Food & Agriculture
Articles are sorted by date with the most recently published first.
Measuring Your Ecological Footprint
by Adam Stein
Tesco, a British company, launches a 20-point plan to address climate change, starting with a program of "carbon labeling"
Stalking the Vegetannual
by Barbara Kingsolver
Can an imaginary vegetable save us from a detrimental—and botanically outrageous—national cuisine?
The New Farm Family
The Swanton Berry Farm
Breadbasket of Democracy
by Ted Nace
Can we trust the future of food production to giant biotech corporations and their lobbyists?
Love Song of the Agave
text and photograph by Douglas Menuez
In the northern Mexican town of Tequila, an unwavering tradition yields a fruit in perfect harmony with its culture.
No Two Alike
by Barbara L. Baer
The strange power of a Soviet-era scientist and his ancient, vanishing fruits
Renewing Husbandry
by Wendell Berry
The time of technology and mechanization in agriculture is fast coming to an end. Now it's time to recover what's been lost.
Grace Before Dinner
by Deborah Madison
Vive la difference! Small food producers from around the world celebrate their diversity as well as the values they share -- like flavor, like fairness. A profile of slow food and local food in Italy by a noted restauranteur.
The Klamath Debacle
by Seth Zuckerman
Protecting endangered fish adversely affects thousands of farmers.
Compromise, Hell!
by Wendell Berry
A nation founded on freedom has become uncharacteristically submissive to those who would destroy it. Here's where we draw the line.
Crimes Unseen
by Dena Jones
The modern slaughterhouse is more brutal than it needs to be. A few practical activists are trying to change that.
Profits of Place
by Josh Harkinson
Is a kinder, gentler form of globalization really possible? Absolutely!
Getting Over Organic
by Michael Pollan
Why many of our country's best farmers will no longer even use the word
The Agrarian Standard
by Wendell Berry
Agrarianism seems to be losing ground against industrial agriculture, but it remains the only land use practice that is both viable in the long-term and democratic. Twenty-five years after the publication of his seminal work, "The Unsettling of America," Berry examines what has come to pass in the interim.
Microbial Migrations
by Hilary French and Brian Halweil
Two million people cross a national boundary every day, and with them travel food, insects, and the bacteria that cause diseases like foot and mouth. So what can we do about it?
The Monarch Versus the Global Empire
by Peter Sauer
Caught in the same net as other victims of the post-NAFTA trade regime, the butterfly will fly free only when our country learns to honor human rights abroad and at home.
Thoughts in the Presence of Fear
by Wendell Berry
A response to the attacks of 9/11 by Wendell Berry.
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