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Child labour rampant in tobacco industry

The Observer 25 Jun 2018

The companies say they monitor child labour and remove children from the fields to go to school, but experts have told the Guardian that the numbers are going up, not down, as tobacco growing increases in Africa and Asia. Q&A How hazardous are tobacco farming conditions? ... Farming tobacco to produce the leaf that fills cigarettes can involve....

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Farm Aid's Music and Food Festival Heads to Connecticut on Sat., Sept. 22

Market Watch 25 Jun 2018

This year, the organization undertakes the planning of Farm Aid 2018 in an economic climate similar to the one that sparked the first Farm Aid concert. Net farm income has dropped 53 percent since 2013 and median farm income is expected to be -$1,316 in 2018 ... Farm Aid 2018 sponsors include Bonterra Organic Vineyards, Patagonia Workwear, New Belgium Brewery, Horizon Organic and Pete and Gerry's Organic ... SOURCE Farm Aid....

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At Jefferson Farm and Gardens, visitors learn gardening and butterflies

Columbia Missourian 25 Jun 2018

Mules, chickens, sheep and butterflies were just a few of the animals on display at the second annual Butterfly Festival at Jefferson Farm and Garden this weekend, run by the�The Heart of Missouri Master Gardens organization.� ... The organization runs the Jefferson Farm and Garden. MU helped pay for the butterfly house, but the organization runs the daily operations and upkeep of the farm.�....

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Greens growers in Attleboro branch out to marijuana

The Sun Chronicle 25 Jun 2018

They grow their crops, organic micro-greens, in pans neatly arranged on wooden racks, under special growing lights behind high brick walls wrapped around 15,000 square feet of floor space in an old factory at 81 West St ... The Irving call their indoor organic farm “2 Friends Farm” because it was founded when they were just friends more than five years ago ... Trays of basil grow under fluorescent lights at 2 Friends Farm in Attleboro....

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Tobacco: activist investors pressure £20bn companies over child labour

The Guardian 25 Jun 2018

Africa ... Baldemar Velasquez, who in 1967 set up the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (Floc), which represents 10,000 migrant workers across several US states such as Kentucky and North Carolina, said the union had been talking to BAT for the last four years about improving pay and working conditions for those working in tobacco fields. “We as farm workers do the most arduous jobs in this industry,” he told shareholders at the AGM....

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Nigeria: 'Deeply unfortunate killings' as 86 reported dead

Bozeman Daily Chronicle 25 Jun 2018

Deadly clashes between herders and farmers in central Nigeria are a growing security concern in Africa's most populous country, which is roughly split between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south ... Follow Africa news at https.//twitter.com/AP—Africa....

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Family's shock after top strawberry farmer slain on wife's birthday

Independent online (SA) 25 Jun 2018

Cape Town - The Stellenbosch community has rallied in support of the widow of slain owner of the Mooiberge Strawberry Farm and Stall, Jeffrey Zetler, murdered near his farm on his wife Beverly’s 59th birthday ... The 62-year-old was well known and respected in the agricultural sector and his strawberry farms reportedly produce 60% of the strawberries for the major retailers in South Africa, as well as most of the smaller supermarkets....

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Sporting clays events support FFA and 4-H programs

Reflector 25 Jun 2018

AgCarolina Farm Credit, Cape Fear Farm Credit, and Carolina Farm Credit will host the second annual Pull for Youth Sporting Clays events benefitting North Carolina 4-H and FFA programs ... Those participating in this event will be helping Farm Credit support the future of agriculture and rebuild rural America by giving back to 4-H and FFA programs....

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86 killed in central Nigeria as farmers, herders clash

Bozeman Daily Chronicle 25 Jun 2018

Deadly clashes between herders and farmers in central Nigeria are a growing security concern in Africa's most populous country, which is roughly split between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south ... — are forced south into more populated farming communities in search of safe grazing ... Follow Africa news at https.//twitter.com/AP—Africa....

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AP PHOTOS: Nameless migrant erases his history with silence

Wtop 25 Jun 2018

He survived the forced walk to the Niger border post of Assamaka, where the International Organization for Migrations has picked up many of the expelled African migrants and taken them to the Arlit transit center. From there, the IOM normally organizes transport home for the men, women and children who have been expelled ... Algeria abandons 13,000 migrants in the Sahara Africa News Walk or die....

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Clashes in Nigeria between farmers and herders kill 86

BBC News 25 Jun 2018

In Nigeria's central region settled farming communities and nomadic cattle herders often clash - usually over access to land and grazing rights ... Who are the Fulani herdsmen?. They are believed to be the largest semi-nomadic group in the world, and are found across West and Central Africa - from Senegal to the Central African Republic ... They herd their animals across vast areas, frequently clashing with farming communities ... ....

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52 Faces of Community: Jerry Eubanks

New Bern Sun Journal 25 Jun 2018

He was raised on a tobacco and dairy farm that was in his family for over two generations. He and Shirley, his wife of 52 years, still reside on part of that farm property today.Serving others has always come naturally for Jerry. Although he is and has been involved in countless community projects and organizations, Jerry always makes sure to put forth his best effort for every one of them.“I’m here to serve, ... ....

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C-FORCE: Robot bees are on their way -- be afraid

The Bryan Eagle 25 Jun 2018

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, of the 100 crops that account for 90 percent of the food eaten around the globe, 71 rely on bee pollination ... Goulson's recommended action bears repeating -- to make this a call for a movement toward farming methods that minimize pesticide use, encourage natural enemies of crop pests, and support biodiversity and healthy soils....

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