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As Trump Limits Guest Workers From Mexico Amid Coronavirus, Farmers Warn of Labor and Food Shortages
Agricultural workers work in Salinas, California.
'A Scourge of Biblical Proportions': UN Leaders Sound Alarm on East Africa Locust Crisis in Call for Global Response
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Locusts swarm from ground vegetation
The worst outbreak in decades has devastated crops across a region already enduring food insecurity, conflict, and climate impacts.
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'Victory for Farmers' as Jury Awards Grower $265 Million in Damages From Drift of Monsanto's Dicamba
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Brad Rose looks at rows of soybean plants that show signs of having been affected by Dicamba use on Aug 9, 2017
"This verdict is just the tip of the iceberg."
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Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
ground beetle on a plant
New papers detail severe threats facing insects, how their plight is...
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locust swarm
Climate-Crisis Fueled Locust Swarms Pose 'Unprecedented Threat to Food Security and Livelihoods' in East Africa
A large coalition of residents and public interest groups lobbied the state legislature in Des Moines, Iowa to demand support for a moratorium on building new, and expanding existing, factory farms—also known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The coalition of factory farm opponents also presented a petition to all 2020 presidential candidates calling on them to support the state moratorium as well as federal legislation to curtail factory farms. (Photo: Citizens for Community Improvement A
Ahead of Iowa Caucus, 2020 Candidates Urged to Back Moratorium on Factory Farms
parched crop field with pesticide sign
2020 Dems Called On to Follow Warren in Supporting 'No Big Ag Money Pledge'
A USDA inspector with pig carcasses.
'A Recipe for Disaster': Consumer Safety Groups Sue USDA Over Trump's Effort to Privatize Inspections for Pork Industry
monarch nectaring on a showy milkweed
'Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,' 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse
Lily and Jane
Denouncing Corporate Climate Profiteers, Comedy Icon Lily Tomlin Arrested at #FireDrillFriday Protest in DC
cover photo for WHO report
Top Global Scientists Call for 'Profound Food System Transformation' to Combat Extreme Malnutrition
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
'The Bold Approach We Need': New Booker Ag Bill Includes First-Ever National Factory Farm Moratorium
Meat sign
Move Over, Peak Oil. Scientists Say 'Peak Livestock' Must Arrive This Decade to Limit Global Heating
Bluefin Trevally and Leather Bass hunting together
New Report on Ocean Oxygen Loss Gives 'Ultimate Wake-Up Call' to Act on Climate
Iain Armitage and Jane Fonda
Dozens Arrested for Demanding Food Justice at Jane Fonda's Fire Drill Friday Protest in DC
Clostridioides difficile
As Superbugs Infect Millions and Kill Tens of Thousands Each Year, CDC Chief Warns Post-Antibiotic Era 'Already Here'

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Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins
Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution
Johnathan Hettinger
Jury Awards $265M in Damages in Dicamba Trial Against Monsanto, BASF
Tara Ritter
A False Solution: Why Carbon Markets Don't Work for Agriculture
Abigail Penny
Measuring Our Impact on the Planet
Carey Gillam
Carey Gillam
It’s Farmer v. Monsanto in Court Fight Over Dicamba Herbicide
Juliet Gellatley
Juliet Gellatley
Eating Animals Will Be the Death of Us
Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
After a Half Century of Corporate Dominance Over the Food Economy, Change Is Coming
Emily Folk
Emily Folk
Environmental Changes in our Food System
Ben Lilliston
Ben Lilliston
Cory Booker's Halt on Factory Farms Would Help the Climate
Liberty Vittert
Liberty Vittert
Statistic of the Decade: The Massive Deforestation of the Amazon
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