Monsanto/Bayer and GMOs (click here)

• 10/28/22: "The Grain Giants Have Made a Bonanza from Hunger. Time to Take Them Apart" 
• 6/14/22: "Pollen and Heat: A Looming Challenge for Global Agriculture"
• 4/28/22: "Up to 40% of the World’s Land Is Degraded by Humans, UN Report Warns" EcoWatch
• 4/19/22: "More Than 50 Billion Tons of Topsoil Have Eroded in the Midwest" Smithsonian
• 3/23/22: "Climate Victory Gardens Continue to Sprout Across the Country " Treehugger
• 3/15/22: "Ukraine Invasion Could Cause Global Food Crisis, UN Warns" EcoWatch
• 2/8/22: "Why is permaculture gardening so popular?"  INHABITAT
• 2/1/22: "Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet " NYT, video series
• 1/8/22: "How to farm in a dry world  LAT"
• 12/27/21: NYT "Record Beef Prices, but Ranchers Aren’t Cashing In" 
• 12/10/21: "Native Americans’ farming practices
  may help feed a warming world" WaPo
• 11/17/21: "EPA finds two widely used pesticides harm majority of endangered species"
• 10/9/21: "African agriculture without African farmers"
• 8/30/21: "Can the Soil Really Save Us? This Company Intends to Find Out" 
• 7/29/21: "Why our broken food system is overshooting the Earth's planetary boundaries" 
• 7/26/21: "The true cost of food is three times what Americans pay for it" WEF
• 7/25/21: "Opinion: Small farms are the future of food systems"
• 6/30/21: "The Department of Yes, How Pesticide Companies Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America", Intercept
• 5/8/21: "If we want to save the planet, the future of food is insects" Guardian
• 4/29/21: "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees: a fast-spreading bacteria could cause an olive-oil apocalypse."
• 4/20/21: "Around the World in Eight Plants"
• 4/14/21: "The Nation’s Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of Its Topsoil"
• 4/5/21: "Bill Gates Is the Biggest Private Owner of Farmland in the United States. Why?"
• 3/19/21: "Feeding Seaweed Supplements to Cows Cuts Methane Emissions by 80%" 
• 3/14/21: "Capitalist Economies Overproduce Food — But People Can’t Afford to Buy It"
• 3/10/21: "Food, Farming, and the Fate of Planet Earth"
• 3/5/21: "Cutting Out Beef Could Cut Agricultural Land Use In Half"
• 2/9/21: "Israeli Farm Cultivates Lab-Grown Ribeye Steak Using 3D Printing"
• 2/2/21: "The Ecological Roots of India's Farming Crisis"
• 2/1/21: "Agricultural Elephant in the Room" 
• 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​

• 9/12/21:"A Hopi farmer works to sustain corn-growing traditions in the face of a changing climate"
• 7/21/21: 'Bill to Subsidize Sustainable Agriculture Is a “Prime Contender” for Reconciliation Package"
• Toxic Pesticides: a primer
• 4/12/21: "5 Ways the Government Can Tackle Food Waste in America"
• 2/9/21: "Making Soil A Part Of The Climate Solution"
• 2/20/21:"80 Million Reasons Not to Pay for Regenerative Farming: The Regenerative Ag Racket" Medium
• 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 CO2 reduction
• Soil and the Sequestration of Carbon
• Composting food waste remains your best option, says UW study UW Research 2015
  
• 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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