are participating in a SNAP program, allowing people experiencing economic hardship to purchase food online from retailers. While only certain online retailers allow for food stamp purchases a...
19 May 2020
New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
Meadows + More is a farm in New Jersey that specializes in edible wild plants and its owner, Tama Matsuoka Wong, seeks to educate people about the important role wild plants could play in future food systems if disast...
17 May 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Community Services Unlimited (CSU) is a local organization in Southern California that is helping to increase access to healthy foods for families all year round, but especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlik...
14 May 2020
Montana, United States
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800-1500 Words
Farmers and ranchers across Montana are finding ways to share their products locally during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen livestock prices fall and food banks face higher demand. While some agricultural produc...
14 May 2020
Newark, New Jersey, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Do-Good Auto Coalition in northern New Jersey is recruiting car dealerships and automakers to help shuttle supplies and food to people experiencing economic hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic. The closing of r...
14 May 2020
United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Supply chains have been disrupted with the restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic, and farmers are suffering from a lack of buying customers. Meanwhile, food banks are in dire straits as more and more people...
Grady Newsource
Anne Henley Walker
7 May 2020
Athens, Georgia, United States
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Under 800 Words
When restaurants and farmers markers shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hearts of Harvest Farm teamed up with the drive-thru restaurant Cafe Racer to sell their produce to people in the Athens/Atlanta area. They ...
6 May 2020
Manchester, New Hampshire, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Fresh Start Farms is a program by the New Hampshire Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success that invites refugees in the state to apply their farming skills here in America to earn an income. Many of the refuge...
MIT Technology Review
Karen Hao
6 May 2020
China
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1500-3000 Words
Online retailers in China launched rural live-streaming initiatives to aid farmers in selling their products directly to consumers. After traditional selling methods were halted due to the novel coronavirus, farmers n...
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