Eight years ago, when I first started to pitch publishers on the idea of a cookbook about fish in cans, the response was a resounding, diplomatically phrased iteration of ‘Ew.’ … One ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had created a paradox of plenty in the nation’s agricultural system: environmentally destructive overproduction of a few major ...

By Theodore Ross We released the newest episode of Forked, our podcast on food politics and policy, earlier this week. It tries to reckon with what the One Big Beautiful Act — heretofore known as ...

Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean ha[ve] rendered olive oil scarcer than it had been in recent memory,” writes Lauren Markham, and as prices have risen, so have thefts. “Thieves have ...

Greece’s olive oil crisis is bad enough to tempt thieves Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, but Greece shows how climate change has made the harvest much less predictable—and growing regions ...

Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest between… ...

Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. From above, the surrounding landscape looks like stirred ...

Lab-grown meat has a P.R. problem Leading scientists agree that cultured meat products won't give you cancer, but the industry doesn't have the decades of data to prove it, so it's trying to avoid the ...

On a chilly afternoon last autumn, I padded down a faint path beneath a grove of hemlock trees in British Columbia’s inland temperate rainforest. The moss on the ground was as thick as a mattress.

It’s one in the morning and the stars are out as hundreds of people shuffle slowly along the wall that marks the U.S. border in the small Mexican city of San Luis Río Colorado. In heavy boots and wide ...

From paying workers a living wage to diversifying the supply chain, the coronavirus crisis has exposed fundamental problems with how food is produced and distributed in this country. We asked a group ...