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Topic: food security

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Gardens don’t magically sprout benefits

Mitchell McLarnon - The Conversation
A little girl looking plants growing in raised beds in a backyard (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Are doomsday gardens here to stay?

Eric Schank
Mexican laborers cut broccoli stalks for Smith Farms' crew A as the harvest season gets underway at a Smith Farm's field near Fort Fairfield in central Aroostook County. Smith Farm's employ over 150 migrant workers to help in their harvest of both broccoli and potatos. (John Ewing/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

An extinction crisis is coming to dinner

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
The Impossible Whopper at Burger King (Getty/Michael Thomas)

Millennials embrace plant-based meat

Sheril Kirshenbaum, Douglas Buhler - The Conversation
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What the farm bill means for America

Tom Vilsack - The Conversation
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Feed the microbes!

Matthew Wallenstein - The Conversation
Loaves of pretzel bread.

Bread, bad for the environment

Lucy Goodchild Van Hilten - Alternet
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David R. Montgomery - The Conversation
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Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch.com
A drought-affected corn field is not the cause of food shortages

Famines in the 21st century?

Daniel Maxwell - The Conversation
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Mitch Hunter - The Conversation
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Food and forests at risk

Bobby Magill - Climate Central
In this Nov. 11, 2016 photo, fishermen throw their fishing rods from Chivo beach as the sun sets in Havana, Cuba. Cuba has been renowned for its fishing at least since the days of Ernest Hemingway, and foreigners by the thousands come each year to fish in waters largely protected by Cuba’s lack of development. () (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Fish is more than food

Yoshitaka Ota, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor - The Conversation
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Rachel Norman - The Conversation
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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Katie McDonough
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Katie McDonough
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