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High Five: NIFA-Funded Research Improves Agriculture
This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. The National Institute of...
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Looking Forward: 10 of the Top Issues of 2016
With 2016 just around the corner, we’ve rounded up a bevy of what we think will be some of the top food and agriculture issues of 2016. From action on antibiotic overuse, to local aquaculture, to...
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Meet the Lawyer Challenging the Food-Delivery Industry
Uber's employment practices have been making headlines lately, and the pending lawsuit against the company in the state of California could have wide-ranging implications for the entire on-demand...
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Why 2016 Could Be a Difficult Year for Sommeliers
Despite reports of strong sales in 2015, sommeliers are being hit by big challenges that could signal the end to the kind of influence that they wield in the market today. In the way that once powerful...
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In Defense Of Food Stamps: Why The White House Sings SNAP's Praises
A supermarket displays stickers indicating it accepts food stamps in West New York, N.J., in January 2015. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption Early this month, House Speaker Paul Ryan asked a crowd in...
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The Robin Hood of Leftovers
Making use of leftovers this time of year can be hard. Now imagine that instead of finishing your family’s extra mashed potatoes and gravy, you’re in charge of the extra food produced by a school or...
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The 7 biggest food stories of 2015
The food politics beat was as tumultuous and fascinating as ever in 2015. Here, in no particular order, is my list of the year's biggest stories. Let me know what I missed in the comments section. 1)...
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An indoor agriculture startup is bringing 'local farming' to every corner of...
In early October, a little more than a hundred people gathered in an unlikely event space in New York City to talk about farming. They discussed water usage and efficient transportation, the price of...
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The problem with science journalism: we’ve forgotten that reality matters most
As a science journalist, a lot of your time is spent reporting on new studies, natural phenomena and how research may affect our lives. But there is another key piece to science, and that is the people...
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Serving Up Food Industry's Darkest Secrets
Joanna Blythman is the leading investigative food journalist on the British food chain who has written extensively on such subjects as salmon farming, supermarkets, intensive pineapple production, bird...
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Speaking Fees Meet Politics for Clintons
At Hillary Clinton’s confirmation hearing for secretary of state, she promised she would take “extraordinary steps…to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.” Later, more than two dozen...
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This Law Could Radically Cut Food Waste
Imagine a world where farmers were rewarded for donating “ugly” produce to food banks and school lunch programs; grocery stores weren’t beholden to arbitrary “sell by” dates on their packaging; and...
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Mobile farmers market launches trial run in St. Louis food deserts
An eye-catching retrofitted bus rolled onto an empty lot in St. Louis’ near north side Saturday to offer up fresh produce and the ingredients for sweet potato chili. The visit launched the official...
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Farms in the projects? Yes—and that's just the beginning
You wouldn’t expect to find a vegetable farm at a public housing development in New York City. But a one-acre farm at Red Hook Houses—the first-ever large farm on New York City Housing Authority...
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The 15 Most Beautiful Restaurants of 2015
As the year comes to a close, Eater takes a look back at the most stunning restaurant designs of 2015. And while stark whites and slates have ruled minimalist restaurant design (and Instagram), this...
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It's Official: Eating Food Watered with (Treated) Grey Water Is Fine
In dry or arid areas, from Israel to California, water use can be tightly regulated, especially for gardens. But there's another source of water that's going unused, and a new study suggests we should...
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Editor's desk
FERN has always dug deeply to explore the food system, uncovering injustice and revealing the possibilities for change. This past year, we took that mission overseas, reflecting the globalized nature...
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Raisins and Scotch in Chef Mourad Lahlou’s Innovative Moroccan Cooking
This feature was produced in collaboration between Vox Creative and Pernod Ricard USA. Eater editorial staff was not involved in the creation or production of this content. The Glenlivet 18 Year Old...
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U.S. Bread Basket Shifts Thanks to Climate Change
Farming across the Midwest will be challenged by a shifting climate and may struggle to keep up crop production In September 2014, a group of leading plant and agricultural researchers sat down at...
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15 Ways to Cook Healthy-ish In 2016
Chefs like to complicate things: recipes, techniques, their lives. Jeremy Fox isn’t one of those chefs. At least not anymore. Although he was once known for his conceptual dishes at Napa’s...
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