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Breeding a Thriving Regional Grain Economy
Dr. Stephen Jones, a professor of Crop and Soil Science and the director of The Bread Lab at Washington State University is a wheat breeder who never dreamed he’d be producing wheat varieties bearing “hints of chocolate” or “spicy overtones.” And..
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Uncovering Corruption in Agribusiness with Investigative Journalist Carey Gillam
What began for investigative journalist Carey Gillam as “just an assignment” on food and agriculture grew to be not only her passion, but the focus of her reporting for the last twenty years. Carey’s intimate knowledge of food and farming in the..
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Eric Lee-Mäder on the Plight of the Pollinators
This week on Rootstock Radio host Theresa Marquez talks to Eric Lee-Mäder, co-director of the Pollinator Program at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Eric is the lead author of several books, including the best-selling Attracting..
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CAFOs, Fracking and GMOs with Michele Merkel
This week on Rootstock Radio host Theresa Marquez speaks with Michele Merkel, co-director of Food and Water Justice, the legal arm of Food and Water Watch. Prior to her work at Food and Water Justice, Michele co-founded the Environmental Integrity..
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The Love, and Business, of Agriculture
Today on Rootstock Radio, we speak to Hal Hamilton, founder and co-director of the Sustainable Food Lab. Hal is also a founder of the Academy for Systemic Change and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has been a German..
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GMOs, Pesticides and Bees with Dr. Charles Benbrook
Bees, Dr. Benbrook explains today, are just one of many populations being disastrously affected by the pesticides that go hand-in-hand with the use of GMO crops.