Publication archives

Feb 18, 2013

Climate change meets resilience: Real farmers solving real climate problems with sustainable solutions

by
Andrew Ranallo
Update: All five videos are now available at the following links: 
Feb 13, 2013

The tip of the food justice iceberg

by
Jim Harkness
In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama called for the federal minimum wage to be raised to $9 an hour and linked hereafter to the cost of living, so that it will rise along with inflation.
Feb 13, 2013

State of the Union: Green energy and rural

by
Jim Kleinschmit
Rural resistance has helped slow the development of renewable energy. It doesn't have to be that way. For the President's green-energy plans to succeed, he needs to reach out to the rural leaders who are ready to act on climate change.
Feb 12, 2013

EU takes a crucial step toward market regulation

by
Dr. Steve Suppan
After the disastrous financial collapse in 2008, the commodity  and  financial market regulatory reform process on both sides of the Atlantic has been a series of promising but halting steps, all too often two steps forward and one step back.
Feb 12, 2013

Food crisis update: Main drivers of price volatility still not addressed

Last year international food markets suffered their third price spike in five years. The trigger was a terrible drought in the United States—a major agricultural producer and exporter. An unstable climate met low levels of international grain reserves, while U.S. ethanol gobbled up maize supplies.
Feb 8, 2013

Animal antibiotic use continues upwards, FDA keeps blinders on

With legislation in 2008, Congress for the first time asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to collect and report to the public the overall sales of antibiotics used in food animals. February 6 marked the release of a third year’s worth of data.
Feb 8, 2013

Five questions for Frederick Kaufman, author of Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food

by
Ben Lilliston
In 2010, journalist Frederick Kaufman wrote in Harper’s Magazine about how Wall Street speculators wreaked havoc with wheat markets and, in turn, helped drive the 2008-09 food price crisis.
Feb 7, 2013

Childcare: Fertile ground for healthy young eaters

by
JoAnne Berkenkamp
Erin McKee VanSlooten
When a four year old in our project was asked recently where carrots come from, he pretty well nailed it: “The ground, and farmers water them and pick them and give them to people and bunnies too, and stores.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves. 
Childcare: Fertile ground for healthy young eaters