While plant species around the world will have to cope with warming temperatures and a changing climate, coffee is especially vulnerable to these changes.
“Campesinos” are driving the evolution of maize in North America
Meanwhile, food insecurity among new immigrant families has nearly doubled in the last decade.
Agroecology isn’t rocket science. It simply takes full advantage of nature’s assets, drawn from the farm itself and surrounding ecosystems, to grow food
“Over the last year,” Goldstein charges, “Rep. Goodlatte has made it his mission to create a massive new guest worker program of millions of captive workers who have even fewer labor rights than the current workers they would replace
Photographer David Bacon shares stunning images of farmworkers harvesting cabbage the old-fashioned way, and writes that the ubiquitous if undervalued vegetable is actually a shared cultural touchstone.
Institutional expressions of racism in the US food system and ways universities can contribute to challenging racism.
Oranges were likely first cultivated in southern China (references to the fruit can be found in region’s literature as far back as 314 BC). They’ve since been hybridized, re-hybridized, and altered so much that there are hundreds of orange varieties throughout the world. Can you tell the difference between varieties?
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