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Jarrett Wrisley |
Bennett Haynes, 24, has worked for AAN for over a year in this corner of Northeastern Thailand.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley |
A pot of sticky rice, steaming over a wood fire.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley |
Another practice that the AAN and many other agricultural organizations are trying to do away with in Thailand is the burning of rice straw in the dry season. I passed this field, and this burning palm, on the way to Nong Yang.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley
A typical farmhouse on the outskirts of Nong Yang, in Yasothorn Province, Thailand.
Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley |
This farmer moved back home from Bangkok to farm dragon fruit—the fruit-producing cactus he's holding—organically. His family also teaches other farmers how to wean themselves off of pesticides and herbicides.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley |
Du Lang is a devout Buddhist and a professorial organic farmer and seed researcher. He grows about 170 varieties of rice.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley |
A germinated kernel of rice.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley |
Baby frogs that will later be released into the paddies to be raised as food and control insects. Catfish also thrive in paddies, in the absence of chemicals.
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Jarrett Wrisley profiles the rice farmers who are pushing for a return to tradition in
Thailand's Other Protests: Pro-Sustainable Food.
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Jarrett Wrisley
Du Lang's first crop this year.
