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Fertilizers and Pesticides - agriculture, farming, science
Brazil - Agriculture and economic development
Meat shortage? - Food and supply chains during COVID19 Coronavirus
a collection of articles and videos about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #2. Zero Hunger
A collection of articles and videos about issues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil - Property Rights, Inequality, Land Rights, Agriculture and Development issues
A collection of articles and videos looking at EU regulations and food and agriculture
A collection of articles and videos looking at EU regulations and food and agriculture
A collection of articles and videos looking at food and agriculture
Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Middle East - Agriculture and Water Innovation
articles and videos about food in Spain
France - culture, food and wine
a collection of articles and videos to help travelers to better understand Italy
articles about Truffles - rare, edible mushrooms
a collection of articles and videos about planting trees, Deforestation and Global Warming, Climate Change
a collection of articles and videos about Deforestation and Global Warming, Climate Change
a collection of articles about Agriculture Technology in Latin America
CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation - agriculture, plants and food production
Global Warming, Carbon and Farming, Agriculture
a collection of articles about Farming - Beef, Chicken, Agriculture, Business and Science
a collection of articles about Vertical Farming - Agriculture, Gardens and Gardening
Climate Change - impact on economy, politics, development - history
Aquaculture - Fish Farming Seafood - Agriculture, Business and Science
A collection of articles about Bees - and Agriculture, Farming
Impact on the future of work from Robotics and Automation, with a focus on food
a collection of articles about Mangoes - Fruit, Agriculture, Business and Science
a collection of articles and videos about GMO foods - the debate and science of genetically modified foods
a collection of articles about Costco - retail, wholesale business and chicken farming, agriculture
A collection of articles about Nuts - agriculture, farming
A collection of articles about Cherry Farming - Agriculture and cherries

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Article

Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods - The New York Times

Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’. Burger King is introducing a Whopper made with a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods. Th... (2019)


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Even With a Housing Oversupply, Quebec City Is Coming For Its Farmland

As agricultural areas are snatched up and transformed into new housing developments, one farmer keeps fighting. (2019)


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What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.? - The New York Times

The European Union prohibits many food additives and various drugs that are widely used in American foods. (2018)


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Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? We’ll Have To, a New Study Finds - The New York Times

To make meaningful progress on climate change, cows and wheat fields will have to become radically more efficient. (2018)


Article

Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet. Instead It Unleashed a Catastrophe - New York Times

A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissi... (2018)


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Oaxaca’s Potent Secret, Mezcal Is Born of Time, Tradition and a Slow-Growing Plant - The New York Times

This cousin of tequila is handcrafted by farmers in small batches from the maguey plant, which takes 7 to 30 years to reach maturity. (2018)


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Buying organic veggies at the supermarket is a waste of money — Quartz

Organic carrots: not worth your whole paycheck. (2018)


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Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet (2018)


Article

The Super Bowl of Beekeeping - The New York Times

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) wh... (2018)


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Tough times for Embrapa, a jewel of Brazilian innovation - The Economist

AN HOUR’S drive from Brasília, Brazil’s capital, humped zebu cattle take refuge from the heat of the cerrado (tropical savannah) under neat rows of... (2018)


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How Could Indonesia Make Sure Subsidized Rice Was Really Getting To Poor People? - NPR

Indonesia had a program to provide subsidized rice to the poor. But thousands of kilos didn't make it to the recipients. (2018)


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Food-Living Green - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences - Extension- University of Florida

Living Green focuses on how communities incorporate environmental concerns into their homes, neighborhoods, and businesses to help conserve natural... (2018)


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Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner | Bloomberg

The future of food looks like lots of lobsters, Polish chardonnay and California coffee. (2018)


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The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting | Columbia University

Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farmi... (2018)


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How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution | Science | Smithsonian

Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color... (2018)


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On the Nature of Wine -- And the Cultural Contradictions of Artisanal Capitalism

"science, technology, and infrastructure have provided the foundation upon which the art of modern winemaking relies. This includes greater underst... (2018)


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Why wasting food is bad for the planet - The Economist explains

LEAVING unwanted broccoli on your plate is not just bad manners. It is also poor treatment of the planet. Perhaps a third of the world’s food—1.3 b... (2018)


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Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? - The New York Times

Plants can be frozen in place with the same anesthetics used on you during surgery. It suggests they may be less different from animals than is oft... (2018)


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In the Middle Ages, The Upper Class Went Nuts for Almond Milk - Gastro Obscura

Today's craze is a second act; medieval chefs were equally enamored. " IN RECENT YEARS, ALMOND MILK has been touted as the future of non-dairy d... (2017)


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Netherlands fishmongers accuse herring-tasters of erring - Smell them and weep

HERRING (genus Clupea, with four species found in the Baltic and North Seas) have been vital to northern Europe’s economy since the Middle Ages, wh... (2017)


