Climate Food and Agriculture
Climate + Food and Agriculture
EDITOR’S NOTE
Grist has acquired the archive and brand assets of The Counter, a decorated nonprofit food and agriculture publication that we long admired, but that sadly ceased publishing in May of 2022.
The Counter had hit on a rich vein to report on, and we’re excited to not only ensure the work of the staffers and contractors of that publication is available for posterity, but to build on it. So we’re relaunching The Counter as a food and agriculture vertical within Grist, continuing their smart and provocative reporting on food systems, specifically where it intersects with climate and environmental issues. We’ve also hired two amazing new reporters to make our plan a reality.
Being back on the food and agriculture beat in a big way is critical to Grist’s mission to lead the conversation, highlight climate solutions, and uncover environmental injustices. What we eat and how it’s produced is one of the easiest entry points into the wider climate conversation. And from this point of view, climate change literally transforms into a kitchen table issue.
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The people who feed America are going hungry
Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs.
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Buy a dozen, give a dozen
What happens when the TOMS Shoes -- get a pair, give a pair -- model gets applied to food? A New York program is trying it out with pastured eggs.
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Food Studies: the science of cookie texture
Water activity and moisture migration sound complex, but make all the difference between chewy and crispy cookies.
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Wall Street and ethanol cause starvation, say scientists
Today's supervillains are soooo boring. If only they'd wear tights and touch entrapped damsels’ hair in a way that made us uncomfortable, we'd be up for patriotically pistol-whipping them, Captain America style. Instead we find out that Wall Street and ethanol -- a diffuse network of trading computers and a colorless inebriant, respectively -- are the reason billions are going hungry in the developing world. How are we supposed to launch a hideously expensive vendetta-war against that?
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Could you go without processed foods for a month?
For even the most health conscious among us, a diet free of processed foods presents a challenge. Give it a try this month.
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Motor City mulch [VIDEO]
A Detroit couple leading the urban-ag uprising there explain how city folks have farmed for years, but "then, the hipsters came along."
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Is Walmart allergic to Pollan?
Food guru Michael Pollan goes toe-to-toe with a Walmart VP to ask: Can the processed food giant ever be a friend to food reformers?
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Kickstarting on-demand heirloom produce
A new online project takes the traditional CSA model one step further by allowing eaters to help decide what heirloom produce farmers plant.
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Labor pains on the farm
Farmers hoping to battle the Great Recession by hiring out-of-work locals in lieu of legal migrants struggle to keep them on the farm. Americans may have gone "soft," but rural depopulation is the root of the problem.
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What worms eat for breakfast
Our budding Worm Mistress settles in to life with the wrigglers and discovers that it's not as complicated as she feared.
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The most beautiful anti-GMO T-shirts you'll ever see
Threadless, which has long been the thinking person's purveyor of silly T-shirts, just ran a design contest with an anti-GMO theme. Artists submitted designs that conveyed a "no GMO" message, and 25 percent of profit from sales of the winning design will go to the Institute for Responsible Technology, which fights GMOs in the United States.
