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Coverage of North Carolina hog industry

by Barry Yeoman on January 27, 2022

Chronological order, oldest to newest. The Vanishing Act (Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019) After years of burying complaints about hog-farm pollution, North Carolina officials began posting them online. What changed? (Also published in The Guardian and McClatchy North Carolina papers.) Raising a Stink (Food & Environment Reporting Network, December 2019) Rural North Carolinians sued the world’s largest hog producer over […]

Judge declares much of N.C. ag-gag law unconstitutional

by Barry Yeoman on June 14, 2020

Click here for “Judge declares much of N.C. ag-gag law unconstitutional,” Food & Environment Reporting Network, June 2020.

Feeding refugees on the U.S.-Mexico border

by Barry Yeoman on May 20, 2020

Click here for “Feeding refugees on the U.S.-Mexico border,” Food & Environment Reporting Network and Texas Observer, May 2020.

As Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Ancestral Village, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put

by Barry Yeoman on April 13, 2020

Click here for “As Sea Level Rise Threatens Their Ancestral Village, a Louisiana Tribe Fights to Stay Put,” onEarth, April 2020.

On the Front Lines at a North Carolina Food Bank

by Barry Yeoman on April 7, 2020

Click here for “On the Front Lines at a North Carolina Food Bank,” Food & Environment Reporting Network, April 2020.

In North Carolina, pandemic prompts farmer cooperation

by Barry Yeoman on March 20, 2020

Please click here to be directed to “In North Carolina, pandemic prompts farmer cooperation,” Food and Environment Reporting Network, March 2020.

The Vanishing Act

by Barry Yeoman on August 27, 2019

Please click here to be directed to “For years, complaints about North Carolina’s hog pollution vanished in state bureaucracy,” Food & Environment Reporting Network, August 2019. You will be taken to FERN’s web site.

Is the World Bank Group Above the Law?

by Barry Yeoman on October 22, 2018

A fishing community in India challenges the bank’s private-lending arm in the U.S. Supreme Court. Originally published in The Nation. THE U.S.SUPREME COURT SITS ABOUT 8,000 miles from Tragadi Bandar, the patch of India’s west coast where Budha Ismail Jam has spent most of the past two decades fishing for a living. Jam’s seasonal home, […]

The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods

by Barry Yeoman on August 30, 2018

Anthropologists and other scholars are delving into the plight of urban communities where people struggle to meet their nutritional needs. In the process, these researchers are discovering the power, and limits, of self-reliance. Originally published in Sapiens and reprinted in Civil Eats. EVEN BEFORE ASHANTÉ REESE AND I REACH THE FRONT GATE, retired schoolteacher Alice […]

The Cookhouse Shepherd

by Barry Yeoman on July 1, 2018

Click here for “The Cookhouse Shepherd,” Carolina Alumni Review, July 2018. Opens as a PDF.

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