CALDWELL, Idaho — As a growing state, Idaho faces challenges to its agricultural sustainability but has a diverse, engaged community that wants to build and preserve it, the American Farmland Trust’s ...

A globalized food system has its obvious benefits staring at us from the grocery store shelves: fresh red strawberries no matter the season and flash-frozen seafood available thousands of miles from ...

While she was doing field work in Morocco, ethnobotanist Selena Ahmed realized that she needed to pursue a PhD in biology. In 2003, she was in the country completing her master’s thesis on the role of ...

The intersecting global challenges of climate change, food insecurity, and diet-related health issues are intricately linked to food systems and consumer choices. To catalyze significant dietary ...

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The global food system—from farm to fork—is facing dramatic changes. Food production has evolved from a predominantly local effort to meet the nutritional needs of small communities to one dominated ...

Many of us are familiar with grocery co-ops without truly understanding what they do — or how large of an impact they have on local food systems and the greater community. Buying from farmers is the ...

Autonomous technologies are rapidly transforming agri-food systems by improving efficiency, productivity, and environmental ...

Agri-food systems face escalating pressures from global change, including climate variability, water scarcity, water quality degradation, resource ...