agroecology

A. Eyring

October 31, 2017

Scientists to Senate: Reject Sam Clovis for USDA Science Post

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

David’ R Montgomery showing the change in his garden’s soil as a result of his wife Anne’s gardening.

August 22, 2017

The Soil Solution: One Reason to be Optimistic About the Environment is Right Beneath Our Feet

UCS Science Network

erry Mennenga/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com/Alamy Live News

August 22, 2017

Is Sam Clovis a Scientist? A Racist? 9 Questions the Senate Should Ask

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

UCS

August 10, 2017

Floods, Droughts, and Soil: The Movie (or, Why I Destroyed a Small City for Page Views)

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

USDA-SARE/Edwin Remsberg

August 9, 2017

How Healthier Soils Help Farms and Communities Downstream Deal with Floods and Droughts

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer in a shaded coffee farm in Chiapas, Mexico. They use diverse shaded coffee as a model system to study ecological complexity and its implications for farm management and biodiversity conservation.

August 2, 2017

Agroecology to the Rescue: 7 Ways Ecologists are Working Toward Healthier Food Systems

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

May 30, 2017

We All Benefit from Foreign Nations’ Food Crop Diversity—But Do Our Politics Reflect This Interdependence?

UCS Science Network

United Soybean Board/Flickr

May 24, 2017

The Trump Budget Is an Affront to Farmers (and All of Us)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Source: University of Maine.

May 16, 2017

Three Reasons Congress Should Support a Budget Increase for Organic Agriculture Research

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

National Agroforestry Center

April 26, 2017

Arbor Day and Agroforestry: Green Infrastructure for Agriculture

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Jeff Vanuga/USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

April 19, 2017

Farmers to Trump: Don’t Walk Away from Climate Action

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

US Department of Agriculture/Flickr

March 22, 2017

Trump’s "Skinny" Budget Would Starve Farmers of Support, Leave Kids and Seniors Hungry

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Photo: US Agency for International Development/CC BY-NC 2.0, Flickr

March 16, 2017

Food Production Does NOT Need to Double by 2050 (And Other Required Reading for the Next USDA Secretary)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Green Cover Seed

March 3, 2017

What We Need Are Farms That Support Farmers, Consumers AND the Environment

Andrea Basche
Former contributor

Climate Listening Project

February 3, 2017

Climate Change, Resilience, and the Future of Food

UCS Science Network

Keefe Keeley, Savanna Institute

February 2, 2017

These Investments in Food and Farm Research Will Pay Us Back—Urban and Rural Alike

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

Jim Robinson, USDA-NRCS/CC BY 2.0, Flickr

November 14, 2016

Farming Carbon into Soils and Trees: A Climate-Smart Mid-Century Strategy for Agriculture

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

NRG Energy, Inc.

October 26, 2016

Breaking Down Barriers: Publishing Open Access Science for Sustainability

UCS Science Network

Moraine Park Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

Photo: Frank Schulenberg/CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia

October 17, 2016

Partnerships to Protect Fragile Mountain Ecosystems

UCS Science Network

A Honduran farmer digs irrigation channels in advance of maize planting.

Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Flickr

October 11, 2016

Making Agriculture “Climate-Smart” in Latin America and the Caribbean

UCS Science Network

Photo: USDA-NRCS

September 26, 2016

Soil Carbon Can't Fix Climate Change By Itself—But It Needs to Be Part of the Solution

Marcia DeLonge
Former Contributor

August 25, 2016

Did the Local Food Movement Trickle Down to Local Farmers?

UCS Science Network

Photo: Iowa State University/Lisa Schulte Moore

August 19, 2016

How US Farm Subsidies Make Taxpayers Pay Twice (And How We Could Change That)

Karen Perry Stillerman
Deputy Director

Lance Cheung, USDA/CC BY 2.0 (Flickr)

July 27, 2016

Book Review: Cowed’s Message is Less but Better Beef

Doug Boucher
Former Contributor