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We’ve become so good at using the Earth’s resources we’re endangering the systems we rely on.
Conventional agriculture offers farmers few choices about which crops to grow or how to raise them. A new approach uses computing to construct better strategies with lower environmental impacts.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
Saving seed is a way of protecting the world’s vegetable varieties, saving money, and increasingly, a political statement too.
The cleared land of Paraguay’s Chaco forest produces everyday products like charcoal and leather that are sold abroad to consumers who may never know the unsavory origins of their purchases.
Urban beekeeping is growing in popularity, but so is the backlash against honey bees.
Eating animals is natural and not evil in itself, but the torment of factory farming is a very good reason to go vegan.
Foraging and gathering food can play a huge role in feeding people.
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Associate Professor in History of Modern Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development, Nottingham Trent University
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Assistant Professor, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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PHD Candidate, Western University
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PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Tropical Plants & Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii
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Professor in Biological Oceanography, University of Copenhagen
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Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Political Agroecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Lecturer in Political Ecology and Environmental Justice, Brunel University London
