Tag: agriculture
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University
These are difficult times in farm country....
Why some plastic packaging is necessary to prevent food waste and...
Manoj Dora, Brunel University London and Eleni Iacovidou, Brunel University London
There has been a surge in awareness of the damage that plastic pollution does...
Convicts are returning to farming – anti-immigrant policies are the reason
Stian Rice, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow.
Convict leasing for agriculture...
How soybeans became China’s most powerful weapon in Trump’s trade war
Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University
Soybeans may not seem all that useful in a war. Nonetheless they’ve become China’s most important weapon in its...
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University
As devastating images of the 2019 Midwest floods fade from view, an insidious and...
How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in...
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields
Amanda Cavanagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom lin
Joanne Burgess, Colorado State University and Edward Barbier, Colorado State University
In...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
