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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 …
Malawi

A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi

… in Livingstonia occurs at a small market. Traders sell food and other groceries, not luxuries, and barbershops do a … Malawi. In the Livingstonia region, the staple food of the people in is nsima, a hard porridge eaten with …
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 …
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

… mosquitoes, cannot transmit it, toilet seats, or by sharing food or drink. Following HIV infection, we know that HIV … was groups like ACT UP really put a lot of pressure on the Food and Drug Administration, to cause them to think …
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.

The Marshall Plan

… state, exacerbated by harsh winters and dismal supply of food and fuel.  Officials soon realized that loans from …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… issue today. And I would point to specifically, the role of food production and environmental impacts on food production, leading up to the Arab Spring because … Arab Spring, one of the major complaints was the price of food, especially bread, right? And the slogan was "Adala …
Glacial ice on Lake Baikal

Climate Change and Human Life

… because those are the ones that affect our ability to get food, our ability to survive, and our relationship to …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… kind of energy transition? And so I leave that as a little food for thought when we think about what were the costs, … ethanol industry has been more explicitly tied to food, rising food prices, and other things that the sugar-based ethanol …