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Can You Dig It? What The Problem Of Soil Insecurity Can Teach Us About Corporate Innovation (12/17/20)
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report (12/10/20)
Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth (12/4/20)
Hawaiian Seaweed Makes Cows 90% Less Gassy - And That’s Good For Climate Change (12/4/20)
Cornell tool connects farmers to Walmart climate goals (11/19/20)
- FAST-GHG – A Greenhouse Gas Calculator for Crops
Ceres2030 offers path to ending world hunger within decade (10/22/20)
(Cornell Univ.) Project to examine digital agriculture from many angles (09/29/20)
Grow your own: Urban farming flourishes in coronavirus lockdowns (04/16/20)
Carbon Farmers Work to Clean Up the World’s Mess (11/04/19)
Eat, Stomp, Poop: Could Better Ranching Help Save the Planet? (11/04/19)
Ag-to-energy farmland use is focus of new $2.4M grant (10/24/19)
Polluting Farmers Should Pay (08/26/19)
The GFCC Report Envisions High-Tech Farms of the Future as a Means of Survival (07/05/19)
‘Our Small Towns Are Toppling Like Dominoes’: Why We Should Cut Some Farmers a Check (06/24/19)
Heat, not drought, will drive lower crop yields, researchers say (06/06/19)
Barrett: Food security is ‘challenge of the century’ (04/26/19)
Midwesterners are being forced to face up to climate change (01/25/19)
Big picture look at climate change impact on U.S. agriculture: Midwest at risk (01/11/19)
North American Bird Maps Enter the Space Age (01/08/19)
The power of agricultural data (11/28/18)
Heat and Drought Could Threaten World Beer Supply (10/15/18)
Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, says report (12/11/17)
Colombian Coffee Growers Adapt to a Changing Climate (04/18/17)
Scientists Seek to Slice Bread’s Climate Impact (03/07/17)
Are We Headed Toward “Recurring Storms” of Global Food Insecurity? (02/27/17)
How big data is going to help feed nine billion people by 2050 (02/08/17)
Post early-adopters, drones need to prove their worth to industries (11/26/16)
Agriculture Drones Are Finally Cleared for Takeoff (10/20/16)
Climate change could drive 122m more people into extreme poverty by 2030 (10/17/16)
Farms a major source of air pollution, study finds (06/09/16)
Can Monsanto Save the Planet? (06/07/16)
How One Tiny Vermont College Is Taking On Big Agriculture (04/09/16)
GEO Announces Launch of Early Warning Crop Monitor: A New Tool to Fight Food Insecurity (03/18/16)
MIT’s Food Computer: The Future of Urban Agriculture? (02/12/16)
Cover Crops, a Farming Revolution With Deep Roots in the Past (02/07/16)
Mandatory Drone Registration Began Dec. 21, 2015 (01/05/16)
An idea with legs: Company that turns bugs into food a top finisher in competition (12/24/15)
A changing climate means a changing menu (12/22/15)
Agriculture Was Left Out Of The Paris Deal, But That Won’t Stop Countries From Taking It On (12/17/15)
Iowa’s Climate-Change Wisdom (11/21/15)
Agroecological Methods Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change (10/21/15)
Global warming contributed to Syria's 2011 uprising, scientists claim (09/07/15)
Failure to act on climate change means an even bigger refugee crisis (09/07/15)
World food supply at growing risk from severe weather (08/19/15)
Your Meat-Eating Habit Is Killing More Than Just Cows (08/17/15)
Corn War (08/16/15)
World’s largest vertical farm planned for Newark, New Jersey (08/16/15)
Airborne Sensor Can Track Photosynthesis Efficiency (08/14/15)
How the Midwest's Corn Farms Are Cooking the Planet (08/12/15)
It’s Time to Rethink America’s Corn System (08/12/15)
Meals Ready to Eat: Expedition 44 Crew Members Sample Leafy Greens Grown on Space Station (08/10/15)
Kenyan Women Are Quietly Revolutionizing Farming.. And The Government's Noticing (08/04/15)
Quest for climate-proof farms (07/21/15)
California and Arizona Miscount Water Supplies, Avoiding Realities of Scarcity (07/21/15)
Farmers eager for drones, but most can't legally fly them (07/05/15)
Mark Bittman Wants You to Know the Drought Isn’t Your Fault (07/02/15)
Congress Doesn't Think Agricultural Sustainability Has Anything to Do With Your Health (06/29/15)
Rise in CO2 Could Restrict Growing Days for Crops (06/21/15)
We'll All Eat Less Meat Soon—Like It or Not (06/14/15)
Drought Is Bearing Fruit for Washington Wineries (06/02/15)
Saving coffee from extinction (05/25/15)
Warmer Climate Could Aid Quebec's Wine Industry (05/18/15)
Farmers are watering your food with fracking chemicals (05/05/15)
The Promise of Precision Agriculture in Drought-Ridden California (05/01/15)
What If Everyone in the World Became a Vegetarian? (04/25/15)
There's a Place That's Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It's Not California. (04/20/15)
Is There a Future With Enough Food — But Without Big Ag? (04/11/15)
Big Beef Is In Big Trouble – What You Should Know (04/11/15)
Water, Technology, and Western Hubris (04/08/15)
As official data dries up, Zimbabwe's farmers gauge rainfall themselves - TRFN (03/17/15)
