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A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s crops. Underground, the region’s lifeblood — water — is
November 18, 2020 by Matthew R. Sanderson
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On a farm in O’Neill, Nebraska, Mike Zakrzewski wakes up every morning to tend his cattle and grow corn and soybeans on the farm he’s known since childhood.
October 29, 2020 by Molly Bergen
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This story originally appeared in Truthout and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic
October 13, 2020 by Leanna First-Arai
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This article originally was published on World Resources Institute.
American agriculture is among the most productive in the world. It employs 2.6 million
September 16, 2020 by Richard Waite
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The photo above is of Marsden Farm in Iowa. That strip on the far left is corn. It’s bordered by soybean, followed by a second row of corn. Then it’s alfalfa
September 11, 2020 by Jim Giles
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Climate change is the undercurrent that drives and shapes our lives in countless ways. Journalist Judith D. Schwartz sees the term as shorthand. "It’s almost
September 11, 2020 by Breanna Draxler
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The Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) program, a rigorous sustainability certification for foods, fibers and personal care products, is publicly available
August 27, 2020 by Jared Kaufman
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Avrom Farm sits in the hills above Green Lake in central Wisconsin. With 5,000 chickens, 200 pigs and six acres of vegetables, it’s a minnow in an industry
August 21, 2020 by Jim Giles
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Farmers play an essential role in our food system. Both the beginning farmers of today and the future generation of farmers are vital to ensuring this role is
August 11, 2020 by Paloma Sisneros-Lobato
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Parts of our food systems are so bewilderingly complex that attempts to answer even basic questions can result in hours of frustrated searching. If you can
June 19, 2020 by Jim Giles
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There’s an old saying that you get what you pay for when it comes to things that separate you from the ground, such as shoes, tires and beds. The same is true
April 23, 2020 by Owen Poindexter
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Sixteen men tending budding grapes on a farm in the Sacramento Delta hit the fields by sunrise, arriving in packed cars and vans.
As Americans shelter in
April 23, 2020 by Evelyn Nieves
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As the coronavirus crisis has laid bare, the United States urgently needs a strategic plan for farmland. The very lands we need to ensure community food
April 22, 2020 by Liz Carlisle
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The events of the past month have given many of us a newfound appreciation for our global food system. For many, the sight of depleted grocery store shelves
April 16, 2020 by Mike Hower
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This article was originally published on Ensia.Around the world, nearly 5 billion acres of land — an area larger than Russia — are degraded. Degradation can
April 9, 2020 by Dancan Gromko
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This article was originally was published in Yale Environment 360.In Chester County, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Beaver Run carves
April 2, 2020 by Janet Marinelli
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Excerpted from "FOOD FIX" © 2020 by Mark Hyman MD. Used with permission of Little, Brown and
February 22, 2020 by Mark Hyman
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From coffee to clothing, U.S. retail sales of items certified by nonprofit Fair Trade USA topped $6 billion in 2016 with well-known brands such as Starbucks,
January 29, 2020 by Heather Clancy
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This is an excerpt from "Rainforest: Dispatches From Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines" by Tony Juniper. Copyright 2019 by Tony Juniper. Reproduced here with
January 25, 2020 by Tony Juniper
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The United Nations estimates (PDF) that nearly 10 billion people will live in cities by 2050. According to a recent publication by the Barilla Center for Food
January 2, 2020 by Andrea Oyuela
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The recent Sustainable Agriculture Summit last month in Indianapolis was billed as a forum to collectively create a roadmap for U.S. agriculture to meet the
December 3, 2019 by John Davies
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Americans will eat about 210 million turkeys this year, amounting to over 16 pounds per person. Much of that will be eaten Thanksgiving Day.Over time, our
November 28, 2019 by Jayson Lusk
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With increasing global concerns on the environmental impact of conventional animal meat production and the health implications associated with meat consumption
November 27, 2019 by Gareth Armanious
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On fields across the world, phones, tablets, drones and other technologies are changing how food is grown. Through these devices, artificial intelligence (AI
November 25, 2019 by Katherine Walla
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Under the canopied fronds of oil palm trees, 20 farmers — young and old, men and women — listen attentively as Javier Cabrera Álvarez, a sustainable
October 22, 2019 by Meg Wilcox