Climate and geopolitical insults to the global food system have a way of intersecting and feeding into each other in hellish ways.

“Ukraine has what may be the richest soil in the world,” writes University of Georgia historian Scott Reynolds Nelson in his astonishing new book Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.

These test-tube cells need food to flourish, and researchers found that fetal bovine serum provided the special sauce.

Megafloods could take America’s most precious farmland—and Disneyland—with it.

Our food supply comes from an environmentally unsustainable system that is going to unravel

A new bill sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree would enlist growers to help slow global warming by using their soil to sponge up carbon dioxide.

“The current system is killing our soil, and farmers have hardly any incentives to do anything different.”

In late 2016, the Swedish company Oatly set up production in North America and began shopping its oat-derived “milk” to New York City’s latte cognoscenti. By the next autumn, oat milk had conquered the city’s “most esteemed coffee bars” at a “practically unheard of” rate, according to the coffee trade magazine Sprudge.