How To Support Minority Organic Farmers
When addressing the issue of food security and quality, we have to find ways to support minority-owned, organic farms.
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Why Healthy Soil Means A Healthier Planet
In the face of climate change, farmers and scientists are working to better understand how soil supports a healthy planet.
Which Is Worse For The Environment: Factory Farms Or Small-Scale Farms?
Scientists, farmers & economists are arguing about the right way to grow food, especially as the world warms & our population swells.
Improving Agriculture: 7 Techniques To Make Farming Less Destructive
Agriculture is one of the most important human activities, and also one of the most destructive to the planet. But it doesn’t have to be that way…
Genetically Modified Organisms: Safe To Eat, Safe For The Environment?
The jury is still out regarding whether genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can hurt people or the environment.
A Hot Read: The New American Farmer
Exploring Latino/a farmers’ transition from workers to owners
Food for Stuff: 21st Century Land Use
We must aggressively tax agricultural emissions, deforestation, and land degradation. Production of harmful non-food products from food should be too expensive to be worthwhile.
Tastes Like Climate Change: The Declining Nutritional Value of Food
Most agree: we eat to nourish our bodies to keep them functioning. Today, unsustainable agriculture & climate change are threatening that very purpose.
Adding Seaweed To Cattle Feed Could Reduce Methane Emissions By 80%
By adding a little seaweed to cattle feed, we could reduce methane emissions — a major contributor to global warming — by as much as 80% worldwide.
Guide to Organic Pesticides
Leave it to Mother Nature to protect our plants so you don’t have to use dangerous chemicals on your food supply and risk the health of your family.