Remember that global food crisis everyone was talking about last summer? Well, Jayati Ghosh, a professor of economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, certainly does, and she brings up some interesting questions in her piece in last Friday’s The Guardian, ”Just a few months ago, we were being told that this is a period of stark, [...]

Check out this video from noted food columnist Mark Bittman. He calls attention to the lop-sided USDA food pyramid, the contribution of industrial food animal production to climate change, and gives a pretty good recap of how the American diet has changed in the last century.

The Washington Post reports that efforts by Eat the View  and TheWhoFarm to get food grown again on the White House lawn have made it into the top 30 ideas submitted to the change.org contest. The idea is one of over 7000 proposals submitted.
Ideas for Change in America is a nationwide competition to identify the best [...]

In yesterday’s Washington Post, Jennifer Huget reiterated some of the most common recommendations she hears from nutritionists-in an effort to make 2009 about healthy lifestyle changes, not necessarily the frustrating (and all-too-often unfulfilled) January resolutions to drop pounds or fit into a smaller dress size.
One of Huget’s recommendations hits close to home to us here [...]

Dr. Jane Lubchenco, an environmental scientist and marine ecologist actively engaged in teaching, research, synthesis and communication of scientific knowledge, was recently named by President-elect Barack Obama to head up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Dr. Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology 
Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University, presented [...]

Here’s an issue we don’t pay enough attention to: providing affordable health care for farmers. Steph Larsen, Rural Policy Organizer for the Center for Rural Affairs, discusses this in yesterday’s edition the The Ethicurean blog. “When we talk about local food, it means more than just proximity to a farm,” she writes. “We associate supporting ‘local [...]

An article in today’s Environmental Health News reports vegetable crops are absorbing antibiotics used in livestock production. Research conducted at the University of Minnesota showed levels of antibiotics commonly used in livestock production turning up in corn, lettuce and other plants. The transfer from livestock to crops takes place when manure, which is used as [...]

Farmer and Writer Wendell Berry and Land Institute President Wes Jackson share their views on soil loss and degradation, toxic pollution, dependency on fossil fuels in this op-ed published in the New York Times.