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A Place For Sustainable Food in Obama Administration?

This column looks at President-elect Barack Obama's food politics and wonders just how sustainable his administration's food policies will be.
2 January 2009 - 9:00am
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Getting Food and Farming on the Next President's Mind

The next president should take farming seriously and personally, according to Neal Pierce, who writes that rethinking the scale of food production is smart for regions, the environment and the economy.
27 October 2008 - 5:00am
Citiwire

The Death of the Lawn

More and more lawns across the country are getting axed and replaced with gardens.
20 September 2008 - 5:00am
The Oregonian

A Community Built Around Food

Vancouver's South East False Creek community is making the production of food one of the major aspects of its preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Its emphasis on local food production is a model other cities may look to follow.
10 July 2008 - 9:00am
BBC
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Cities Should Be Like Pizza

Keeping land uses separate is like keeping the ingredients of pizza separate, according to Congress for New Urbanism President John Norquist. The result is an urban pie that doesn't taste as good as it could.
16 May 2008 - 9:00am
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Can The Earth Provide Enough Food For 9 Billion People?

That's how many are expected to inhabit the world by 2050. Experts worry over looming food shortages.
28 April 2008 - 7:00am
The Christian Science Monitor
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Foraging for Food in the Urban Environment

This report from Weekend America talks with an urban food forager and looks at how to find food on the street in L.A.
15 March 2008 - 1:00pm
Weekend America

Drought Hurts Global Wheat Supplies

A severe drought in Australia has cut into the country's wheat production -- and pushed prices up all over the world.
15 March 2008 - 5:00am
BBC

Manhattan: Food Desert?

New York has become a concentration of the super-wealthy, and soaring real estate values are driving out supermarkets. Will street vendors be able to fill the gap?
6 March 2008 - 12:00pm
AlterNet
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Lisa Feldstein

Too bountiful a crop of farmers' markets?

Sun, 09/23/2007 - 12:28

The number of farmers’ markets has grown dramatically in the US over the past few years. The number increased by seven percent from 2005-2006 on top of the incredible 79 percent increase from 1994 to 2002. People love the festive atmosphere, the ability to meet the people who grow their food and the connection to the earth this experience provides, and the quality and freshness of the produce. Many patrons value local farmers’ markets as a means of lessening their impact on the earth by allowing them to eat more locally.

Yet in some places, farmers are abandoning the markets. They cite a number of reasons, including:

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