Hungry, hungry humans
In This Series
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For farmers, using pesticides is a lot like picking the wrong smartphone
"Path dependency" is when a choice of technologies hems in your future. Is that happening today as developing countries build out their farming systems?
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![What’s it like to be a small farmer in northern Ethiopia?]()
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Farm life without modern tech looks beautiful and backbreaking
A stunning video shows just how beautiful the Ethiopian landscape is -- and just how demanding the farm work is.
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![Dadie Buta, 38, in his fields in Karsa Ilela village, Arsi Negele, in the West Arsi zone in Ethiopia.]()
![Dadie Buta, 38, in his fields in Karsa Ilela village, Arsi Negele, in the West Arsi zone in Ethiopia.]()
From two Ethiopians, what small farmers really want
A new middle class can put down roots when small family farmers get the tools and education to produce more food.
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No, sorry, but Peru is not organic-food heaven
Peru may have banned GMOs, but the success it has seen in feeding its people has a lot more to do with smart economic policies.
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Instead of trying to feed the world, we should be ending poverty
Relieving poverty is the single most important step we could take toward reducing hunger -- and way more effective than boosting crop yields.
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Should big business get out of the food business?
When it comes to food and farming technology, our political and economic beliefs trump the field knowledge of what works and what doesn't.
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Farm tech isn’t a war between good and evil — it’s a quest for whatever works
Forget the ideological showdowns. Poor farmers will thrive when they find the right mix of high and low technologies that serves their needs.
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Why “get big” isn’t the answer for poor farmers around the globe
Here's why farms are getting smaller, not larger, in developing countries.
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Fewer hungry humans — but still too many
A new report from the U.N. suggests how far we've come in bringing down the total number of hungry people around the globe. But awful disparities remain.
