The World’s Biggest School Meal Program Is Keeping Local Farmers in Business
Guest Author: Chris Arsenault | Follow him in Twitter: @chrisarsenaul This piece previously appeared in Yes! Magazine. It appears here by permission under a Creative […]
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How Migrant Workers Are Critical to the Future of Australia’s Agricultural Industry
Guest Post: Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It appears here […]
Could Wild Mangoes Solve the World’s Chocolate Crisis?
Guest authors: Sayma Akhter, Bangor University; Morag McDonald, Bangor University, and Ray Marriott, Bangor University This article originally appeared on The Conversation. It appears here […]
Can Upscale Chocolate Turn the Tide on Haiti’s Devastating Deforestation?
With 98 percent of their trees gone, Haitians eye cocoa-based agroforestry as a way to combat poverty and renew the land. Guest Author: Meg Wilcox […]
These East African Countries Show How Teamwork and Technology Can Thwart Illegal Fishing
Innovation sparks success as nations collaborate to identify and take action against suspect vessels Guest author: Emma Bryce @EmmaSAanne This piece originally appeared in Ensia. […]
Moving Beyond Pro/Con Debates Over Genetically Engineered Crops
Guest Author: Pamela Ronald | Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis This piece originally appeared in The Conversation. It appears here under a […]
Meet the Farmworker Who Helped Win Rent Control in California’s Wine Country
Guest Authors: Brooke AndersonDavin Cardenas and Davin Cardenas This piece originally appeared in Yes! Magazine. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license. After […]
Trump’s Wall Ignores the Economic Logic of Undocumented Immigrant Labor
Guest Author: Lise Nelson, Pennsylvania State University This article previously appeared in The Conversation. It appears here by permission under a Creative Commons license. EDITOR’S […]
Alcoholism Research: A Virus Could Manipulate Neurons to Reduce the Desire to Drink
Guest authors: Yifeng Cheng, Texas A&M University and Jun Wang, Texas A&M University About 17 million adults and more than 850,000 adolescents had some problems […]
With the Familiar Cavendish Banana in Danger, Can Science Help it Survive?
Guest authors: Ioannis Stergiopoulos, University of California, Davis; André Drenth, The University of Queensland, and Gert Kema, Wageningen University __________________________ The banana is the world’s […]
How Technology Is Making It Easier to Track Fish From Hook to Fork
A combination of new tracing technologies and business models are making it easier to figure out how and where a fish was caught. Guest Author: […]
European Union: Please Make Up Your Mind on Organic, for the Sake of the Environment
Guest Author: Gary Frewin Is the practice of organic farming supposed to be about eco-farming at its best or is it supposed to be all […]
What Is It About This Soil That Protects Plants From Devastating Disease?
Guest author: Kayleigh O’Keeffe This story previously appeared in Ensia on September 21,2016 Figuring out why certain soils keep plant parasites at bay could be […]
We’ve Changed a Life-Giving Nutrient into a Deadly Pollutant. How Can We Change it Back?
[This piece originally appeared in Ensia on March 25, 2016. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license.] By Elizabeth Grossman Coastal dead zones, […]
If Everybody Hates Wasting Food, Why Do We Do It (and how can we stop)?
[This piece originally appeared in Ensia on October 29, 2015. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license.] By Mary Hoff It was bound […]
Agroecology Can Help Fix Our Broken Food System. Here’s How.
Guest author: Maywa Montenegro @MaywaMontenegro Food systems researcher, UC Berkeley This story was previously published by Ensia on 17 June 2015. It was co-published with […]
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 – […]
Crop Gene Banks are Preserving the Future of Agriculture. But Who’s Preserving Them?
This article was originally published in Ensia on 21 May 2015. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license. GUEST AUTHOR: Virginia Gewin (@VirginiaGewin) […]
The Future of Oceans
GUEST AUTHOR: Mary Hoff This piece originally appeared in Ensia. It is republished under a Creative Commons license. Oceans cover more than two thirds of […]
Drone Wars: using drones to spread beneficial bugs
By Amanda Froelich This article previously appeared in TrueActivist.com and is republished under a Creative Commons license. As part of a summer scholarship project […]