Technique of the Week: Drip Irrigation
I’ve managed to recruit some volunteers to help out with the “Technique of the Week” conservation agriculture feature, but of course, I haven’t found the […]
Environment
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Bees and Pesticides Edition
Planning pesticide application around the arrival of bees for pollination would seem like something that growers and beekeepers should be able to work out among […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Four | On the Farm: The Quest for Better
In volume three of this series, we “stress tested” the legs of the locavore stool: Small. Local. Organic. Here we turn to efforts to farm […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Two | Comestibles: We Need Better Fast Food, Junk Food & Convenience Food
What does improving our diet look like for the consumer who doesn’t want to eat like their great grandparents and how can technology and the food industry develop more sustainable, more nutritious foods for the contemporary eater? We need better convenience food.
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume One | Opening Salvos
Food and Farm Discussion Lab member Rachel Laudan’s essay in Jacobin entitled “A Plea for Culinary Modernism” set off more than a ripple when it […]
Why I’d Rather Be a Team Big Dissident, Than a Team Small Cheerleader
This piece originally appeared in REALFOOD.ORG. [Please consider supporting Food and Farm Discussion Lab with an ongoing contribution of $1, $2, $3, $5 or $10 […]
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 […]
Slugs, Roseannadanna, and Agroecology as a Moving Target.
Vice has an interesting piece on the historical causes of current problems with slugs on Oregon farms. The author, Leah Sottile details how a pair […]
Cut pesticide use to boost yields? It’s worked for millions of farmers in Asia and Africa
[This article originally appeared in The Conversation on April 30, 2015 . It is published here under a Creative Commons License] [The FAFDL Facebook thread […]
No, Corn Ethanol Isn’t Agriculture’s Walter White. But Our Ethanol Rules Might End Up Breaking Bad
(Somebody call the headline police. That’s just embarrassing.) This Think Progress article wondering if corn was breaking the law by being transformed into ethanol is […]
Young Guatemalan Farmers Fight For Land Rights, Local Food, and Sustainable Traditions Endangered by Global Trade Deals
By Jeff Abbott (This piece was originally published in Yes Magazine on May 05, 2015. It is republished here, under a Creative Commons License.) There […]
How coastal communities with shellfisheries can prepare for ocean acidification
Sarah Cooley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Julia Ekstrom, University of California, Davis (This piece originally appeared in The Conversation on February 24, 2015 and […]
The Biggest Source of Plastic Trash You’ve Never Heard Of
From acres of sheeting to miles of twine, farms use billions of pounds of plastic each year. What can we do to reduce the impact?
5 Big Drivers Behind the Chipotle Backlash
The last few days at Chipotle HQ could not have been much fun for the people running the marketing and public relations operation. The response […]
Notes From The Glyphosate Dust Up.
I don’t have much to add to the recent dustup over the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) designating that glyphosate is a […]
Women Over 65 Own Nearly a Third of Iowa’s Farmland—Can They Prevent the Next Dust Bowl?
So many older women are inheriting farms that some experts believe training them in land conservation may be society’s best bet in protecting the food supply.
Focus on Pesticides is a Distraction from Major Eco Impacts
Whether pesticide use is still a major environmental concern in farming remains a central debate. Let’s look at the data.
Best of 2014 from FAFDL.org and REALFOOD.org
[Please consider supporting FAFDL.org by making a donation to our research library. Don’t be shy about helping out with penny a paperback selections. Every bit […]
Big Ag and Small Farms: Why We Need Both
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Some Crisp Thinking on Beef Impacts
(photo by Petras Gagilas – flickr – CC) I recently picked a few nits with a post by Jayson Lusk on the environmental impact of […]