Food Tank: The Think Tank For Food

Iowa is the number-one pork producer in the United States, but it has relatively few hog farms. Large factory farm facilities have replaced smaller family farms. The state lost nearly 90 percent of its hog farms from 1982 to 2017, according to U.S. Department...

In his new book, Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens, Rajiv Shah makes the case that it is realistic to hold optimism for the future.
Drawing on lessons learned while working on issues ranging from a famine crisis in East Africa to the 2014 Ebola epidemic, Shah conveys strategies for driving change in Big Bets. And he underscores the advantages of ambitious actions that can attract...

The Center for Environmental and International Law (CIEL) is educating and mobilizing the public on the effects of agrochemicals on the environment. By taking legal action, researching, and building campaigns around the world, CIEL hopes to expose the...

The Wall Street Farm Bill was precisely the sort of law that President Truman warned about in 1948. The sort of balance encouraged by the New Deal Farm Bill preserved economic stability and insulated farmers from fluctuations in prices. But the new law...