Food

Dutch grocer Jumbo turned heads this year when it stopped discounting fresh animal meat. Other European supermarkets are also trying to shift protein sales to improve diets and cut emissions.

Food

Can weeds hold the key to turning farms into carbon-storage powerhouses?

Matt Simon

Groups like PlantVillage are getting farmers to stop burning field waste and turn it into yield-boosting, carbon-storing biochar instead

Food

What we can learn from Mexico's struggle to ban a potent pesticide

Erin Nelson, Laura Gomez Tovar and Manuel Ángel Gómez Cruz

Researchers are helping citrus farmers adopt agroecology practices to transition away from glyphosate, as the Mexican government wavers on whether to ban the weed killer

Food

Here's how the meat and dairy lobby is watering down climate policy in Europe

Jessica Scott-Reid

InfluenceMap report reveals that backsliding on climate policies in Europe is partly due to meat and dairy lobbying tactics that mirror those used by Big Oil

Food | Summer 2024

How Sundance Commons is training the next generation of young, racialized farmers

Neha Chollangi

With more than 40% of Canadian farmers retiring in the next decade, an urban farm in Toronto is giving marginalized youth the tools to start their own farm businesses

Food

How climate change is rocking the wine industry

Laila Benkrima

Drought conditions, heat waves and smoke from forest fires have heavily impacted grape yields in Canada and beyond, forcing an age-old industry to turn to new technologies and methods to survive

Food | Summer 2024

The World Bank cooks up a recipe for a climate-friendly food system: Cut red meat subsidies

Alex Robinson

A new paper lays out a roadmap for how the world can reduce emissions from food partly by redirecting the subsidies given to the meat and dairy industries

Food | Spring 2024

Africa is already leading the plant-based future

Shilpa Tiwari

More than a dietary trend, Afro-veganism advocates for a more equitable food system and is spurring innovative solutions from entrepreneurs across the continent

Food | Spring 2024

The growing movement to take the bull shit out of organic farming

Nicholas Carter

Organic agriculture has become synonymous with spreading manure. Veganic farmers are cultivating what they say is a greener path.

Sustainable Economy Intelligence

The world’s most sustainable MBA programs are producing a generation of changemakers

These 30 under 30 are leading a green youthquake