2012-05-01 The Limits to Organic Farming in Feeding the World
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Organic farming avoids the use of chemical pesticides and manmade fertilizers. Supporters…
2012-04-24 Teaching Coffee Farmers About the Birds and the Bees
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. The University of Georgia is a respected research university. Thirty-five thousand students…
2012-04-17 From Ancient Farmers, Lessons for Today’s Amazon
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. South America’s Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest and river system on…
2012-04-10 A Call for Equal Rights for Women Farmers
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new report says if women farmers had the same rights as…
2012-04-03 New Findings About Loss of Bees
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Bees add an estimated eighteen billion dollars a year to the value…
2012-03-27 Water Problems and the World
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A new American intelligence report says water-related problems will likely increase tensions…
2012-03-20 For Meat Lovers, the Challenge of Faking It
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some people in the Netherlands are spending three hundred thirty thousand dollars…
2012-03-13 Making Power From Coconut Shells, Mango Pits
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Seth DeBolt is a plant scientist at the University of Kentucky in…
2012-03-06 The Appeal of Urban Farming
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Old properties and empty lots in cities and towns around the United…
2012-02-28 Friends With Benefits, in the Plant World
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Companion planting is the idea that some kinds of plants can help…
2012-02-21 Putting Agriculture at the Center of Climate Talks
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. This June in Brazil, delegates will mark the twentieth anniversary of what…
2012-02-14 Will Cost of Cocoa Raise the Price of Valentine’s Day?
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Valentine’s Day, February fourteenth, is one of the biggest days of the…
2012-01-31 Grow It Yourself: Diving Into Aquaponics
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Aquaponics is the idea of producing vegetables and fish in the same…
2012-01-24 Farmers Learning Limits of Popular Herbicide
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Pigweed spreads fast and grows as tall as two meters. This weed…
2012-01-17 Steps Toward Drought-Resistant Crops, ‘Designer’ Rice
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A discovery in a laboratory could help lead to new generation of…