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Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak

July 27, 2015
Guinea Forest Region in 2014

By Rob Wallace The notion of a neoliberal Ebola is so beyond the pale as to send leading lights in ecology and health into apoplectic fits. Here’s one of bestseller David Quammen’s five tweets denouncing …

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How the Great Food War Will Be Won

January 12, 2015
Dustbowl and soil erosion USA, 1935's

By Jonathan Latham, PhD By conventional wisdom it is excellent news. Researchers from Iowa have shown that organic farming methods can yield almost as highly as pesticide-intensive methods. Other researchers, from Berkeley, California, have reached a …

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