
RAFT Forgotten Fruits Chicago
Gary Nabhan on what the RAFT alliance is about.
RAFT Forgotten Fruits Chicago
Gary Nabhan on what the RAFT alliance is about.
forty days of fearing the worst could be happening worlds falling apart hospitals filling their beds loved ones barely breathing…
Dirt: So you occasionally write about us? Gary: Well yes, on occasion. Why? Dirt: What do you think entitles you…
Fences and walls erected along international boundaries in the name of national security have unintended but significant consequences for biodiversity…
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When President Trump initiated his trade tariff wars with China a year ago, economists warned that it could precipitate the…
The bulldozing of rare cacti and other species at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona for the Trump border wall has caused much controversy. But as it happens, this isn’t the first time bulldozers have altered this site.
In America’s farm country, the fear is palpable. In recent months, I’ve talked to dairy farm owners in Wisconsin, grain…
How do adversaries find common ground? How do they work together to find common goals and interests? Food from the…
Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation reaffirmed the modern relevancy of a sacred site in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument impacted by border wall construction.
A group of Tohono O’odham, Hia C-ed O’odham, Pascua Yaqui and their non-Indigenous allies gathered, Sunday, March 8, beside the pond fed by Quitobaquito Springs to discuss how building the border wall and pumping local groundwater to make cement is harming the area cherished by the local Indigenous peoples.
Marlene Vazquez is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. She said she regularly visits Quitobaquito Springs, but she’s seen the landscape change to the recent changes.
In a Southwest that’s getting hotter and drier while its population steadily grows, ecologists and Indigenous food activists are increasingly…
In the already-scorching Southwest, a group of scientists, ranchers and farmers are figuring out how to adapt the current agricultural…
We propose that comparisons of wild and domesticated Capsicum species can serve as a model system for elucidating how crop…
National Guardsmen, Go Home! Today 330 National Guard troops came to the Arizona-Sonora border 12 miles south of our home,…
Some paradigm shifts happen with the slow accumulation of evidence that challenges business-as-usual, and sets society on another trajectory. Other…
In the Coronado National Memorial — where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona — contractors are…