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February 2
Livelihoods from fishing, rice farming, travel, tourism, and water provision all depend on wetlands. And wetlands are vital to us in many other ways. They host a huge variety of life, protect our...
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Last-Ditch Resistance: What Is The Role Of Food?
The sudden recognition of last-ditch antibiotic resistance moving across the globe—via mcr-1, a newly identified gene that protects bacteria against the action of the last-resort antibiotic...
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Soil Should Be the Foundation of Food, Water, and Energy Policy
Posted February 1, 2016 "All roads lead back to soil," said Chef Dan Barber, keynote speaker at the Food-Water-Energy Nexus Conference (FEW) I attended last week. Soil is foundational, literally and...
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Changing the way we eat
Marion Nestle’s office on Lafayette Street in Manhattan is a homey sanctuary, away from the busy streets. A shelf in the window holds as many cacti as it holds awards, the potted succulents stretching...
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If There Are No New Farmers, Who Will Grow Our Food?
Against a backdrop of lush green mountains and swaying papaya trees, La‘amea Lunn readies his crop of carrots, kale, and eggplants for the weekly farmers market. He carefully tends his one-third acre...
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The Endangered Female Farmer
Posted February 1, 2016 In 2013, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report on female farmers that contained what appeared to be some very good news: the share of farms...
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Organic Cannabis? One Colorado Hemp Farm Has Earned The USDA’s Blessing
Colorado is now home to some of the nation’s first certified organic cannabis, which comes with a blessing from federal regulators. CBDRx, a Longmont, Colorado cannabis farm, has secured a...
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Big Campaign Cash for Clinton from Monsanto Lobbyist
A Monsanto Co. lobbyist, who is seen as Hillary Clinton’s “main man” in Iowa, was among the top financial bundlers of contributions to benefit Hillary Clinton’s run for the White House in the most...
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Farm Subsidies Persist And Grow, Despite Talk Of Reform
Farm subsidies don't lack for critics. Free-market conservatives and welfare state-defending liberals alike have called for deep cuts in these payments to farmers. After all, farmers, as a group, are...
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Is the Zika outbreak connected to climate change?
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the Zika virus spreads throughout Latin America, alarm bells are blaring and questions...
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Move over, civet cats: This coffee company tries a fresh approach with bacteria
So much deliciousness depends on microbes. Beer, wine, and bread, of course, require yeast, but that’s just the beginning: The best pickles, chocolate, sausage, cheese, and coffee all get their flavor...
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Study: Monsanto's glyphosate now most heavily used weed-killer in history
Washington, D.C. - Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as "Roundup," is now the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S....
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Supplier to Yum, McDonald's in China calls food safety convictions 'injustices'
Before the trial of two of its Shanghai facilities and 10 employees, officials with OSI Group expressed “confidence in China’s legal system,” and said they believed the local court would “come to a...
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New Theatre Restaurant norovirus outbreak infects more than 600
An outbreak of norovirus infections that has sickened more than 600 who ate at a dinner theater in Overland Park, Kan., is the focus of much investigation and a $40,000 cleanup. The Kansas Department...
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Monsanto's glyphosate now most heavily used weed-killer in history, study says
Monsanto's signature herbicide glyphosate, first marketed as "Roundup," is now the most widely and heavily applied weed-killer in the history of chemical agriculture in both the U.S. and globally,...
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California’s Grand Plan to Fight Climate Change on the Farm
While El Niño rains have brought some relief to drought-stricken California, Governor Jerry Brown appears to be concerned with the impact extreme weather could continue to have on agriculture in the...
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Bernie Sanders Just Changed the Democratic Party
After a remarkable night in Iowa, one that served as a rebuke to Donald Trump and to the opinion pollsters, the Democratic Party was faced with the prospect of being forced to confront a youthful and...
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Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally
Accurate pesticide use data are essential when studying the environmental and public health impacts of pesticide use. Since the mid-1990s, significant changes have occurred in when and how glyphosate...
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Why a top food safety expert doesn’t eat oysters and always orders meat...
In the aftermath of an E. coli outbreak at Chipotle, which sickened dozens of people across the United States last fall, and led to an overhaul of the company's food safety practices, Americans reacted...
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