Climate Food and Agriculture
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Chef Dan Barber on the farm-to-table movement’s next steps
The Blue Hill chef talks his new book, why tomatoes are the Hummers of the veggie world, and how soil is constantly talking to us.
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Michelle Obama’s food fight with GOP: Schools just want to have funds
Politicians fighting over funding for school lunches are lurching toward loosening rules when they should really get serious about boosting funding.
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Oregon county bans GMO crops
Organic farmers, worried about contamination, win a local campaign, even though the state has its own new rules barring locales from regulating GMOs.
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The bottom line is why Big Food should take a stand on climate
Oxfam names the 10 food companies that could make a difference in helping push governments to get serious about carbon emission regulations.
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This site will answer all your growing queries
PlantVillage crowdsources responses to all sorts of farming questions from around the globe, pooling scholarly info with hands-on experience.
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14 pointers toward a better food system: Connecting the (local, sustainable) dots
If we want to scale up the local food movement's ideas, here's a list of principles that could make all the difference.
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When climate change hurts crops, everyone suffers
Climate change stands to change agriculture, with increased droughts, decreased yields, and new challenges from pests -- which means disruption and hardship for humans.
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Does your supermarket flunk the green seafood test?
Greenpeace's useful annual report card tells you how each supermarket chain does, or doesn't, look out for the ocean and its wildlife.
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Our alarming food future, explained in 7 charts
The takeaway on food from the National Climate Assessment: As the temperature goes up, crop yields will go down.
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Now, some carbon research even climate deniers can get bummed over
New evidence suggests that increasing levels of carbon, by itself -- not via the hotter climate it yields -- could cause malnutrition.
