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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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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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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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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Staying healthy just keeps getting more important “ ask anyone staring down a waiting line in a hospital emergency ward over the holidays.Illnesses that require hospitalization don’t always stem from poor nutrition, of course…. Image: Southeast AgNET
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Owen Roberts is an agricultural journalist and communications instructor based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a trustee on the Global Foundation for Agricultural Journalism and an associate editor (communications) for the Journal of Agromedicine. Previously, Owen was president of the International Forum for Agricultural Journalists, an agricultural communications faculty member at the University of Illinois, and research communications director at the University of Guelph. His programs and research papers have been recognized through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence and the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation.