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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 …

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 …
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, …
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 …