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Food policy experts weigh in on the possibilities of individual diet choices and sustainable production methods.
Last week, the International Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body for assessing scientific research related to climate change, released a Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Climate Change and Land. This summary outlines ways...

Se calcula que 524,000 niños trabajan inimaginables largas horas en los agotadores campos agrícolas de Estados Unidos, y todo es perfectamente legal.
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Es el último día de marzo de 2018, el día antes de Pascua, el comienzo de la temporada de la cosecha de las cebollas. Para media mañana, Berenise, de 16 años, ya había llenado algunos baldes. Al hacer su trabajo usaba unas tijeras afiladas y oxidadas...

Our staffers and contributors highlight the most urgent and exciting titles coming this fall—from fiction to non-fiction, poetry to prose.
Welcome to our fall books preview. While Pacific Standard won't be around in the fall, these books will, and we encourage you to read them! —Ted Scheinman...

Martin fled Cameroon when security forces imprisoned his father and started regularly raiding Anglophone villages. The U.S. government might send him back.
Martin heard the French-speaking policemen before he could see them. It was the first day of September in 2017 and he had been picking plantains on the far end of his family's cocoa farm in Mamfe, Cameroon, when a commotion broke out. He walked over...