In honor of Earth Day, Food Systems for the Future is organizing an event to explore methane mitigation efforts and what they might mean for nutrition security.
Report Urges Financial Sector to Take Action and Reverse Biodiversity Loss
Estimates suggest pesticide use is up 80 percent since 1990. That’s a problem for the world’s biodiversity.
Agricultural Carbon Markets Are Not a Climate Solution
Carbon markets have a decade-long track record of failing to stem greenhouse gas emissions, so why are they still presented as a solution?
Mexico’s Highest Court Rejects Appeal of GM Corn Ban
According to the citizen group Demanda Colectiva, the decision is a win for peasants, Indigenous communities, and consumers.
Food Talk Live: Carey Gillam
Carey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and the Research Director for non-profit consumer group U.S. Right to Know, an organization working toward transparency in the food system. Gillam has recently published a new book, entitled The Monsanto Papers, which exposes corruption in one of the world’s biggest pesticide producers.
Most Americans Have Roundup in Their Bodies. Researchers Say One Week of Eating Organic Can Help.
A new study finds that just one week of organic eating can reduce pesticide levels in the body by an average of 60 percent.
Student Activists Lead Grassroots Movement to Ban Synthetic Herbicides
In response to thousands of claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the multinational corporation Bayer announced a new legal settlement. But according to student-led organization Herbicide-Free Campus, Bayer’s proposal falls short of protecting public health.
Herbicide Dicamba Banned by U.S. Court of Appeals
“The approved over-the-top use of dicamba and resulting dicamba drift has damaged millions of acres of soybean fields and countless acres of damage to other crops.”
We All Have the Right to Food Grown Without Toxic Pesticides
In some neighborhoods, organic produce can be inaccessible and unaffordable, but everyone has a right to food free from pesticides.
Opinion | Why Talk of Regenerative Agriculture Should Include Pesticide Reduction
Soil carbon sequestration is becoming a topic for farmers and politicians alike—but which conversations will distinguish sustainability from trend?
To Save Family Farms, We Must Oppose Monsanto-Bayer Merger
The pending Monstanto-Bayer merger will increasingly limit farmers choices while increasing the price of required agricultural inputs. Congressional candidate Austin Frerick is out to right this wrong, restore competition within the market, and save family farms.
