While most American farmers tend to see themselves as combating global famine through production, some environmental scientists and researchers are challenging this assumption, arguing that American-style farm production is unsustainable,…
Farmers and farm advocacy organizations are ramping up the pressure on Senators and Representatives, portraying a failure to pass a new farm bill as a threat to America’s national security.…
With the holiday season ending (a season typically marked by massive food waste), environmental advocacy groups are beginning a new campaign to alert American consumers to the danger of wasting…
The Cuban government’s recent experiment with free market agriculture has proven to be a major bust. The failure of Cuba’s free market reform may set back economic and political liberalization…
The 2012 Farm Bill, in addition to setting broad agricultural policy for the next five years, will address global hunger and will organize a unified federal response to international food…
British farmers are continuing their objections to proposed European Union agricultural policies tying direct payment farm subsidies to compliance with strengthened environmental regulations. These polices, farmers say, will hurt the…
The British secretary of state for the environment, food, and rural affairs, Caroline Spelman, has promised to make sustainable agriculture her top priority at the upcoming Rio+20 Conference. The Rio+20,…
Hoping to address chronic food insecurity, potential threats of environmental degradation, and long-term poverty and economic stagnation, United Nations officials recommended organic agriculture as a major solution to several African…
Howard Buffett, son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, recently announced the creation of a new philanthropic initiative called Invest an Acre. Raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett has had a lifelong…
Recent fears over food security and the growing global population are causing friction within the scientific community as researchers, policy makers, and farmers argue the merits of increased agricultural chemical…