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New farm to deliver fresh, organic produce - Barbados Today

With more frequent and stronger storms predicted which experts say could significantly disrupt food supply chains, Barbados has received a timely boost to its agriculture food crop production. Island Growers Caribbean has set up shop in Bridgetown, becoming the first 100 per cent climate-smart and category five hurricane resistant greenhouse system in the region. It […]

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Knoxville College (1875- )

Knoxville College was founded in 1875 as a missionary effort of the United Presbyterian Church of North America in order to promote religious, moral, and educational leadership among freed men and women. Located north of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, in the city’s Mechanicsville community, the

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Caricom must work to strengthen food and nutrition security – LaRocque

This statement was part of the remarks made yesterday by the Secretary-General of CARICOM, Irwin LaRocque at a virtual meeting of CARICOM Ministers of Agriculture, Financial Institutions, Donor Organizations and Donor Countries Support for CARICOM Agri-Food and Food Security Response to the

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Early Christianity in North Africa

Given the slow progress of Romanization of North Africa, it is perhaps surprising how quickly Christianity spread across the top of the continent. From the fall of Carthage in 146 BCE to the rule of Emperor Augustus (from 27 BCE), Africa (or, more strictly speaking, Africa Vetus, Old Africa), as

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Rwanda: Govt to Insure More Crops As Farmers Bear Negative Impacts of Floods

Following disasters that continue to destroy farmers' crops and kill domestic animals, the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) has said that it is going to subsidize insurance cost for more crops and livestock so as to cushion farmers against

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George Washington Carver

Born in Missouri around 1864 during the years of Civil War (the exact date and year in which he was born not being known), George Washington Carver was a son of an enslaved couple, Mary and Giles. Only a week after his birth, invaders from Arkansas, a neighboring state, kidnapped him along with his

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