Development banks have spent over US$1 billion on factory farming in Africa, locking in high greenhouse gas emissions. Natural farming systems are a better choice.
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Considering how easily bird flu swept through chicken farms, it’s clear that domestication has downsides. Lessons from the past paired with modern genomic technology can help with farming insects.
Clearing huge tracts of land to plant one crop like maize has degraded land and put healthy food out of the reach of ordinary people. A new book has solutions.
Biotech firms are using climate goals opportunistically in an attempt to force through the deregulation of genetically modified crops.
We’ve become so good at using the Earth’s resources we’re endangering the systems we rely on.
Conventional agriculture offers farmers few choices about which crops to grow or how to raise them. A new approach uses computing to construct better strategies with lower environmental impacts.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
Saving seed is a way of protecting the world’s vegetable varieties, saving money, and increasingly, a political statement too.
The cleared land of Paraguay’s Chaco forest produces everyday products like charcoal and leather that are sold abroad to consumers who may never know the unsavory origins of their purchases.
Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity, but so is the backlash against honey bees.
Eating animals is natural and not evil in itself, but the torment of factory farming is a very good reason to go vegan.
Foraging and gathering food can play a huge role in feeding people.
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Honorary Research Associate, University of Oxford
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Sessional Instructor, Geography, Geology and Land Stewardship Program, Algoma University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
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Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Manchester
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Lecturer in Sustainability and International Relations, University of Technology Sydney
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Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Political Agroecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Professor in Biological Oceanography, University of Copenhagen
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Lecturer in Political Ecology and Environmental Justice, Brunel University of London
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Associate Professor in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Tropical Plants & Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii
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Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Professor and DSTI/NRF SARChI Bio-economy Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Ph.D. Student in Biology, Indiana University