Brazil has made great progress, but efforts to strengthen environmental protections have continued to face resistance in Congress.
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Op-Ed | Putting Farmers First in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence can help farmers make better decisions, but its success depends on building on local knowledge, earning trust, and understanding the realities of food systems.
Op-Ed | Nourishing the World: Expanding Humanity’s Ambition for Food, Health, and the Planet
“Nourishment is a universal ambition, and its expression must reflect the diversity of people and places.”
Op-Ed | Women Farmers Are Shaping the Future of Food and Agriculture Systems
Across the globe, women are food system champions, nurturing the land and building community. During the International Year of Women Farmers, these farmers and ranchers are getting the visibility that they deserve.
Op-Ed | Blockade Against Cuba Exposes the Fragility of the Global Food System
Cuba is confronting the limits of fossil-fuel-dependent agriculture. But agroecology offers a path to resilience.
Op-Ed | Pockets of Possibility: From Food Environments to Nourishing Meals
The solutions we need are already within reach.
Op-Ed | Beer Can Be Saved from Pesticide Contamination. Here’s What Companies and Consumers Need to Do.
Everyone has an opportunity to support beer that’s produced with more care for our environment and our health.
Op-Ed | Cultivating the Next Generation of African Agri-Entrepreneurs
A mobilized, tech-enabled agricultural workforce builds continental power in Africa.
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.