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Land grab

Will Africa’s farmland become a ‘resource curse’? 7
Posted 3 days, 9 hours ago by Tom Philpott
The New York Times Magazine recently ran a great piece about rich nations buying up farmland in Africa. Tom Philpott gives his take. Read More
It's a roux story

Turn your turkey carcass into a spectacular gumbo 4
Posted 4 days, 10 hours ago by April McGreger
Foodie sites are now brimming with recipes for the Thanksgiving feast. As usual, April McGreger's thinking ahead. She delivers the goods on what to do with the turkey leftovers. Goodbye, mundane sandwiches; hello, delicious gumbo. Read More
Meat Wagon

Uh-oh: Tamiflu-resistant swine flu rears up in the U.S., U.K. 1
Posted 1 week ago by Tom Philpott
Ever since evolution of the swine flu virus accelerated in 1998, virologists and veterinary-science have warned that factory hog farms create the ideal conditions for generating novel viruses. Read More

More Food

With GoodGuide scanner, PC food shopping goes point and click 0
Posted 3 days, 9 hours ago by Todd Woody
Thanks to a new barcode scanner app, grocery shoppers can aim their iPhones at 63,000 different food products for details on the health, environmental, and social "performance" of the products and their makers. Read More
Oh, SNAP!

More NYC farmers markets accept food stamps and sales soar 1
Posted 3 days, 12 hours ago by Tom Laskawy
The NYT's Cityroom blog offers some hopeful news on getting more healthy food into low-income neighborhoods. Read More
Infrastructurally unsound

Grist Exclusive: Will Whole Foods’ new mobile slaughterhouses squeeze small farmers? 9
Posted 1 week ago by Tom Laskawy
For years, small-scale poultry farmers have had trouble processing their birds for market. Grist has learned that Whole Foods is looking to solve just that problem. But will the retail giant's effort squeeze the very farmers it's designed to help? Read More
Don't eat the hype

Ecological farms: the only real way to feed an increasingly hungry world 11
Posted 1 week ago by Debbie Barker
There are those who would like us to believe that industrialized farming is the only way to feed the earth's growing population. It's simply not true. Read More
Plate Tectonics

No to Obama’s agrichemical industry man, yes to Bed-Stuy Farm 2
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago by Tom Philpott
This post marks the launch of "Plate Tectonics," a new feature that highlights ways that citizen action can move the food system in more sustainable directions. First task: jamming the revolving door between the agrichemical industry and the Obama administration. Read More
thanks for nothing

Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving 3
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago by Brad Johnson
Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, strengthened by global warming, caused $1.6 billion in agriculture damage in Louisiana alone. Now it appears that a Thanksgiving mainstay -- pumpkin pie -- is next on the global boiling hit list. Read More
Are you faux real?

A tasting of four meatless “turkeys” for the holiday table 31
Posted 1 week, 1 day ago by Lou Bendrick
There are ways to celebrate Thanksgiving that don't involve turkey carnage. Lou Bendrick and her motley band of tasters deliver the goods on four meatless "birds." Read More
Choice nuggets

Gourmet’s conscience, Gopnik on cookbooks, and other tasty morsels 3
Posted 1 week, 2 days ago by Tom Philpott
Grist's food editor serves up a brief rundown of interesting food/agriculture journalism from around the web. Read More
Tuna Blues

So long and thanks for all the fish 46
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Tom Laskawy
There was some hope recently that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the organization charged with managing the Atlantic tuna fishery, would listen to its own scientists and ban commercial Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing so that the species might survive. Nope. Read More
You might need a drink after you read this

Winemakers face climate change with dread 3
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Agence France-Presse
With the Copenhagen climate change summit looming, the world of wine convened on Spain's Rioja region for a conference in which global warming emerged as the industry's top concern. Read More
Big fish, little fish

A parable on the National School Lunch Program 4
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Ann Cooper, Kate Adamick
The National School Lunch program, with all of its intricacies, can seem extremely complicated. But take a step back and look at it with clear eyes, and it's really pretty simple. Read More
Meat wagon

Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more 16
Posted 1 week, 4 days ago by Tom Philpott
Why isn't the federal government seriously investigating the possible CAFO-swine flu link? I've posed that question several times recently, most recently here. Now let me venture an answer. Read More
The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small spaces!) 1
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Makenna Goodman
Lester Brown and I, diavlogging 5
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago by David Roberts
Feed the world sustainably by 2050? Yes, we can! 5
Posted 2 weeks, 2 days ago by Tom Laskawy
Time for the mainstream media to face the factory farm-swine flu link 23
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Tom Philpott
How the 40 year drop in the minimum wage helped cause obesity 3
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Tom Laskawy
The Copenhagen Conference on food security 7
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by Lester Brown
Random Monday thoughts inspired by a throwaway line from Mark Bittman 5
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago by Tom Philpott
While scientists fight over BPA studies, Congress could just act 1
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago by Tom Laskawy
Climate Citizen: Michael Pollan on agriculture and health care 3
Posted 3 weeks ago
For swine flu, forget origins and start thinking about practices 6
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago by Tom Philpott