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features.csmonitor.com - 2/27/2009
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Women own nearly half of Iowa’s farmland. But they find they have a common problem: The men they hire to farm their land often don’t treat it with the tender care they expect – and often won’t listen when they complain about it.
Women from three counties near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, discovered ...
ethicurean.com - 3/4/2009
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ethicurean.com —
In late 2006, I was driving by corn
fields in eastern Iowa when Tom Ashbrook’s national NPR
show “On Point” came on the radio. The topic was ethanol. Among the commentators was an ag economist from Iowa State — which seems ...
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Down (and out) on the farm: When even the good years ...
onearth.org - 3/4/2009
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onearth.org —
Will Winter and Todd Churchill have a plan.
It's simple, it's workable, and if enough people do
it, it will shrink our carbon footprint, expand biodiversity and wildlife habitat, promote human health, humanize farming, control rampant flooding, ...
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Graze Anatomy
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/5/2009
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greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com —
At colleges around the country, students seem to
be flocking to environmental studies courses.
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Environmental Studies Enrollment Soars
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Food & agriculture - Feb 27
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... saving the insects. A third of our food relies on bees for pollination. Both the US and UK report losing a third of their bees last year. Other European countries have seen major die-offs too: Italy, for example, said it lost nearly half its bees last year. The deaths are now spreading to Asia, with reports in India and suspected cases in China. But while individual "sub-lethal stresses" such as infections are implicated, we know little about how they add together. (16 February 2009) Women lead a farming revolution in Iowa Mark Clayton, The Christian Science Monitor Women ...
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