Regreening Africa
Mark Hertsgaard : Africa
In the dry Sahel, farmers are already adapting to climate change.
2009
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Wendell Berry's Wisdom
Michael Pollan : Food & Nutrition
Today's conversation about food was started by dot-connecting writers like Berry in the 1970s.
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The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Rebecca Solnit : U.S. Economy
Nation Forum: The underlying vision isn't capitalist or socialist but something humane, local and accountable.
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We Need a Department of Homegrown Security
Chip Ward : Food & Nutrition
Drop the scary Bush lingo and start creating resilient communities than can effectively recover from disaster in this age of financial and climate chaos.
2008
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Slow Food for Thought
Eric Schlosser : Food & Nutrition
Affluent foodies embrace sustainable agriculture, oblivious that ordinary people--especially the poor--don't have a seat at the table.
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Got Milk? Get Investigated
David E. Gumpert : Civil Rights & Liberties
State and federal authorities are relying on undercover agents to entrap dairy farmers.
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Manufacturing a Food Crisis
How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.
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Milk Wars
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
As struggling dairy farmers seek profits by responding to rising consumer demand for raw milk, regulators are taking a hard line.
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Banana Kings
The history of banana cultivation is rife with labor and environmental abuse, corporate skulduggery and genetic experiments gone awry.
2007
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USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
David E. Gumpert & William Pentland : Food & Nutrition
A plan to implant farm animals with electronic tracking tags gives corporate agriculture a monopoly on the future of food, and it has sparked political backlash in rural America.
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Farmworkers and Students Take On Burger King
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Wages & Hours
The fast-food giant's insistence on paying poverty wages to tomato pickers could backfire, as student activists' campaign for fair food cuts into their business.
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Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
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Confronting the Global Timber Barons
From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might help save the forests.
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Old McDonald Had a Farm...and He Got Arrested?
David E. Gumpert : Food & Nutrition
As consumers increasingly seek out farmers who raise organic and unpasteurized food, suddenly energized regulators claim they want to "protect" us from pathogens and other dangers. What gives?
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Farm Aid Raises a Vision
What began as an attempt to help financially strapped farmers in the Reagan years has grown into a visionary political and social movement rooted in the agrarian values of the American Revolution.
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The Hundred-Mile Diet
Christopher Ketcham : Global Warming & Climate Change
A new way to fight global warming and corporate agriculture: Eat only locally grown food, and call yourself a localvore.
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Farm Bill Showdown
As he shapes the Senate farm bill, Tom Harkin should heed progressives and forge legislation that ends subsidies and gives a fair shake to family farmers.
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