A globalized food system has its obvious benefits staring at us from the grocery store shelves: fresh red strawberries no matter the season and flash-frozen seafood available thousands of miles from ...
Laura Lengnick is a big thinker on agriculture and the environment. She has been guided in her work by the understanding that the problems generated by the U.S. industrial food system have been as ...
To preserve the environment, mitigate climate change and stabilize the U.S. food system, Midwest farmers should diversify their crops and move away from raising corn and soybeans, researchers say. The ...
Beyond humanity’s reliance on agriculture to produce the food we need to survive, one in eight people depend on the food and agriculture system for their livelihoods. Veris Wealth Partners believes ...
Companies are increasingly becoming interested in regenerative agriculture to meet growing consumer demand for agricultural goods that advance environmental, climate and social justice goals, but ...
“We’re good at working with the land and working with the animals, but then all of a sudden you have to add marketing and sales and inventory management,” says Markegard. Based 50 miles south of San ...
To feed the world and then some, farms and pastures take up a lot of space — 40 percent of all land globally is used for agriculture — and inevitably take a significant toll on the environment. “I ...
Fifth-generation apple farmer Jamie Sonneville understands the stresses that come with predicting revenue in the agriculture industry. Variables such as crop yields, weather, and costs associated with ...
Members of the 110th Wing, Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Mich., serve the local community by packaging food at South Michigan Food Bank in Battle Creek, Mich. on April 20, 2020. The Michigan ...
Nigeria has taken a step towards digitising its overstretched agricultural extension system by validating a proposed ...