The Gaining Ground community is excited about its new cookbook, which is already on its second printing run. My Friedman School colleague, Lisa Troy, president of the board for Gaining Ground, writes that the organization has been contacted for an...

Tom Laskawy features my Friedman School colleague Jennifer Hashley in his fascinating Grist article about an innovative poultry processing operation sponsored by Whole Foods. Massachusetts poultry farmer Jennifer Hashley has a problem. From the moment...

Peter Watts writes about the recent climate change email disclosure controversy (quoted on boingboing): Science doesn't work despite scientists being asses. Science works, to at least some extent, because scientists are asses. Bickering and...

Following the post earlier today, here is the new report from USDA's Economic Research Service: More American households had difficulty putting enough food on the table in 2008. In 2008, 85 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the...

The federal government's annual report on U.S. household food insecurity and hunger is expected to be published today at noon. The new statistics will estimate hardship in 2008, based on a national survey last December, which asked respondents about...