To preserve the environment, mitigate climate change and stabilize the U.S. food system, Midwest farmers should diversify their crops and move away from raising corn and soybeans, researchers say. The ...
A globalized food system has its obvious benefits staring at us from the grocery store shelves: fresh red strawberries no matter the season and flash-frozen seafood available thousands of miles from ...
Companies are increasingly becoming interested in regenerative agriculture to meet growing consumer demand for agricultural goods that advance environmental, climate and social justice goals, but ...
“We’re good at working with the land and working with the animals, but then all of a sudden you have to add marketing and sales and inventory management,” says Markegard. Based 50 miles south of San ...
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Farmers in Iowa have relied on the same weather pattern ...
As regenerative ag gains momentum in the US, how do we ensure that the transition of the food system materializes in a way that supports equitable economic prosperity while allowing people and planet ...
The American food system is a global leader when it comes to productivity, resiliency, and innovation. It provides an abundance of safe and affordable food to not only Americans, but people across the ...
Members of the 110th Wing, Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Mich., serve the local community by packaging food at South Michigan Food Bank in Battle Creek, Mich. on April 20, 2020. The Michigan ...
In developing countries, the food system employs the majority of people in self and wage employment both on and off the farm. Changes in diets, rising consumer demand and urbanization, supported by ...