A year and a half after Hurricane María struck the island, grants from World Central Kitchen are helping dozens of small farmers start fresh. Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats ...

News agencies report that up to 80% of Puerto Rico's crops were destroyed by Hurricane Maria. Less than a fifth of Puerto Rico's 13,000 farms participated in federal crop insurance programs in 2012, ...

Crop damage from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture/flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 This segment is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from ...

For the past four years, Eduardo Burgos and Franco Marcano have been waking up early to a strong cup of Puerto Rican coffee and heading to their farm in Las Piedras, near the center of the island.

ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico — Nearly two years after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, Iris Jeannette still cries when she sees how much of her coffee farm was destroyed. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

City Winery's Michael Dorf and a dozen sound and production pros from each of the country’s half-dozen locations are shin-deep in muck on a mountainside clearing surrounded by snapped and broken trees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view from a hilltop near Salinas, Puerto Rico, shows the vast area now covered in solar panels for one of the island's largest ...

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One year ago, Hurricane Maria swept over Puerto Rico, bringing 150 mph winds. Nearly 3,000 people died, homes and buildings were ruined and farms were destroyed all over the U.S. territory. According ...

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On the morning of September 21, 2017, Carlos Lago and Justina Díaz Bisbal emerged from their household into a post-apocalyptic world. Their once-lush five-acre fruit farm in southern Puerto Rico was ...

Today, nearly three months after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico’s shores, locals are still processing its catastrophic effects. In looking at the food and agricultural industry, a six-letter word ...