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How reduced biodiversity leads to the slow loss of foods we love
Last week, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization released a landmark report, stating, “There is a real risk of the plant and animal species that provide our food, fuel and fibre (as...
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World Health Organization drops its high-profile sponsorship of the...
Editor’s note: Several weeks after this article was published, Simen Sletsjøe, a spokesman for the EAT-Lancet Commission, contacted The New Food Economy to contest the British Medical Journal’s report...
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From potatoes to coffee, plant breeders are changing crops to adapt to an...
We tend to view the effects of climate change through the lens of the worst and most dramatic disasters, from hurricanes and floods to forest fires. But farmers have a more mundane fear: that as...
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Thinly sliced: New businesses are popping up for the “sober curious” crowd
This is the web version of a list we publish twice-weekly in our newsletter. It comprises the most noteworthy food stories of the moment, selected by our editors. Get it first here. “Shaken, not...
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Climate change threatens food security globally, urgent UN report shows
On Thursday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—a global group of scientists convened by the United Nations to study our shifting climate—released a much-anticipated special report on...
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Trump administration further weakens the Endangered Species Act
New rules announced by the Trump administration Monday will significantly erode protections given to vulnerable plants and animals through the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The changes, which both...
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Supermarket chain forced to spend more than $4 million on ozone-depleting...
You may be surprised to learn that a recent multimillion-dollar settlement between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Southeastern Grocers Inc. (parent company of Winn Dixie, Bi-Lo, and several other...
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The “eat less meat” movement is growing. Does it distort science?
As if the beef industry didn’t already have a bad rap, Brazil’s farmers have reportedly set the Amazon on fire to create more grazing land for the country’s booming beef industry. They are part of a...
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Thinly sliced: How climate change threatens key ingredients in beer
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Climate change will make seafood scarcer and more dangerous. It’ll also...
The international panel of experts studying the global impact of climate change released a sobering report on Wednesday: The oceans, which have long acted as buffers against the worst consequences of...
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Thinly sliced: How warming waters in Bristol Bay are threatening sockeye...
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In California, farmers are facing sunburned apples and frozen greens
Mike Cirone didn’t prune his apple trees as much as he usually does, this year, because an extended heat spell made him worried about sun damage on the fruit. There was “leaf scorching” on the...
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Climate change is devastating New England fishing economies
For decades, climate change has wreaked havoc on New England’s historic fishing communities. Now we know precisely how much. A new study from the University of Delaware shows that erratic changes in...
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Thinly sliced: Leading ag groups are concerned with climate change … but...
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In Memoriam: Sustainable Seafood, 1992-2019
After decades of flourishing as the North Star for fisheries managers, activist consumers, and, even corporate America, sustainable seafood fell victim to climate change in the Gulf of Alaska. There,...
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Will rice survive climate change?
Mark Isbell is a commodity rice farmer in England, Arkansas whose 3,000-acre Isbell Farms supplies large buyers like Knorr, a Unilever company. The Isbell family has grown rice for more than a century;...
View ArticleClimate change will make seafood scarcer and more dangerous. It’ll also...
The international panel of experts studying the global impact of climate change released a sobering report on Wednesday: The oceans, which have long acted as buffers against the worst consequences of...
View ArticleThinly sliced: How warming waters in Bristol Bay are threatening sockeye...
This is the web version of a list we publish twice-weekly in our newsletter. It comprises the most noteworthy food stories of the moment, selected by our editors. Get it first here. Bristol Bay blues....
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In California, farmers are facing sunburned apples and frozen greens
Mike Cirone didn’t prune his apple trees as much as he usually does, this year, because an extended heat spell made him worried about sun damage on the fruit. There was “leaf scorching” on the...
View ArticleClimate change is devastating New England fishing economies
For decades, climate change has wreaked havoc on New England’s historic fishing communities. Now we know precisely how much. A new study from the University of Delaware shows that erratic changes in...
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