Our fall reading list spotlights 26 powerful new books that explore food, farming, culture, and climate—and how they shape our future.
This week’s news roundup explores new pesticide restrictions in Mexico and France, unspent USDA farm funds, the MAHA strategy, and more.
Farmers are experimenting with conservation agriculture and debating the role of fertilizers and herbicides in building resilience.
A leaked draft MAHA Strategy to address childhood chronic disease highlights education and research but avoids tougher restrictions on industry.
IPES exposes how food systems became the oil and gas industries’ next target—and what to do to break the fossil fuel cycle.
The Better Chicken Commitment invites poultry producers and food companies to take responsibility for animal welfare.
4th-generation farmer Brita Lundberg shares how her family’s company is taking a holistic approach to agriculture that can mitigate the climate crisis.
The planetary boundaries framework looks at human’s impact on the environment more holistically than just focusing on greenhouse gasses and climate change.
A debt crisis is pushing millions more people around the world into hunger.
A new book shows the U.S. meat industry, as it currently exists, cannot survive.
The benefits of agroecology are backed by scientific evidence, but a recent film shows philanthropists continue to fund industrialized agriculture.
The EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission held a press conference to update the public on their forthcoming report, which will include goals for healthy diets and sustainable food systems.
A recent investment in an agribusiness giant will drive further environmental destruction and disenfranchisement of local and indigenous communities while enriching one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful industrial agribusinesses.
Multinational development banks that pledged to align their lending with the Paris Agreement continue to pump money into industrial animal agriculture.
New resources help students understand the ways industrial agriculture and agrochemicals impact their own communities and surrounding environments.
Several supermarket chains in Europe are boycotting Brazilian beef in response to a report revealing major Brazilian meat producers like JBS S.A., Marfrig, and Minerva indirectly source cattle from illegally deforested areas in the Amazon.
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Raphael Podselver of ProVeg International discusses the impact of industrial livestock production on the environment, the challenge of shifting eaters’ diets, and the importance of putting food on the agenda at future global conferences.
The EU Commission recently pledged to phase out, and eventually ban, caged farming by 2027.
A new report poses questions about the environmental impact of alternative meat.
Climate change is having an increasingly negative impact on global food security, and these impacts are falling disproportionately on women.