California Is Drilling for Water That Fell to Earth 20,000 Years Ago (03/13/15)
Why Vertical Farming Could Be On The Verge Of A Revolution -- And What's Keeping It Down (03/12/15)
Climate Change in the 2015 World Wide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community (03/05/15)
The monarch massacre: Nearly a billion butterflies have vanished (02/16/15)
From regional nuclear war to global food crisis (02/02/15)
Why Cow Farts and Belches Are Obama's Next Big Targets on Climate Change (01/21/15)
Humans Cross Another Danger Line for the Planet Puts what our Cluster is trying to do in the larger context. (01/17/15)
The Problem With Nuts "It takes a gallon of water to produce a single almond" (01/12/15)
Beef Industry Having a Cow over Potential USDA Recommendations (01/11/15)
Ten Ideas For How We Can Save the Planet, including eating less meat (01/11/15)
How Monsanto's Big Data Push Hurts Small Farms (12/03/14)
Eating less meat essential to curb climate change, says report (12/02/14)
Urban Farmers Trade Goods and Stories at ‘Crop Swaps’ (11/28/14)
United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming (11/26/14)
Gates foundation spends bulk of agriculture grants in rich countries (11/21/14)
How Climate Change Will End Wine As We Know It (11/21/14)
A Sustainable Solution for the Corn Belt (11/20/14)
Monsanto Is Using Big Data to Take Over the World (11/19/14)
Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time (11/10/14)
'Go solar': Queensland farmer sends giant climate change message to G20 organisers (11/06/14)
Agents of change (10/27/14) A report from recent Smithsonian symposium celebrating 50th anniversary of National Tropical Botanical Garden.
Climate Change Is Kicking the Insurance Industry's Butt (10/27/14) Article doesn't mention agricultural insurance, but the same issues apply.
Food giants Cargill and General Mills believe in climate change. Will they defend themselves from it? (10/26/14)
Coca Cola, Heinz And Other Major Food Companies Warn Climate Change Threatens Business (09/19/14)
How climate change is affecting the world’s biggest food company (09/05/14)
California's 100-year drought (09/04/14)
Bill Gates's epic project transforms farming in Africa (09/04/14)
Activist fuels his bike tour with dumpster food to call attention to Food Waste Fiascos (09/02/14) Focusing on the consumption rather than production chain.
Leaked IPCC draft report highlights risk of 'abrupt and irreversible change' as carbon emissions continue (08/28/14)
How Global Warming Will Affect Your Beer (08/02/14)
Robert Rubin: How ignoring climate change could sink the U.S. economy (07/24/14)
“National Climate Change Viewer” enables focus on future climate-driven changes for U.S. watersheds at local levels (06/03/14)
Food security model: Geospatial Agricultural Management and Crop Assessment Framework (06/03/14)
Safeguarding the future of food security (05/14/14)
A bigger rice bowl (5/10/14)
How Climate Change Is Making America’s Favorite Crop More Vulnerable (5/05/14)
Climate change 'already affecting food supply' – UN (3/30/14)
FACT SHEET: The President’s Climate Data Initiative: Empowering America’s Communities to Prepare for the Effects of Climate Change (3/19/14)
Climate Data Initiative Launches with Strong Public and Private Sector Commitments (3/19/14)
Climate change and coffee et al. (3/6/14)
President Obama’s New Budget Is Peppered With Efforts To Tackle Climate Change (3/5/14)
Obama Announces Aid for Drought-Stricken California (2/14/14)
Next Phase of Obama’s Executive Push: Climate Hubs (2/5/14)
- White House to announce "creation of seven regional 'climate hubs' to help farmers and rural communities respond to the risks of climate change, including drought, invasive pests, fires and floods."
New Predictions of Climate Change’s Impact on Agriculture (12/17/13)
Syria Today Is A Preview Of Veterans Day, 2030 (11/12/13)
Will Climate Change Mean the End of Coffee? (11/07/13)
Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies (11/02/13)
Happy Cows Help Save the Planet: Climate Smart Agriculture in Costa Rica (10-23-13)
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+*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/heatherwishartsmith/2020/12/07/can-you-dig-it-what-the-problem-of-soil-insecurity-can-teach-us-about-corporate-innovation/?sh=122209532916 Can You Dig It? What The Problem Of Soil Insecurity Can Teach Us About Corporate Innovation] (12/17/20)
 *[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/04/global-soils-underpin-life-but-future-looks-bleak-warns-un-report?utm_term=be84d7c9ce17acad82630ef4411c0cc3&utm_campaign=GreenLight&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=greenlight_email Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report] (12/10/20)
 *[https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/11/joel-salatin-chris-newman-farming-rotational-grazing-agriculture/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth] (12/4/20)