Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture
Farms will adapt or move. So will farmworkers
When billions of black bugs invaded Buenos Aires in March, locals were mystified. Social media buzzed with queries. They turned out to be thrips, leaf-munching insects escaping from the drought-denuded Argentine countryside for better-watered urban gardens. They pose no threat to people. But the extreme weather that prompted their exodus does.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “When the tortillas run out”
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