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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network
By Richard Manning
The Dirty Secret on the Farm
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August 26, 2010: Ten thousand years of history suggest that "sustainable agriculture" may be an illusion. Richard Manning reviews Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.
The Big Burn
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December 1, 2009: Richard Manning reviews Timothy Egan's story of one of the biggest wildfires in U.S. history
Graze Anatomy
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February 27, 2009: Here's a modest proposal for an agricultural revolution: Make beef with grass instead of corn, as nature intended.
Our Trial By Fire
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December 1, 2007: While October's California fires grabbed the headlines, those in the Rocky Mountain West were even worse. In his dispatch from Montana, the author ponders a burning land in the era of global warming.
Africa's Next Green Revolution
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September 1, 2007: The world's billion and a half poorest people -- the quarter of humanity malnourished to the point of brain damage and deformity -- are mostly rural and live on mostly arid lands. Global warming will increase the stock of such lands, especially in Africa.
Richard Manning
Richard Manning is writing a book about rural landscapes and economy.