Climate Food and Agriculture
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Climate change threatens America’s ‘king corn’
Heat waves and water shortages could devastate U.S. farmlands devoted to corn crop, a new report warns.
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Fish are great at fighting climate change. Too bad we’re eating them all.
Fish are superheroes when it comes to sequestering carbon and slowing global warming -- but overfishing and bycatch are killing these deep-sea ecosystems.
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Here’s a new way to keep cattle burps from toasting the planet
Scientists have developed a powder that can be added to cattle feed to reduce their methane emissions by more than half.
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Organic farming is great, but it’s not Jesus
Organic agriculture can indeed do good things for the soil that reduce greenhouse gases. But overselling the advantages can backfire.
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Chef Dan Barber on the farm-to-table movement’s next steps
The Blue Hill chef talks his new book, why tomatoes are the Hummers of the veggie world, and how soil is constantly talking to us.
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Michelle Obama’s food fight with GOP: Schools just want to have funds
Politicians fighting over funding for school lunches are lurching toward loosening rules when they should really get serious about boosting funding.
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Oregon county bans GMO crops
Organic farmers, worried about contamination, win a local campaign, even though the state has its own new rules barring locales from regulating GMOs.
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The bottom line is why Big Food should take a stand on climate
Oxfam names the 10 food companies that could make a difference in helping push governments to get serious about carbon emission regulations.
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This site will answer all your growing queries
PlantVillage crowdsources responses to all sorts of farming questions from around the globe, pooling scholarly info with hands-on experience.
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14 pointers toward a better food system: Connecting the (local, sustainable) dots
If we want to scale up the local food movement's ideas, here's a list of principles that could make all the difference.