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Why the government is going sweet on a sugar tax
Next month, the government in England is expected to publish its long-awaited child obesity strategy. The plan has been in the pipeline for some time - it was originally going to be published last...
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Cuba's organic honey exports create buzz as bees die off elsewhere
By Chris Arsenault SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BANOS, Cuba, Feb 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - L ong known for its cigars and rum, Cuba has added organic honey to its list of key agricultural exports,...
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How schools in Brazil are teaching kids to eat their vegetables
On a hilly slope in São Paulo City, a group of sixth graders is busy at work. They’re armed with seeds, soil and a range of gardening tools. Upside-down soda bottles, filled with water, outline a...
View ArticleGarden DIY: Growing Food in the Great Indoors
Welcome to Garden DIY! We're excited to share tips and projects to help you get the most out of home gardening all year long. With a focus on sustainable practices, this series offers ideas for people...
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IFAD social reporting blog: Top five reasons why we love small farmers
Written by Sally Martinelli, Simona Siad and Katie Taft As different cultures celebrate Valentine's Day, IFAD reminds the world of the importance of investing in small farmers. At IFAD, we love...
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The crippling thing about growing up poor that stays with you forever
Poverty has a way of rearing its ugly head, slipping into the cracks in people's lives when they're young and then re-emerging later in life. Sometimes it happens in ways that are easily...
View ArticleInternational Foodsource, LLC Issues a Voluntary Recall of Various Raw...
Customer Service973-361-7044 View Product Photos International Foodsource, LLC Issues a Voluntary Recall of Various Raw Pistachios Products due to Possible Salmonella Risk. Salmonella is an organism...
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BREAKING: Popular Grocer Trader Joe’s Goes Cage-Free
Following discussions with Mercy For Animals and other groups, Trader Joe’s, one of the nation's most popular grocery chains, announced its commitment to improving animal welfare in its U.S. supply...
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Garden of Life expands recall of Raw Meal products linked to Salmonella outbreak
Company officials at Garden of Life LLC say they have identified the source of Salmonella Virchow contamination in their Raw Meal branded organic shake and meal powders and they expanded their product...
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International Foodsource recalls pistachios after Salmonella test
International Foodsource LLC is recalling pistachios after random tests by the Food and Drug Administration showed Salmonella in a package of Valued Naturals brand raw pistachio kernels that was...
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Fritters recalled over "extraneous plastic materials"
McCain Foods USA, Inc., a Lisle, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 25,215 pounds of bacon fritters that may be contaminated with extraneous plastic materials, the U.S. Department of...
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Patient count increases in E. coli outbreak linked to organic raw milk;...
State officials added two more people to the list of patients in an E. coli outbreak in California linked to raw milk from Organic Pastures Dairy Co., but the dairy operator says the state’s data is...
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America is is full of “ticking toxic time Bombs” like Flint
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. "I know if I was a parent up there, I would be beside myself if my kids’ health could be at risk," said President Obama on a recent trip to...
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Florida Says Its Fruits, Vegetables Are Safe From Invasive Fruit Fly
Florida's avocados, papayas, tomatoes, mangoes, peaches, passionfruit and peppers are safe — along with more than 400 other fruits and vegetables. They'd all been threatened by the Oriental fruit fly,...
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Senior Associate Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said. Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort...
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Love the Hands that Feed You
This Valentine’s Day, before planning your romantic dinner or buying roses and chocolate, think about how your choices will affect the hands that feed you. This Valentine’s Day, before planning your...
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The Supreme Court throws a wrench in Obama’s climate plans
This story was originally published by The New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Supreme Court has turned up the heat on President Barack Obama’s landmark...
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Brazil's school lunch program is putting food on the table for the country's...
Two women walk between rows of pumpkin plants in the outskirts of Promissão, a small agricultural town about 300 miles north of São Paulo. One of them, Donna Marinova, who is in her 50s, owns this...
View ArticleReal Food Right Now and How to Cook It: Chocolate
We'll start this on a bittersweet note. A few years ago, in a post about chocolate, our Special Advisor on Food and Agriculture, Chris Hunt, wrote that Valentine's Day (the holiday responsible for a...
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Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions
That might sound like the ravings of an addict, but look at the headlines in every morning’s newspaper and the obsessions of every evening’s cable news broadcast. Just about anything you encounter in...
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