Jill Richardson, Commonweal Institute. November 25, 2009. Obama's statements about food and agriculture trend moderate to progressive, but his nominations for top positions in his administration tell a different story.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. November 21, 2009. Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.
Robyn O'Brien, AlterNet. November 19, 2009. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers and allergies. We need a new food system.
Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 6, 2009. Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it.
Richard Wiswall, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 22, 2009. Contrary to what most people believe, a good living can be made on an organic farm, and what's required is farming smarter, not harder.
Lester R. Brown, Climate Progress. October 14, 2009. The world renown environmentalist writes about his new book and lays out the devastating impacts unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases will have on food and water.
Joya Parsons, Every Kitchen Table. October 7, 2009. Corporations have been given the power to own seeds. And they are eliminating competing varieties and crowning their own patented seeds as the only choice in the marketplace.
Timothy LaSalle, AlterNet. September 29, 2009. There's no honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture in playing a leading role in actually feeding people.
Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal. September 15, 2009. Not only do bumblebees pollinate about 15 percent of our food crops (valued at $3 billion), they also occupy a critical role as native pollinators.
Lester R. Brown, TreeHugger. August 28, 2009. How China ended its dependence on food aid, almost overnight, and become the world's third largest food aid donor.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 11, 2009. In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia.
Jill Richardson, AlterNet. August 10, 2009. There's good reason to fear that Obama's new global food security effort may do more harm than good for the world's hungry.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. July 10, 2009. Certainly farms and farmers are suffering, so are fish and ecosystems. But so is the truth. Here are three oft-repeated falsehoods.
Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. June 20, 2009. As California and Australia are finding out, what makes economic sense to farmers may be becoming an environmental problem.
Lisa M. Hamilton, Counterpoint Press. June 8, 2009. A 10th-generation rancher in New Mexico shows how to restore the environment, agriculture and ranching communities.
Gene Logsdon, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 27, 2009. OK, you've mastered tomatoes and peppers -- but how about learning how to grow grains in your own yard?
Lisa M. Hamilton, Prairie Writers Circle. May 13, 2009. Between 2002 and 2007, the United States lost 43,603 real farms -- we can't let agribusiness control our food supply.
Will Allen, Chelsea Green Publishing. May 11, 2009. Industrial ag supplies most of our food, yet its lack of regulation may be more of a threat than Wall Street's.
Gwen Schantz, AlterNet. March 20, 2009. From a White House garden to rule changes at factory farms, the era of industrial ag calling the shots is changing.
