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GM Crops: An Uneasy Truce Hangs Over Europe
EU member states have now exercised a new conditional legal right to prevent GM crops from being cultivated within their own territories.
A Tale of Two Food Prizes
What's in a prize? The politics of distribution versus growth.
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Education for Refugees Can Help Save Syria’s Lost Generation
With limited and interrupted education, what does the future hold for these children - and for the future of Syria?
Feeding a New Economy: Local Food Systems in the South
A renewed focus local foods revitalizes communities and improves health while meeting the demands of a hungry nation.
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How to Fix Environmental Woes in Buenos Aires Shantytown
As soon as you enter Villa Inflamable you taste and feel chemicals and dust particles in your throat, saliva and lungs.
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The Families of Missing Migrants and Refugees May Never Know Their Fates
As it stands, the states of Europe have consistently failed to provide such answers.
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New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking
It's a new kind of “frackademia.”
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Illegal Logging Threatens Indigenous Rights and Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon
Peru must protect these people of the Amazon.
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Congress Lets Sun Set on Land and Water Conservation Fund
The nation's most successful conservation program is in jeopardy.
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Netflix’s Offer of Paid Family Leave Reflects Larger Divide in Tech
A new and improved benefit only applies to salaried employees in its web division.