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Koch Quoted in BBC Article on Dubai, Desertification

January 27, 2022
Desertification, the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation or inappropriate agriculture, has become rampant in the United Arab Emirates. Natalie Koch, associate professor of geography and the environment, talks more about it in the BBC article, "How Dubai is pushing back its encroaching deserts."

See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, Middle East & North Africa

Ethan Coffel awarded three-year NSF grant to study climate-crop cycle

April 22, 2021
Coffel, professor of geography and the environment, hopes to use crop-climate cycles as a way to assess the future risk of climate-driven food insecurity.

See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, Grant Awards

Dickey weighs in on USDA union disagreement in Bloomberg Law article

July 21, 2020

See related: Agriculture, Federal, Labor, United States

Lovely speaks with Axios about US agriculture sector, tariffs

March 12, 2020

See related: Agriculture, COVID-19, Economic Policy, Trade, United States

Lovely talks to Marketplace about weaknesses in US manufacturing

November 7, 2019

"We’re seeing the slowdown hit the Midwest, the farm belt," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "And a big slowdown in business investment, capital equipment purchases, is hitting states like Pennsylvania and Illinois." 

See related: Agriculture, Trade, United States

Philip Curtis '10 BA (Geo) article on forest loss published in Science

September 17, 2018

See related: Agriculture

PhD student Fabiola Ortiz discusses harassment on NY farms with NPR

February 15, 2018

See related: Agriculture

Schewe study on dairy herd health and antibiotic use published in Journal of Rural Studies

January 31, 2018

See related: Agriculture, Energy, Religion, Sustainability

Sadanandan weighs in on farmer suicides in India on Climate Central

August 11, 2017

See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, South Asia

Purser report on treatment of dairy farmworkers cited in NY Times

July 20, 2017

See related: Agriculture, Labor

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