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The Planet Will House 10 Billion People, and We Can Feed Them All
Our population is going to grow by 3 billion people in the next century. But if we play our cards right, none of them will go hungry.
Lifestyle
2010: The Summer of Raw Food Raids
At 7 a.m. on June 30, 20 agents raided a Ventura County farmhouse and confiscated the family's computer. That same morning, the FDA and the FBI...
Business
Why Farmers Are Embracing Social Media: the #AgChat Story
Farmers are fighting rural isolation—and cow conundrums—with social media to make better food, and food policy.
Lifestyle
Superb Idea: Supermarket Vegetable Packaging Helps You Grow Your Own
British art student Ben Huttly's vegetable packaging is 100 percent biodegradable; what's more, the labels are embedded with seeds.
News
Infographic: The Agricultural Multiplier Effect
See how investing in farming leads to larger-reaching, multiplied benefits for the farmer's entire community.
Education
Farming the Desert
Earlier this spring, a group of students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business took a trip through California and Nevada. Their mission:...
Culture
How Feather Extensions Are Changing the Way Chickens Live (and Die)
Whether it’s Steven Tyler, Miley Cyrus, or sorority girls all across the country, demand for long "saddle feathers" is way, way up.
Lifestyle
Using Cows to Pull Bangladeshi Farmers out of Poverty
Most rural Bangladeshis own an incredibly valuable asset; they just need to learn how to monetize it. More than 115 million Bangladeshis live in...
Lifestyle
Feeding the Tiny Humans of the Future: Amsterdam's Disproportionate Restaurant
A new restaurant explores the way genetically-engineered one-and-a-half foot tall humans might cook, eat, and farm.
Lifestyle
Agri-porn! A Video Tour of Stone Barns Farm
A video tour of the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, an 80-acre farm, educational center, and restaurant in Pocantico Hills, New York.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: The Trouble with Land-Grant Universities
150 years ago, the government founded land-grant universities to keep agriculture alive in the U.S. What should they be teaching today?
Environment
Farmers Are Working Toward a Brighter Future for Organic Vegetables
Many organic farmers don't have the option of using exclusively organic seed. Organic Seed Growers Conference attendees want to fix that.
Culture
GOOD Books: Factory Foods Exposed
For this week's GOOD Books, we're looking straight into the convoluted American food industry.
Lifestyle
Transparency: Simple Innovations Help African Farmers Thrive
Inexpensive, innovative tools can help small farmers in Africa fight global hunger.
Design
How to Start a Crop Mob
There’s a lot up for debate in the realm of agriculture these days, but there’s one thing no one can dispute: Farming is hard, often lonely work....
Lifestyle
Big Egg Deal Gives America's Crowded Chickens More Space to Roam
A new agreement with egg farmers could usher in the first federal law addressing the treatment of farm animals. This is nothing to squawk at.
Lifestyle
Video: In Detroit, Where Trance Meets Urban Farming
Disaster tourists have long been flocking to Detroit's decayed infrastructure in search of ruin porn. Is all this attention a good thing?
Lifestyle
Food Studies: Meet Claire, Who Combines Her MFA in Creative Writing with a Minor in Sustainable Agriculture
GOOD's sixth Food Studies blogger is Claire, who's reporting on propane-powered weed torches and baby-plant spaceships from snowy Minnesota.
