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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Blast Off! Momentum grows for greener ways of farming	Hal Clifford	28 Sep 2001	Main Dish
Rice as rice can be. In the humid hills of China's Yunnan province, rice farmers make their living from plots of land smaller than many American yards. High, cool, and wet, the country here is rich, yielding almost a thousand pounds of rice per acre. But farmers face a perennial scourge: rice blast. Rice blast is caused by a fungus that cuts off nutrients to the rice seed head and destroys crops. It thrives in r ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

They Paved Pears and Rice and Put Up a Parking Lot Pavement is replacing the world's croplands	Lester R. Brown	01 Mar 2001	Main Dish
As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving over of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four-fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, India, placemaking, United States (all these topics)