Chihuahua ends crop burning after solutions-focused coverage

A Global Press Journal story about how a group of farmers helped save the lives of cattle and reduced air pollution in the process led their city to follow their lead. The story, published in April 2021, explained how farmers in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, figured out that leftover stalks and leaves from their corn crops could feed cattle when drought killed the grass they usually consumed. Selling those leftovers rather than burning them (as farmers in that area usually do), also led to a decrease in air pollution. By November, the head of the city of Cuauhtémoc’s ecology department announced that the city would stop burning leftover corn stalks and leaves, too, crediting the story as one impetus for the policy change.