Articles by Jim Goodman
Jim Goodman, a farmer in Wonewoc, Wisc., was a 2008-2009 Kellogg Foundation Food & Society Policy Fellow.
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Studies show mono-cultures, GMOs, and globalization are problems, not solutions
With the arrival of 2009, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes nearly a billion people a day go hungry worldwide. While India supplies Switzerland with 80 percent of its wheat, 350 million Indians are food-insecure. Rice prices have nearly tripled since early 2007 because, according to the International Rice Research Institute, rice-growing land is being lost to industrialization, urbanization, and shifts to grain crops for animal feed.
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Food should be controlled by farmers, not corporations
Food is an important part of most Holiday celebrations, not just because we need food to live, but food connects us to our culture, our past, and whether we know […]
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Will a new administration give us the ‘safest food supply in the world’?
How many times have we been told we have the safest food supply in the world? Do we really? I suppose it depends on the comparison. Somalia? Kenya ? Eritrea? […]
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McCain and Obama need to talk real farm policy
John McCain and Barack Obama need to start talking farm policy. With less than a month before the November elections in a year marked by a world-wide food crisis, energy […]
