Why a scythe is a better guardian of humanity’s future than AI.
In the midst of Silicon Valley's hype about “unmanned farms,” Mr. and Mrs. Le in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are using an alloy scythe to harvest double-cropped rice during the annual…
Gender revolution on the scythe: the overlooked $7 billion market for women in agriculture
Under the blazing sun of Rajasthan, India, Raj, 58, ties a rusty sickle to her swollen wrist joint with a strip of cloth - it's her 32nd rainy season harvesting…
Modern innovations in the traditional scythe: contributing to the future of sustainable agriculture
With the proliferation of mechanized harvesting equipment, you might not think it - more than half a billion smallholder farmers around the world still rely on the primitive sickle for…
Survival wisdom in the age of extreme weather: why farmers around the world are re-embracing the sickle
When floods in Pakistan destroyed $230 million worth of farm machinery and California's century-long drought crippled smart irrigation systems, more and more farmers began to revisit the sickle in the…