Article

Not so espresso - Italian coffee firms

CAFÉ culture may be quintessentially Italian, but it took an American firm to make it global. Howard Schultz says visiting Milan and its cafés in t... (2017)


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Why France is facing a butter squeeze - The Economist explains

BARE shelves in food shops have been a sadly common sight in Zimbabwe or Venezuela, but are surely unimaginable in wealthy, well-run France? Yet in... (2017)


Article

Anthony Bourdain Talks Tough About Food Waste

New York Times, Film Review, 2017: "The TV traveler and the chef Danny Bowien spoke about their new anti-waste film Thursday for Times Talks. “Go ... (2017)


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The meat industry. The world’s biggest food company plans to beef up in America

JBS, Brazil’s meat-packing giant, wants to expand. Will its critics let it? | Business (2025)


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To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it

The fight against deforestation is going better. But it needs cash, cops—and a better property register | The Americas (2023)


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Brazil’s hinterland now resembles Texas

The new Brazil. It is a land of “roughs”, not playboys. The hinterland is getting political and cultural clout | The Americas (2023)


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Asian farming: India’s journey from agricultural basket case to breadbasket

Technology and market forces are overcoming the heavy hand of the state | Finance & economics. Indian agriculture has begun a subtle revolution; in... (2023)


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A spat over farming bodes ill for Ukraine’s future European prospects | The Economist

Have the limits of the EU’s support for its neighbour been reached? | Europe (2023)


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MST in Brazil: If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It - The New York Times

The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement... (2023)


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Why an agricultural boom does not help rural America | The Economist

Farms are ever more profitable, but employ fewer workers | United States (2022)


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Millions protest genetically modified food - 2013 - CNN

Jake Tapper reports on the controversy that surrounds GMOs and one of the companies that makes them. For more CNN videos, visit our site ... (2019)


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Europe's new approach to GMOs

Long divided over GMOs - are they a threat or an opportunity? - the EU has now found a way forward. (2019)


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Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://w... (2019)


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What's wrong with our food system | Birke Baehr | TEDxNext Generation Asheville

Birke Baehr -"what's Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference. Video by: Twin Path Productions www.... (2019)


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Climate 101: Deforestation | National Geographic

Forests cover about 30% of the planet, but deforestation is clearing these essential habitats on a massive scale. What is deforestation? Find out t... (2019)


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Tree to Bar || How to Make Chocolate Every Step

In this video I show every step to making dark chocolate from cacao tree to chocolate bar. There is roughly 7 step to making chocolate so sit back ... (2018)


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Made in Israel: Agriculture

The Official 700 Club Published on Sep 3, 2013 Gordon Robertson looks at Israel's remarkable agricultural innovation, with special focus on the... (2018)


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Food Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Jul 19, 2015 Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of fo... (2018)


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Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

This is the history of Monsanto’s herbicides… ▀▀▀ 0:00 An Unusual Enemy 5:18 Monsanto’s Secret Poison Problem 11:17 Vietnam and Agent Ora... (2025)


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How China’s $285M Export Hub in Brazil Will Cost U.S. Billions | WSJ Center Point

China’s new $285 million export terminal in Brazil, being built outside of São Paolo by Chinese state agricultural giant Cofco, threatens billions ... (2025)


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Cocoa farming and Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses chocolate, cocoa farming, and, of course, some facts that will make Halloween a little weird.Connect with Last Week Tonight o... (2023)


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How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited

How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited. Visit the SPAN website to get a quote and start the process of having SPAN in y... (2023)


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Egypt plans to green its desert

Egypt plans to green its desert Egypt is growing at two million people a year. Urban infrastructures can'... (2023)


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Whatever Happened to the Bee Apocalypse?

Do you remember the headlines screaming that the bees ... (2022)


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The dark history of bananas - John Soluri

Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America. --In December 19... (2021)


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Transition to Agriculture | Big History Project

Craig Benjamin explains how agriculture drove change and why humans took the risk of abandoning foraging. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.co... (2020)


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Why Was Agriculture So Important? | Big History Project

The invention of agriculture is not just a matter of tastier food. It unlocked powerful forces that transformed history. Website: https://www.bighi... (2020)


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Threshold 7: Agriculture | Big History Project

When humans began farming, new, more complex ways of living were possible. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/portal Facebook: https://www.... (2020)


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The New Tropic - A not-so-sweet history of Florida's algae crisis | Facebook

Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (2018)


Podcast

On Beeing - 99% Invisible

Driving between Oakland and Los Angeles in February offers glimpses of a spectacular scene — neat, symmetrical rows of trees covered with pink and ... (2019)


Podcast

The Vault -Seed food bank - 99% Invisible

Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)


Book

Energy and Civilization | The MIT Press

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–d... (2020)


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