by Darvin Bentlage, opinion contributor — 09/04/18 They are either out of touch or don’t care. This summer, the House and Senate passed different versions of the 2018 farm bill. Neither address what’s happening here, in farm country and rural America. All the talk around the farm bill is about the differences in proposals for…

by Robert Sanders, Media relations | August 29, 2018 Low-tech ways of improving soil quality on farms and rangelands worldwide could pull significant amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and slow the pace of climate change, according to a new UC Berkeley study. The researchers found that well-established agricultural management practices such as planting…

Sept. 4, 2018 We’ve all heard the saying, “the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach.” The way to the heart of some of society’s most urgent problems, such as environmental destruction, racism, and income inequality, is also through food. From farm to fork, our food system has a significant impact on the…

by Annie Lowrey | Sept. 4, 2018 What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States. Imagine the farm that raised the chicken that produced the meat that sits in your sandwich: a few workers, thousands of birds, tens of thousands of pounds of white and dark…

Sept. 4, 2018 Diverse coalition launches campaign to transform business practices in the food service management industry The Community Coalition for Real Meals launched a nationwide campaign today urging the country’s three largest food service management companies – Aramark, Compass Group, and Sodexo – to reorient their business models away from a system of exclusive…

by Alec Wilkinson | Aug 23, 2018 For eons, the earth has had the same amount of water—no more, no less. What the ancient Romans used for crops and Nefertiti drank? It’s the same stuff we bathe with. Yet with more than seven billion people on the planet, experts now worry we’re running out of…