Desperate farmers put faith in Morocco king's aide
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RAS AL AIN, Morocco  - Farmers in this sun-parched Moroccan village have been waiting 50 years for drinking and irrigation water, electricity, hospitals and roads.
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Half a century after Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes.
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At Willie Nelsonâs salute to Americaâs small farmers on Sunday, some of the performers took on a tricky job: making the crowd understand that the day wasnât really about music.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.
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It seems an unlikely place for Mali's president to seek advice in times of crisis.
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It hasn't yet reached biblical proportions, but the plague of locusts currently infesting the resort town of Canc&#250;n has some residents looking to the heavens for help.
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Mohammed Ibrahim is overwhelmed by people asking for help.
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The world needs sporting heroes. They provide inspiration, a person whose feats others can seek to emulate. Twenty years ago, in a small village in Morocco with a magnificent view, a small
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BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon  - For a poor Lebanese farmer, the cannabis plant sprouting from the fertile ground of the Bekaa Valley is a blessing from God.
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The release of Mohammed Abbou gives human rights advocates hope, and perhaps a formula for more political freedoms in the North African nation.
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Mamadou Faye is a goat herder in Senegal.  We've never met, probably never will.  For the last year I've watched each month for an update on his business.  Each month I waited for news on how his venture progressed. This business partnership wasn't forged in the humid lowlands of Senegal, I did it from my laptop, in my own home.  We met through Kiva.   With $25, a paypal account, and a desire to do some good Kiva connected me to this man in Senegal and in doing so revealed the power of small.
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Farmers in the Northern Plains often worry about what the weather could do to their crops Â but they seldom think about what their crops could do to the weather.
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On any other day but this one, the village of Ahmad al-Hamadi, on the green banks of the Euphrates, would be an idyllic place. In the rich, agricultural gardens
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Travel: Gwladys Fouche joins a mahout training course at an elephant camp in the heart of Laos. But it soon becomes apparent that two days won't be enough.
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When 2007 arrived and the  winter rains had still not fallen, Morocco&#39;s religious leaders  led anxious prayers to avert a rural catastrophe, quoting from  the Koran:
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The president of Spain's Canary Islands made a desperate appeal Tuesday for more help from European leaders to halt a record-breaking wave of poor Africans seeking to reach his archipelago to gain a toehold in Europe.
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A West African  delegation has talks with Guinea's president on ways of resolving the political crisis.