In the last three years, advocates fought against proposed pesticide immunity bills in 15 different states. They were defeated in a dozen states, but passed in Georgia, North Dakota and Kentucky. The Modern Ag Alliance (MAA), a lobbying and public relations group founded by Bayer, the maker of Roundup, spent $1.6 million lobbying in Tennessee in 2025.
FDA, CDC, and USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service are being defunded. Food safety lawyer Bill Marler has represented families on the other end of foodborne outbreaks for more than 30 years. FDA lost nearly 3,900 employees in 2025 alone, part of an HHS purge of some 20,000 jobs.
Guatemalan farmers are turning to organic pesticides to replace expensive synthetic alternatives. They are using a mixture of locally available plants and ideas about farming passed down by ancestors to protect their plots. The Maya civilization had a rich history of farming dating back to 2000 B.C. Its most celebrated agriculture system is the milpa.
Raw milk is on the rise, driven by political shifts and wellness trends. More than 10 million Americans now drink it, and weekly sales rose by 65% from 2023 to 2024 alone. Raw milk has no significant nutritional benefits over its sanitized counterpart, cannot treat or cure disease, and subjects its consumers to over 100 times the risk of foodborne illness.
IPES-Food report urges a strategy of 'resilient self-reliance' to improve equity, sustainability and solidarity. Global food systems have been profoundly transformed by the geopolitical changes of the last four decades. Corporate interests have reshaped food systems over the last half-century. The legitimacy and capacity of multilateral institutions have been undermined by superpowers abusing international arrangements for their own advantage.
James Hepp is a first-generation farmer in northern Iowa. He tills only narrow strips of land and avoids applying nitrogen fertilizer when he’s not growing crops. Hepp represents one-third of the “Lobe Rangers” who have taken to social media to highlight the gap between the Nutrient Reduction Strategy and the actual adoption of conservation practices.
Connecticut will prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of certain consumer products that contain intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) beginning July 1, 2026. The products are apparel, carpets, rugs, cleaning products, cookware, cosmetic products, dental floss, fabric treatments, children’s products, menstruation products, textile furnishings, ski wax, or upholstered furniture.
Surface ozone levels increased from 2015 to 2024, deteriorating air quality across the Midwest and Western U.S. According to the study authors, this contributed to an increase of 318 premature deaths per year from fire-sourced ozone since 2013. NASA-funded research mapped these ozone levels in kilometer-by-kilometer grids across the entire continental U.s. between 2003 and 2024.
Andes AgroecolĂłgicos project brings together 12 prominent content creators from Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador for an immersive look at agroecology in the Andes. The initiative is led by the Institute for Rural Development in South America (IPDRS) and the McKnight Foundation.
The Rural Women’s Assembly promotes agroecology as a strategy for its members’ autonomy and resilience. It claims a membership of 170,000 women across Southern Africa. Its members take the position that women's right to own land is inseparable from their rights to food and water.