Setting the Table for a Climate-Conscious Diet
By Fiona McBride Daily headlines reprimand shoppers for perpetuating climate change, encouraging them to tackle global warming by replacing one supermarket purchase with another or […]
Food & Agricultural
Beyond Overabundance: A Smarter Strategy For True Food Security
By Maria F. Balcazar Tellez Scientists, engineers, and governments today are striving to meet the food demands of the 9.1 billion people expected to live […]
Building the Appetite for Food Policy in National Politics
By Fiona McBride This year’s midterm elections reached a fever pitch unlike many midterms before, producing the highest voter turnout since 1966 and excruciatingly close […]
Employing Monitoring & Evaluation to Improve Wildlife Conservation
By Ratna Sinroja A summer internship in wildlife conservation may sound like niche social work far removed from human problems. However, my organization, Maliasili, seeks […]
Food and Ag Policy under Trump: Farmers, Workers, and Eaters Have Plenty to Fight For
By Beth Spitler Many Americans think that food and agriculture policy has no role in their lives. You eat food, but you’re not a farmer […]
Urban Agriculture Act Increases Opportunities, Support for City Farmers
by Elizabeth Leuin Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently proposed the nation’s most comprehensive urban agriculture legislation. The Urban […]
How Federal Interventions Could Significantly Increase U.S. Food Recovery
by Michael Fleischmann Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported on the curious case of U.S. cheesemakers: they were sitting on a stockpile of […]
How Political Economy Can Inform the GM Labeling Debate
By Eunice Kim and Moon Parks In recent years, controversy surrounding genetically modified [GM] food has taken on a new dimension in the form of […]
Local Food Procurement in Times of Crisis
by Sasha Feldstein The most recent Farm Bill, officially known as the Agricultural Act of 2014, was probably most widely associated with an $8.6 billion cut […]