By only focusing on how to keep food costs low, we risk ignoring the underlying causes of why people cannot afford food in the first place.
(Ashley Jean MacDonald)
Many people are experiencing the sticker shock of higher prices at grocery stores. But the amount we pay for food often does not reflect the real social, environmental and human costs of production.
A well in Afanasyeva village, Mykolaiv region, damaged by flooding after the Kakhovka Dam breach.
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Breaching the Kakhovka Dam and reservoir had all the hallmarks of a scorched-earth strategy. Two expert observers of the Russia-Ukraine war explain this event’s destructive long-term effects.
Rice is widely eaten in Nigeria.
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When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue at a high rate, breadbaskets of Europe and North America will see a 50% chance of a flash drought each year by the end of this century.
While mRNA vaccines are designed to last longer in the body than mRNA molecules typically would, they are also tested to ensure they are eliminated from livestock long before milking or slaughter.
Raising kids on a farm, as Kerissa Payne is doing, isn’t simple.
Photo courtesy of Kerissa and Charlie Payne
Access to affordable child care affects farm productivity, safety and ultimately the nation’s food supply. Farm families across the U.S. are struggling without it.
We know industrial farming needs to change. But regenerative agriculture may not be the transformation our global food system needs.
Small-scale farmers, organic producers and local markets receive a tiny fraction of farm bill funding.
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Cloud seeding – spraying materials into clouds to increase precipitation – has been around for nearly 80 years. But only recently have scientists been able to measure how effective it really is.
A farmer at the Roots Community Food Centre urban farm in northwestern Ontario harvests Gete-Okosomin squash in summer 2021.
(C. Levkoe)
Growing legumes could at once provide African farmers with fertilisers and food crops. However, researchers warn this is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
Agrivoltaic farming — growing crops in the protected shadows of solar panels — can help meet Canada’s food and energy needs.
(Alexis Pascaris, AgriSolar)
Canada can meet its carbon emission reduction targets, make food cheap again and open up a gigantic trade surplus with the U.S. by shading farm crops with solar panels.
Seedlings growing in a greenhouse in the Outaouais region of Québec. It’s time to think deeply about the future of our food system.
Photo by Bryan Dale
In light of the changes caused by the pandemic, it is clear that food autonomy as a frame of reference for reorganizing the Québec food system is not enough.
Spiders can be effective pest control agents.
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Spiders liquefy their prey in order to consume it, and this makes it challenging to determine what spiders eat. A new approach that uses DNA barcoding is helping researchers figure out spider diets.
Australia’s rarest butterfly, the Australian fritillary.
Garry Sankowsky