Puerto Rico & The Quest For Sustainability, Part 1
Food security threatens many regions around the world. Puerto Rico’s decades of dependence on outside food imports has impacted the health and resilience of this island commonwealth.
agroecology
Industrial Agricultural Needs To Be Replaced By Agroecology — Soon
Farming with nature rather than against it seems like common sense, but industrial agriculture has a hard hold on global food production. It’s time to break the systems that perpetuate harmful growing practices.
6 Ways the Agricultural Resilience Act Equips Farmers to Fight the Climate Crisis with Science
Last month, Representative Chellie Pingree (D ME-1) introduced a bold and comprehensive policy proposal — the Agricultural Resilience Act (ARA, H.R.5861) — to set farmers up with the tools they need to tackle the climate crisis.
How To Feed 530 Million Europeans With Sustainable Food By 2050
On the bright side, the European food system provides 4.2 million jobs in Europe, feeds more than 500 million Europeans, and its greenhouse gases emissions have decreased 20% since 1990. But the social and environmental impacts of the European food system is alarming. Diet-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease are growing at an alarming rate.
