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These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and...

Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that...

Unlike the US, Europe is setting ambitious targets for producing more...

Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University President Joe Biden has called for an all-of-government response to climate change that looks...

‘Organic’ label doesn’t guarantee that holiday ham was a happy pig

Michael Haedicke, Drake University This holiday season, Americans will buy some 20 million turkeys and 300 million pounds of ham. Some of these turkeys and hams...

Would Rachel Carson eat organic?

Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,”...

Healthy to eat, unhealthy to grow: Strawberries embody the contradictions of...

Julie Guthman, University of California, Santa Cruz Agricultural abundance is a pillar of the California dream. In 2016 the state turned out more than US$45...

Cuba’s sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw

Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley President Obama’s trip to Cuba this week accelerated the warming of U.S.-Cuban relations. Many people in both countries believe...

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