(Originally published on Heated)
For the third straight year, U.N. agencies have documented rising levels of severe hunger in the world, affecting 820 million people. More than 2 billion suffer “moderate or severe” food insecurity.
Read moreOpinion | Agroecology as Innovation
(Originally published by Food Tank)
On July 3, the High Level Panel of Experts of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its much-anticipated report on agroecology in Rome. The report signals the continuing shift in emphasis in the UN agency’s approach to agricultural development.
Read moreMonocultures of the Genetically Modified Mind: My surreal encounter with Monsanto in Mexico →
Farming First: A Recipe to Feed a Crowded World →
(Originally published by Heated)
Policymakers from Mexico to Malawi, India to Mozambique, routinely advocated large-scale, capital-intensive agricultural projects as the solution to widespread hunger and low agricultural productivity, oblivious to the reality that such initiatives generally displace more farmers than they employ.
Read moreWill 2020 Democrats address ag-industry concentration? →
(Originally published by Des Moines Register)
From the food on our tables to the medicines in our cabinets, Bayer and Monsanto are behind more products than many people realize.
Read moreGetting Smart About Climate and Agriculture →
(Originally published on Medium)
In southern Africa, there is nothing abstract about climate change.
Read moreEating Tomorrow: Chapter 1 - Introduction
In Mozambique’s lovely capital city of Maputo, the afternoon temperature had just hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Maputo is in the tropics, but this was October 2017, its springtime, and no one could remember a hotter October day.
Read moreWe're All in the Same Lifeboat Now: Climate change comes for farmers, from Mozambique to Iowa →
It felt ominous when I was in Iowa in March that both Iowa and Mozambique were underwater from cyclone-induced flooding widely attributed to climate change… (Read full article)
Read moreWhy Mexican Farmers Are Hopeful About López Obrador’s Win →
Food Tank
A mobilized farmers’ movement will expect and demand action on key planks in their platform to revitalize rural Mexico. Soon after López Obrador takes office on December 1, they expect quick action on several key issues.
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