Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could be its final strike.
The
Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could be its final strike.
The…
When it was built just before the Civil War, the Nottoway Plantation House had about 80 acres of front yard between it and the Mississippi River. Today a dike that protects Nottoway from the Mighty…
New Orleans is back.
Let me explain. The first trip I made here was in 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina crippled the city by flooding 80 percent of the Big Easy.
My 2009 trip…
With tsunami warnings and advisories issued for Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast, and heavy rains causing floods on the East Coast, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is providing…
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The rice harvest in northwestern Haiti is likely to suffer over widespread fear among farmers about cholera contamination, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced this week.
Haiti’s cholera outbreak, which has sickened almost 150,000…
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A Cholera outbreak continues to spread in earthquak-ravaged Haiti. Late last week, the Pan American Health Organization announced that the death toll in the outbreak has risen from 442 three days ago to 501, while…
Continue Reading Floodwaters Increase Cholera Deaths in Haiti
Public health authorities are furiously working to contain and understand the origins of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed more than 300 people and hospitalized almost 5,000.
Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease…
Continue Reading Did Haiti Cholera Strain Originate in South Asia?
After torrential downpour soaked their fields, some soybean farmers are being advised that they may have to destroy their crops as a food safety precaution.
At issue is a 2009 notice from the U.S. Food…
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This week marks the beginning of hurricane season, and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting an “active to extremely active” season in the Atlantic Hurricane Basin, consumers need to prepare now to…
The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is a powerful example of how the breakdown of a nation’s local food system and its reliance on food imports has made international trade and subsidies necessary year-round…