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1/22/21: "Planting crops — and carbon, too
President Biden says farmers can adopt agricultural methods that help fight climate change. Maryland farmer Trey Hill has been trying." WaPo
1/23/21: "6% of Earth’s protected land is used to grow crops, study finds"
11/27/20: "Just 1% of Farms Control 70% of Global Farmland: Study Finds 'Shocking State of Land Inequality'"
Consumer Notice.org: Toxic Pesticides
11/15/20: The foods that do the most damage to our climate
11/5/20: Cutting Greenhouse Gases From Food Production Is Urgent, Scientists Say NYT
9/1/20: "Fake Meat Alone Won’t Save the World"
8/23/20: "Synthetic Fertilizers Are Heating the Planet. But There's an Alternative"
8/11/20: A Prophet Of Soil Gets His Moment Of Fame
8/3/20: "How carbon-smart farming can feed us and fight climate change at the same time"
7/31/20: "There's a heatwave at the Arctic ‘doomsday vault’"
7/16/20: "World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses"
7/17/20: "The pandemic could actually strengthen the U.S. food system"
7/16/20: "World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses"
7/10/20: "Farmers and Animal Rights Activists Are Coming Together to Fight Big Factory Farms"
6/15/20: The federal government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food system—we need a new one
5/22/20: "The Russian Scientists that starved to death in a room full of food"
COVID-19 Sparks a Rebirth of the Local Farm Movement
May 8, 2020: "BOOK REVIEW: Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America"
Now is the time to sign up for local community-supported agriculture. Here's why
NYT: Dumped Milk, smashed eggs, plowed vegetables: food waste and the pandemic 4/12/20
Behind Big Pesticide’s Playbook (Intercept, 1/18/20, long investigative piece on agrochemicals)
Climate Change Threatens the World Food Supply, UN Warns 8/8/19
We already grow enough crops to feed an extra 10 billion people
There Are 2000 untested chemicals in food, and it's legal!
The farms of America — losing more than we realise 10/11/19
Biosolids and agriculture 10/5/19
We Need Biodiversity to solve the climate crisis
Lab grown food will replace agriculture (Monbiot)
A Shadowy Industry Group Shapes Food Policy Around the World NYT 9/16/19
9/14/19 Biochar as an Alternative to slash and burn farming
The Secret to Democrats Winning the Midwest- Fight Big Agriculture
Our Food Is Killing Too Many of Us NYT 8/26/19
Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny- the Corporate Capture of Agriculture 8/21/19
Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem 8/21/19
Agroecology as Innovation 8/7/19
WRI Report on Feeding the World 8/9/19
WRI Report on Feeding the World 7/19 (link)
The IPCC August 8 Report on Land Use and Climate Change 8/8/19
Monbiot (Guardian) on why IPCC Report is flawed
America's Agriculture Is 48 Times More Toxic Than 25 Years Ago 8/8/19
The systems approach to agriculture that the UN has adopted to feed a future of 9 billion
US beekeepers lost 40 percent of honeybees last year
UN Experts Denounce 'Myth' Pesticides, 7/3/17
The Corn that grows Itself
Food, Climate Change, Syria & National Security 6/27/19
Electric food of the future (10/18 Guardian)
NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air 8/4/19
Bernie Sanders plans to take on Big Ag and end agribusiness
10/14/20: Restoring Farmland Could Drastically Slow Extinctions, Fight Climate Change
9/30/20: " Many Cities in the US Could Grow All Their Own Food"
9/14/19: "Biochar as an Alternative to slash and burn farming"
(Permaculture)
9/8/20: "As Mexican Pork Industry Expands, Environmental Concerns Follow (disponible en español)"
8/25/20: "Vintage Photos: World War II ‘Victory Gardens’"
6/23/20: How Insects Could Completely Change the Way We Approach Protein
6/12/20: These Small Dairy Farms Are a Model for a Resilient Food System
Aquaponics Presents A New Way To Grow Sustainable Fish And Veggies
Replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods could prevent 1.6 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions
How Baltimore Is Experimenting Its Way Out of the Food Desert
Step Aside Agribusiness: It's time for real solutions to climate change
How a closed door meeting shows farmers are waking up to climate change. 12/9/19
Rome Summit Takes Bold Step Toward Ecological Agriculture
Our future is agroecology
Philippine Peasants Were Promised Land. Staking a Claim Can Be Deadly
How Beef Changed America
Why Agritech Is Israels next big import
Brazil’s Pesticide Industry Is Creating Massive PFOS Contamination
Behind much of the world chocolate is slave labor
Technology to stop coffee from going extinct
California to ban pesticide it says hurts babies
EPA Ignored its own study on chlorpyrifos (PBS Newshour video)
The Coming Worm Apocalypse Should Terrify You
Which Vision Of Farming Is Better For The Planet?
Scientists try to save the banana
Devastating banana disease may have reached Latin America
Following the Steps of Vavilov, botanist who died under Stalin
Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning
Hungry for change in our food system
Monbiot on the peril of industrial agriculture and animal protein
NYT Interactive: Food Waste Globally
Global Food Crops Face Mass Extinction
New Evidence on Erosion of Crop Variety in Food Supply
The Future of Food (the Nation)
NYT: How organic soil can be critical in CO
2
reduction
Soil and the Sequestration of Carbon
Why the Open Access Movement in Agriculture Matters.
Water Wars and privatization in Lebanon
Public Research Private Gain food&waterwatch Report 2012
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