“It’s a place of healing”: the growth of US food forests
A Guardian feature explores America’s biggest “food forest” just a short drive from the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson. There ...
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Quick fossil fuel wins in methane reduction to be implemented
A UN report has highlighted the extreme dangers of the greenhouse gas methane, as well as cost-effective measures to reduce ...
Organic General Mills farm “harms environment”
NPR reports on Gunsmoke Farms, covering 53 square miles just northwest of Pierre, South Dakota. The food company General Mills, ...
US launches largest summer food program in history
NBC says the Biden administration will announce the launch of a summer food program to feed more than 30 million ...
Cindy McCain tipped for UN food agencies post
Italian Insider reports that the widow of US Senator John McCain is under consideration for appointment by the Biden administration ...
Breakthrough study assesses water impact of US diets
Is your diet using more water than it should? If you’re in the States and eat a lot of beef, ...
The US food system creates hunger and debt
The Guardian has published this article by Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food... The Covid-19 ...
Sage against the machine: can robots taste?
This feature in The Economist says that in Silicon Valley, a biotech startup called Aromyx is trying to clone and ...
Ag chief consults with food CEOs on racial equity
Bloomberg reports that US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack spoke with top executives of a dozen major food and agriculture companies, ...
The carbon cost of Horizon milk determined
One glass of Horizon Organic whole milk a day for a year is the greenhouse gas equivalent of driving 632 ...
Dream big Food Systems Summit – we want a label rating everything that matters
Consumers want to know this stuff. Was primary forest destroyed to produce this product? Were indigenous people dispossessed or even...
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