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Bill Gates explains why fake meat is the future
Food scientists are creating healthful plant-based alternatives that taste just like eggs, chicken, and other sources of protein.
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10 Things to Know About Food on World Food Day
October 16 is World Food Day. It offers the opportunity to strengthen national and international solidarity in the fight to end hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
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Up to 100,000 cattle dead in South Dakota blizzard
A rare, early October blizzard has devastated the South Dakota rancher community, after as many as 100,000 head of cattle may have died following the October 3rd storm.
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Environmental and animal-rights advocates decry farm bill amendment
Amendment that overturns a California animal-rights law could have big consequences for GMO labeling.
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As China's demand for grain rises, its water tables drop
Reforming water usage will be key to feeding the world's population.
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A call for Canada to import fewer seeds
Farm experts worry that by importing seeds designed for other climates, Canada may lose the security represented by heritage varieties.
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Are perennial plants the crops of the future?
Mark Bittman's lasted coloum explores the potential for Perennial polysystems, or in other words, crops that don't need to be planted every year.
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Monsanto's agrochemicals are poisoning Argentines, but Monsanto blames...
Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko from The Associated Press have a blockbuster piece of reporting on the dozens of ways Monsanto's chemical fertilizers and pesticides are poisoning the people of...
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China and the Soybean Challenge
As China’s appetite for meat, milk, and eggs has soared, so too has its use of soybean meal. And since nearly half the world’s pigs are in China, the lion’s share of soy use is in pig feed.
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Oregon activists push for food instead of grass from farmers
If the proverbial muck ever does hit the fan, we'll need beans and grains in large amounts. A project in Oregon is convincing farmers to grow them.
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Moving Up the Food Chain
In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the...
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From conventional orchard to permaculture fruit forest
Stefan Sobkowiak is converting a 12-acre commercial orchard into a diverse, self-sustaining food forest. A new film aims to document how.
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Gotham Greens: A commercial-scale rooftop hydroponic greenhouse in New York City
City rooftops are definitely an underused resource, and I'm not just talking about growing food.
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Cannabis in your car doors, but not to smuggle it
One more use for the versatile plant that is starting to get some traction in the US...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is investor in synthetic beef venture
It turns out that one of the investors behind this lab-grown meat is Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google. In the video below he explains why he decided that this project was worth putting his...
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Neonicotinoids are the new DDT
Neonicotinoid pesticides are used everywhere. Though said to be safe, scientists now know they are a primary culprit in killing off bees and other pollinators.
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Grain Yields Starting to Plateau
Some of the factors influencing grain yields are natural, while others are of human origin.
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Crops can be made self-fertilizing with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, making...
Nitrogen fixation is the process by which nitrogen is converted to ammonia, a compound necessary for plants to grow. But only a few plants like legumes can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere.
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Breaking the seed bank to feed the future
Can science use the genes engineered by nature instead of genetic engineering in the face of a pending food crisis?
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Why did 1,200 chickens cross the country? To retire!
Last week, 1,200 rescued chickens were flown from California to New York by an animal rescue group that saved the hens from being killed.
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