Could the food system face a new Covid-19 wave?

Media Partner

As California wildfires rage, the harvest goes on

KALW

After a farmworker in rural Texas died of complications from Covid-19, his family and federal investigators want answers

Texas Observer

At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on race

Mother Jones

How do climate change, migration and a deadly sheep disease alter our understanding of pandemics?

Ensia

Daily Reporting and Analysis on Food, Agriculture and the Environment

Survey: 40 percent of U.S. children live in households that struggle to afford enough food

By ,  October 21, 2020

Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs was rising before pandemic

By ,  October 20, 2020

Book: Climate change and the looming crisis in U.S. food production

By ,  October 19, 2020

School meal programs have lost more than $483 million so far during the pandemic

By ,  October 15, 2020

Pilgrim’s to pay $110.5 million fine in U.S. price-fixing investigation

By ,  October 14, 2020

Advocates fear canceling Farm Labor Survey is first step in gutting guest farmworker protections

By ,  October 12, 2020

Nitrate-tainted drinking water plagues California farmworker towns, study shows

By ,  October 7, 2020

How high could farm subsidies go? $40 billion this year.

By ,  October 5, 2020

Advocates push to make WIC waivers permanent

By ,  October 1, 2020

Opinion: How land — and the way we use it — is at the center of the climate crisis

By ,  September 30, 2020

When the West Coast wildfires are out, can mushrooms help with the cleanup?

By ,  September 27, 2020

Study: U.S. commodity farmers imperil biodiversity for ever-lower yields

By ,  September 24, 2020

FERN’s Friday Feed: How hops rescued American beer

Editor’s Desk — Why a farmworker perished from Covid-19

FERN’s Friday Feed: A pandemic who-done-it

Editor’s Desk — FERN’s biodiversity initiative

Can grazing save endangered grasslands?

The Guardian

Pandemic and protest in a meatpacking town

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Latino USA

Mapping Covid-19 outbreaks in the food system

As Covid-19 rises, Alaskans crowd rivers to stock up on wild salmon

As Covid-19 cases spike, an unprecedented alliance emerges to protect California farmworkers

Univision

FERN’s commitment to equity and diversity

Covid-19 shows no sign of slowing among food-system workers

The pandemic is just the latest threat faced by refugee food workers in Texas

Texas Observer
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