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Contributors | Matthew O. Berger

Matthew O. Berger has covered environment, science and global development from Washington for Inter Press Service and InsideClimateNews.com.

Feeding the World -- After Climate Change

By Matthew O. Berger | Dec 29, 2011

In the birthplace of the potato, things are heating up. Over the past decade, the Quechua farmers working at the El Parque de la Papa, outside Cusco, Peru, started noticing that the potato varieties they used to grow at lower altitudes can now only be cultivated much higher up the mountainside.

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As Invasive Pests Gain New Footholds, Little-Known Agencies Scramble to Defend the World’s Forests

By Matthew O. Berger | Nov 29, 2011

In 1986, a tiny but hungry new arrival took up residence in Malawi’s conifer trees. The cypress aphid may not have been native to the southern African forests, but once it came, it planned to stay.

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