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US shoppers are seeing higher fruit and vegetable prices thanks to trade tensions, extreme weather and geopolitics, just to name a few reasons.
Tomatoes are at the heart of a long-brewing controversy, driven by increasing imports and decreasing domestic production.
Each year, a striking difference occurs in Australia when Shepard avocados briefly replace Hass at the shops. Here’s why.
Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.
We should be eating plenty of fresh produce every day. But throwing away another bunch of wilted herbs is demotivating. Thankfully, there are helpful tips to make produce last.
When people taking part in 22 pilot programs across the US got free fruits and vegetables, their health improved.
Functional foods − which should not be confused with ‘superfoods’ − possess specific components that contribute to better health.
The brief 2022 US ban on avocado imports from Mexico underscored the risks of being so heavily reliant on a product that comes from one region in one country.
Take a look at the first high-resolution map of the US food supply chain.
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Hospitality Management, Colorado State University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Latin American Environmental History, University of Iowa
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Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, Middle Tennessee State University
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Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
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Instructor of Epidemiology, UMass Chan Medical School
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Professor, School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences. Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of Wollongong
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Accredited Practising Dietitian, PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong
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Director of the Center for North American Studies, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Agricultural Economics and Blasingame Chair of Excellence, University of Tennessee
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Food Systems and Safety Program Team Director, Clemson University