Sustainability
Rice: The New Frontier of Sustainable Ag
Co-founder and CEO of Lotus Foods, Ken Lee, talks about the winding journey that brought him and his partner, Carol, to the creation of Lotus Foods and why he says that “rice is the best thing we could have stumbled on.”
Sustainability
Author Kristin Ohlson & How the Soil Will Save Us
Kristin Ohlson is an independent journalist and author of the book The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet. A prolific writer, her articles have been published all over the place. Currently..
Sustainability
What Farmers and Fishermen Have in Common
Margaret Krome is the public policy program director for Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI). Over many years, she has collaborated to create and sustain funding for a number of state initiatives supporting environmentally sound..
Sustainability
We Cannot Feed the World with Industrial Agriculture
Debbie Barker is a writer, consultant and activist who has served as international director for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG). A prolific author and speaker, in 2011 she..
Sustainability
We Can Reverse Climate Change (And We Must Start Now)
Nancy Hirshberg is founder and Chief Catalyst at the sustainability consulting firm Hirshberg Strategic, and co-founder of Climate Collaborative, an organization working to leverage the power of the natural products industry to reverse climate..
Sustainability
What Industrial Agriculture Can't Accomplish
Dr. John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agriculture and Applied Economics at the University of Missouri, grew up on a small dairy farm in the southwestern part of Missouri. John is the author of 6 books and the 2014 regional report called “Family..