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  • Posted on March 23, 2010
    Fixing Our Food: Give Processed Foods a Break

    Don’t believe the reputation: Processing extends the life, safety and quality of foods, and processed foods deserve a place on our shelves.

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    Fixing Our Food: Reduce Food Waste

    We could be doing better in the battle against hunger if we made fuller use of the food we grow.

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    Fixing Our Food: Go Vertical

    High-rise greenhouses and other indoor farming systems can get more food into cities that need it the most.

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    Fixing Our Food: Teach More People to Farm

    Our food production depends on a shrinking number of farmers. Who will succeed them?

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    Fixing Our Food: Preserve Our Farmland

    442 million acres of American soil grew crops in 2002, the lowest amount of land in farming since World War II.

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    Fixing Our Food: Diversify Crops Regionally

    Concentrating agricultural production is becoming expensive and risky. We need a broader array of foods grown closer to home.

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    Fixing Our Food: Reform Crop Subsidies

    Federal agricultural programs are beginning to reward farmers for more than just yield, but there’s still more room to incentivize best practices.

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    Fixing Our Food: Start a New Green Revolution

    We don’t just need to grow more food. We need to grow it better.

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    Fixing Our Food

    Safe food. Healthy food. Enough food. Can we secure the bounty we take for granted for future generations? A team of CALS experts say that we can meet the world’s food challenges––and here are their best ideas for how to do it.

  • Posted on November 4, 2009
    The Evolution is On

    A beetle’s newfound abilities remind us that life is always adapting to overcome our best strategies. How the eternal struggle for survival changes the way we farm.

  • Posted on July 13, 2009
    The Drugs Start Here

    With the world’s supply of antibiotics growing old and ineffective, academic researchers are leading the way in developing the next generation of microbe fighters.

  • Posted on March 2, 2009
    To Kill a Wolf

    As brushes with wolves rise, wildlife experts weigh whether the best way to preserve wolves could include hunting them.