A mobilized, tech-enabled agricultural workforce builds continental power in Africa.
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Op-Ed | Who Will Carry Seed Diversity Forward?
We must also invest in the people who will keep seeds alive and useful.
Op-Ed | Cultivating Health: Food, Relationships, and the Living World
To cultivate health, we need connection. We need community.
Op-Ed | A New Future for Farming, Food, and Health
Three key myths continue to undermine progress to transform our food and agriculture systems.
Op-Ed | Blue Foods Already Feed the World: In the U.S., Awareness and Optimism Grow
Demand for responsibly sourced seafood sends important signals that reward fisheries investing in sustainable practices.
Op-Ed | Food Systems at the Threshold: Wonder Between What Is and What Could Be
The relationships we cultivate shape what becomes possible. When those relationships flourish, food systems flourish—and so do we.
Op-Ed | First We Subsidized Factory Farms. Now We’re Redesigning Animals for Them.
A new report warns that genetically engineered animals will deepen the harms of factory farming—just as the Senate debates the next Farm Bill.
Op-Ed | How Soil Health Is Promoted Through Traditional Knowledge and Modern Science
Farmers are learning from researchers—just as researchers are also learning from farmers.
Op-Ed | The Food System Is Driving Two Crises at Once—and Could Help Solve Both
Meaningful progress on both climate and public health will require addressing some of the same upstream drivers.
Op-Ed | Smart Farming Is Not the Future. It Is Already Here.
The next agricultural revolution is underway.
Op-Ed | Can Understanding the Dark Matter of Food Revolutionize Agriculture?
Natural plant compounds may one day be a tool for reducing the overuse of synthetic herbicides that harm the environment and human health.
Op-Ed | Tasting the Landscape: A Love Letter to the Biology of Food and Being
The molecules of different foods meet within us, shaping our senses, our cells, and our connection to the living world.
Op-Ed | Consumers Think Regenerative Means No Pesticides. They’re Often Wrong.
Some regenerative labeling programs still allow the use of synthetic pesticides, including substances linked to cancer and infertility.
Op-Ed | We Can Find $200 Billion for War. Why Not for Food Security at Home?
Today’s unhealthy food system results not simply from individual choices but policy choices that limit access.
Op-Ed | The Future of Protein Is Delicious and Data-Backed
If we want to shift diets at scale, we have to start with taste. As science reveals how protein quality shapes flavor and function, taste is the on ramp to healthy diets from sustainable food systems.
Op-Ed | The Nutritionists Are Right. We Must End Hunger Differently.
Investing in nutrition-sensitive agriculture ensures not just more food, but more healthy food.
Op-Ed | Fixing Our School Food System Requires Cooperation—Not Going it Alone
More than 25 food companies, nonprofits, and advocates are collaborating to improve school meal proteins and demonstrate the power of cooperative competition.
Op-Ed | Dietary Guidelines for (Some) Americans: The Impact of Ignoring Health Equity in the DGA
What happened to health equity in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
Op-Ed | If You Care about Climate Change, Work for Land Rights
We won’t be able to mitigate emissions or adapt to a changing world if we do not plan for a just transition.
Op-Ed | ICARRD+20: The Principles Are Clear, But Political Will Is Missing
There’s a real opportunity to transform land governance. We can’t waste it.