Farming boom threatens Biden’s climate and conservation ambitions

High prices for corn and soybeans drive farmers in the Great Plains to plow up vital grasslands at the expense of carbon storage and biodiversity.

Media Partner

Can fashion help small farmers preserve the Amazon?

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The New Republic

Can rock dust be a climate fix for agriculture?

Yale Environment 360

Has the American truffle finally broken through?

Smithsonian Magazine

USDA wants to make farms climate-friendly. Will it work?

The American Prospect

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Crop yields seen falling without climate action – report

By ,  September 22, 2021

New study adds to mounting evidence that farmworkers suffer higher rates of Covid-19

By ,  September 20, 2021

House panel asks meatpackers how many Covid-19 infections and deaths they had at their plants

By ,  September 15, 2021

Critics say a lack of diversity among nutrition professionals skews America’s understanding of dietary health

By ,  September 9, 2021

Q&A: Yolanda Soto says Covid-19 helped boost the market for imperfect produce

By ,  September 8, 2021

IUCN Congress dispatch: A paradigm shift for the food system

By ,  September 8, 2021

IUCN Congress: Crop wild relatives in peril; food giants’ regenerative-ag push

By ,  September 7, 2021

A bio-economy in the Amazon to prevent deforestation

September 7, 2021

World Conservation Congress takes aim at agriculture as key to addressing the biodiversity and climate crises

By ,  September 6, 2021

Can rock dust be a climate solution for agriculture?

September 2, 2021

U.S. hunger rate is lowest since start of pandemic

By ,  August 30, 2021

Today’s quick hits, Aug. 26, 2021

August 26, 2021

FERN’s Friday Feed: Plowing up America’s grasslands

Editor’s Desk — The climate conservation conundrum

Editor’s Desk — Staff writer Leah Douglas’s next move

FERN’s Covid-19 Mapping Project concludes

This farm relies on birds — not pesticides — to control pests

California Report

In the Amazon, farming the forest to save the forest

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National Geographic

The people who deliver your food are hungry

Mother Jones

Farmworkers face a life-and-death commute to Arizona’s lettuce fields

The Nation

Vilsack’s checkoff problem

The hog baron

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The Highlight by Vox

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

As halibut decline, Alaska Native fishers square off against industrial fleets

National Geographic
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