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fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire

Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster

… Between the 1940s and 1960s, as the global production of food boomed, with a high yielding variety of seeds and … they were also looking at ways to increase their yield of food production as during, you know, hundreds of years of colonization, much of the food production bases had been destroyed. So it was this …
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

… alone. In subsequent days, other supplies would follow: food, fuel, ammunition, spare parts, medicine, maps, … industries or companies that support them, eat processed food from fertilizer-fed fields (and cover left-overs in …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… shortage, with world rice prices doubling and violent food protests erupting across the globe. Pastoral livestock … Australia's 22 or so million people could produce enough food for 70 million people—and food exports became a cornerstone of the economy. The Snowy …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… has long fed Nairobi with staple commodities and prepared foods, particularly in the 1990s, but they stood in the way … countries, Kenya is no longer self-sufficient in terms of food production. The World Bank's focus on exports intended … debts has left many farmers dependent on cash-bought food, and damaged Kenya's already weak governmental …
 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

… chorizo.  Oaxaca n cuisine was the first endemic Mexican food to syncretize with Spanish food. Oaxaca  cheese is an adapted form of mozzarella. …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… a cutaway view of an underground habitat area for growing food ( left ). A fictional Mars tourism poster commissioned … project demonstrated that a habitat could successfully use food crops and other plants to uphold the exchange of oxygen … saturated environments, suggesting they could be the food of the future as climate change intensifies. Even the …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… has introduced increased deprivation in terms of access to food and fuel. When you have conflict with these key ports, it's not that they don't have access to food, but it's distributing food, humanitarian aid, fuel, etc. You have all these …
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.

The Politics of Compassion

… establish minimum wages, subsidize school lunches, develop food stamps, extend public housing, create medical care for …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… tightened their grip on the country's irrigation system, food distribution network, labor conscription mechanisms, …
A KFC in Hanoi, Vietnam

Kentucky Fried Globalization

… like reports that appeared whenever a new American fast food chain gained its first foothold in China. Once again, …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… existence of unremitting toil and prayer, where sleep and food were considered weaknesses of the flesh.” What indeed? … forms of work (logging in particular) with insufficient food and clothing and broken, inappropriate tools. On …