The current wave of food anxiety stems, in large part, from a misunderstanding of hazard versus risk.
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Op-Ed | Exploring a Just Transition for Livestock Agriculture and Cellular Agriculture
Regenerative livestock farming, cellular agriculture, and precision fermentation each play a role in strengthening the food supply.
Together, We Can Build Better Food and Agriculture Systems
Food is at the heart of our biggest challenges—and the most exciting, impactful solutions.
Op-Ed | Adopting Sustainable Diets: Local Action Drives Larger Change in EU
Guidelines to improve diets are not always adapted to regional traditions. Yet Eating is a deeply personal and cultural matter.
Op-Ed | Defining Regenerative Agriculture with Integrity
New science reveals the toxic footprint and climate costs of conventional no-till farming practices that are sold as regenerative agriculture.
Op-Ed | Why Gender Equality Is the Key to Healthy Diets for Everyone
Changing norms and creating fair policies can lead to meaningful improvements in women’s economic participation and leadership.
Op-Ed | Nourishing Food Systems for People and the Planet through Agroecology
Agroecology can be the solution to our nutrition and environmental crises.
Op-Ed | Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Why the Food Movement Should Fight for Undocumented Communities
The U.S. food system, from farms to processing to grocery and restaurant work, depends on undocumented workers.
Op-Ed | New Dietary Guidelines Should Recognize Link Between Planetary and Human Health
Small changes to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans could have a big environmental impact.
Op-Ed | The World’s Desert Farmers and Chefs Can Guide the U.S. into a Braised New World
It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world. Desert farmers and chefs will be central in this transformation.
Op-Ed | Why Philanthropy Should Back and Engage in the Committee on World Food Security
Bringing together a diversity of actors working on food systems governance offers unique advantages to elevate the impact of philanthropy.
Op-Ed | Reimagining Food as a Path to Health and Equity
Addressing America’s health crisis requires us to rethink our entire approach to food. Seeing food as medicine opens the door to addressing the root causes of these challenges.
Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity
Agroecology can align action on biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation.
Op-Ed | Microfinance Empowers Women and Builds Community Resilience
Micro-enterprises bring women power, self-sufficiency and, importantly, and freedom from social and economic barriers.
Op-Ed | A Case for Food Diversification
Diversification is the key to the resilience of our food systems. This is true around our climate-impacted world, but especially so across Africa and in my home country of Zimbabwe. Through both my academic research and my work as a…
Op-Ed | How Can Conscious Transformation Help Food Systems?
To truly transform food systems or address the root causes of the polycrisis we are facing, technical solutions will not be enough.
Op-Ed | Conflict Threatens to Generate Another Cycle of Refugee Seeds
The current conflict in the Middle East is putting some of the most desert-adapted seed collections in the world at risk.
Op-Ed | Nonsense in the US-Mexico Corn Fight
The U.S. is challenging Mexico’s attempts to prohibit genetically modified corn for human consumption. But Mexico argues that the ban seeks to avoid the risks created by toxic herbicides.
Op-Ed | The Most Sustainable Fish You Probably Never Knew Existed
The Bering Sea offers a global model for how fish, fishers, and communities can all thrive.