The Protein Gap: Nutritional Science’s Biggest Error
Despite the fact that the protein gap theory has been thoroughly debunked, the focus on protein deficiency still persists in many minds.
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The Resistance of Peruvian Coffee
In Peru, as yellow rust disease has devastated top quality coffee harvests, coca for cocaine is filling for farmers who need to bolster sagging incomes.
A Three Legged Stool or Four Legged Table for Development?
If cash transfers replace in kind contributions in development, will essential services be lost? Can the development community transition to a fee for service model?
Four Threats to Global Food Security and What We Can Do About Them
Stuart Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Plant Biochemistry at the University of Westminster lays four key challenges to global food security: drought, emerging diseases, salty soils, and fertilizer dependence.
Why Giving Surplus Food to Charities is Not a Solution to Food Poverty
A key danger of charity food aid is the de-politicisation of hunger. As the charity sector mobilises to meet this need, there is less pressure on the government to address the root causes of food poverty, which are essentially income related.
Famine Doesn’t Just ‘Happen’ – Those Who Cause Famine Must Be Held to Account
The continued representation of famines as disastrous events largely sprung upon populations by the forces of nature, prevents us from understanding famine – and food insecurity – as a socio-political process, even though doing so is especially important for realising its future prevention.
Mind the Gaps: Reducing Hunger by Improving Yields on Small Farms
There are tremendous opportunities to increase yields throughout South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing yields through new farming practices could triple maize production in sub-Saharan Africa and increase wheat and rice production in South Asia by about 50 percent. Gains on this scale could dramatically reduce hunger and food insecurity in some of the most vulnerable nations in the world.
How Brexit Threatens Britain’s Food Security
Guest Author: Tim Lang, City, University of London | @ProfTimLang This article was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under the Creative Commons […]
Why Africa Should Resist the Power of Big Sugar to Undermine Public Health
GUEST AUTHOR: Rob Moodie, Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne | Follow him on Twitter: @ARobM This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It […]
Urban Farming Is Booming, But What Does It Really Yield?
This story was originally published in Ensia on 27 April 2015. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Guest author: Elizabeth Royte – […]
Incentivizing Work in SNAP with Vegetables
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older pieces of writing on the theme. This piece previously was published on 9 […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Five | Biotech: A Tool for Sustainability
In the last volume of our Culinary Modernist Reader, we looked at farmers who are practicing sustainable industrial agriculture and showing that it does not […]
Feedback Loops, Institutional Reform and the Pitfalls of a Second Best World
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older posts and essays from REALFOOD.ORG. This piece was originally published on My professional […]
Re-routing supermarket waste to low income citizens, French and American style
Two stories hit the same day in remarkable parallel. The first from France: French supermarkets will be banned from throwing away or destroying unsold food […]
So Long Ridiculously Cheap Frozen Pizza. I Hardly Knew You.
Not long ago, my local Fred Meyer stopped carrying Jeno’s frozen pizzas. Not long before that, I had discovered Jeno’s frozen pizzas. I’ve never found […]
In Defense of Gwyneth Paltrow’s #SNAPChallenge #Fail – 3 Ways her critics went wrong
A few weeks back, Gwyneth Paltrow was challenged by Mario Batali to take the SNAP Challange and attempted to live on a food stamp budget […]
SNAP Judgements
Earlier last month news hit that a Republican state legislator in Missouri had introduced a bill that would limit SNAP (food stamp) recipients from using […]
The Rice Bucket Challenge
Amazing how NOT being a bloated, imperial culture can focus the mind.
Thoughts on Food Banks Refusing Unhealthy Donations
The other day I was asked what I thought about a food pantry refusing donations of unhealthy food. An Ottawa food bank is saying no […]