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Topic: agribusiness

Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

How mass deportations will hurt farms

Griffin Eckstein
Cotton farmer in India (Andrew Flachs)

Technology isn't making us happier

Andrew Flachs
The prices farmers receive for crops do not cover all the costs of keeping farms viable, not to mention the extra costs of ecological or regenerative farming systems. The farm crisis is not over. (Pixabay/Pexels)

Big problems on small family farms

Elizabeth Henderson - Independent Media Institute
A banana plantation in the village of San Jose, in the province Mindanao. Hundreds of families from the tribe of Manobo-Higaonon were displaced when their houses were demolished in July 2018 by local security men following a court order in favor of a businessman occupying 307 hectares of their ancestral domain. (Jeoffrey Maitem / Global Witness)

The toll of agribusiness

Greta Moran - Civil Eats
(Getty/Rasica)

The future of food data, not desire

Manny Howard
FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2011 file photo, signs are displayed at the Cargill plant in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) (AP)

Is Cargill really ending deforestation?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(Shutterstock)

3 companies control half of all seeds

Mark Schapiro
Farmers march with a sign that reads "Remove farming from NAFTA" in Mexico City. (AP/Gustavo Martinez Contreras)

“We are workers, not slaves”

Annelise Orleck
(Reuters/Mike Blake)

Put food policy on the table

Jim Hightower
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85757p1.html'>StudioSmart</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Listen to the bees

Reynard Loki - Alternet
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