Category: Cover Story
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.