farming

Size Isn't Everything

17 February, 2010 | Emily McGiffin
 The day that forever changed Dr. Salvatore Ceccarelli's career was much like any other. Ceccarelli, a successful Italian plant breeder who works at an agricultural research centre in Syria, was making routine notes on a long row of barley test plots. Glancing up between plots, Ceccarelli noticed the farmer from a nearby cottage surveying the collection with interest. As he reached the end of the row, Ceccarelli closed his notebook and asked casually, "Well? What do you think?" ...

Street Food

28 May, 2009 | Mairon Giovani Bastos Lima

When I arrived from Brazil to start my studies in Canada, I felt ready to live in a new country and ready to adjust myself to a different food culture. I still believe I was right about the first feeling. But it took me only a few hours to realize how mistaken I was about the second. ...

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