Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone..

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity..

One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat food that's bad for them, mo….

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What susta….

A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are we g….

We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low wages. What we need….

Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connect….

There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can l….

A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half mil….

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology..

We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and particularly if you factor in….

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans were food insecure. That mean….

The one thing that everyone knows about America is people will say, I know my rights. One of those rights is the right to organize. When workers do g….

I definitely think the price of food is going up. We need to figure out ways to manage that in a sustainable way. We have to figure out ways of incre….

Yet if you go to the supermarket and look at food that's produced through industrial agriculture, look at what's happened to the prices. Have they be….

Right now you're seeing more and more families reporting that they are skipping meals. They're having to give up meat. Mothers are foregoing food so ….

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food..

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That ….

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity..

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty..

I think we do need to worry about a food shortage, but we also need to worry about the quality of the food. A lot of the stuff that's marketed to us ….