Instead of Trying to Feed the World, Let鈥檚 Help It Feed Itself
We know about the ecological problems that follow when farmers are asked to 鈥渇eed the world.鈥� What would happen if they just tried to feed their neighbors instead?
Sustainable food and farming
Edible Insects: Gross-Out or Global Food Solution?
Cultural attitudes toward food tend to change slowly. But as we struggle to feed a growing population, insects present a remarkably plentiful source of nutrition.
Oakland Youth Swap Fast Food for Fresh Food
Video: A group of young people in West Oakland are taking control of what they eat and using pedal power to bring local groceries to produce-strapped communities.
Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
It鈥檚 organic. It鈥檚 local. But did the workers who picked it have health insurance?
Food or Ethanol? Why Farmers Shouldn鈥檛 Give in to Monocrops
It鈥檚 a good time to be in farming if you like to grow corn. It鈥檚 a tough time if you see yourself as a steward of the land. Shannon Hayes on why growers pressured by corn-heavy markets should hold out for crops that nourish the Earth.
What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
Back in the 鈥�60s, Frances Moore Lapp茅 realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
Book Review: Inside Will Allen鈥檚 Good Food Revolution
Like growing vegetables from seed to harvest, overhauling the country's food system takes time.
Want Sustainable Fish? Barn-Raised
Aquaponics takes advantage of nature鈥檚 processes to fill Americans鈥� growing appetite for fish鈥攚ithout overfishing or destructive farming.
Invasive Species: If You Can鈥檛 Beat 鈥檈m, Eat 鈥檈m
Species like green crabs, feral pigs, snakeheads, and zebra mussels cost $120 billion a year in damage. For a cheaper alternative, try eating them instead.
Traditional Foods Help Remind Us Who We Are
Tribes are pursuing a hands-on approach to finding and preparing Native foods that give spiritual sustenance, too.
Detroit鈥檚 Good Food Cure
What happens when the Motor City transforms itself into the capital of grow-your-own food?
Farmers Go Wild
Going beyond organic, a new generation of farmers is nurturing nature as well as crops.
Joel Salatin: How to Eat Animals and Respect Them, Too
Why this foodie farmer believes sustainable farming includes meat.
Humane Meat? No Such Thing
Should we eat animals? My disability gives me a unique view on the oxymoron "humane meat."
Temple Grandin on Thinking Like a Cow
Autistic scientist Temple Grandin thinks like an animal鈥攊n pictures鈥攁nd she's using it to get more humane treatment for cattle.
Just the Facts: Should We Eat Animals?
We can feed the world and still eat meat鈥攂ut only a little bit.
From Vacant City Lots to Food On the Table
How to grow food where we need it.
Farming in Dry Times
An old North Dakota farm is a laboratory for growing food when water runs short.
Everybody Eats: How a Community Food System Works
It begins with small farms working with natural cycles and ends with fresh food and stronger communities.
Food Rebellions: 7 Steps to Solving the Food Crisis
Resistance to the trade and 鈥渁id鈥� policies that displace farmers and increase hunger.
Just the Facts: Corporate Food
Hunger. Pollution. Instability. Obesity. The problem with corporate food--by the numbers.
Lessons from My Mother鈥檚 Village Kitchen
Schools, fresh foods, and memories from India. Madhu Suri Prakash reflects on the culinary traditions of her family.
Saying Grace Around the World
Artist Nikki McClure adds her touch to our collection of mealtime prayers from around the world.
The Good Food Revolution
The lush landscape of Hawai鈥榠 once offered abundant food. What can these islands teach us about food and sufficiency?
Food From the Grassroots
The food crisis is only getting worse. The answer involves a deep shift in the way our food comes to us. By making local governments pay attention to hunger, a range of organizations, working on everything from local food purchasing programs to farmers markets, are shaping the future of food.
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