Let’s start strumming the tune people need
In a recent interview with the culinary publication Eater, American cultural icon Dolly Parton likened her love of traditional cooking to country music. Photo credit: Getty Images
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Author: Owen Roberts
Seeking workers to build machines that replace workers
I have a talented friend in Silicon Valley who toiled for years as a project manager at Netflix. A few months ago though, her role with the company ended, like tens of thousands of others in the hi-tech sector.
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This normally reliable food producer is struggling to get by
As much as excessive corporate profits bug me, I appreciate efforts that grocery stores make to provide us with great food that we would not get at certain times of the year without a well-developed import-export network. Photo credit: freshplaza.com
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Here’s a second chance for small- and medium farms
People who value the image of old-time agriculture and traditional farm values will be pleased to know small- and medium-sized farms could be poised to make a comeback, at least in the US, with government help. Photo credit: BlakeBorchardtPhotography
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Technology gets another look as Africa feeds growing population
The “Help Feed Africa Mantra”, that with good intentions, once dominated aid and development to the continent, shifted decades ago to “Help Africa Feed Africa.” Photo: ITTA, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.