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Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? Jess Fanzo thinks it can, but it won’t be easy
24 May 2021

Jess Fanzo takes a close look at what’s wrong with global food systems and how it might be possible to change them.

Those farmer suicides …
7 December 2017

The Guardian piece on farmer suicides in the US raises more questions than it answers.

Rethinking the folk history of American agriculture Earl Butz is not the central villain of the piece
6 November 2017

Many of the things you might believe about the history of agriculture in America just aren’t true.

Antibiotics and agriculture Tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance at (one) source
9 October 2017

Antibiotic resistance is one consequence of feeding animals large amounts of antibiotics — about three times the amount given to people in the US. Why is it so hard to regulate the use of antibiotics in agriculture, and how else might we tackle the problem?

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