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Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn
By Max Bearak, Dionne Searcey and Mira Rojanasakul. Photographs and video by Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber for The New York Times. Nov....
Serena Valentino
Dec 1, 20233 min read
Americans Love Avocados. It’s Killing Mexico’s Forests.
By Simon Romero and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Photographs by César Rodríguez Reporting from Patuán and other sites around the state of...
Serena Valentino
Nov 29, 20233 min read
As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change
Christopher Flavelle went to Montana and Kansas to report this story. Data analysis and graphics by Mira Rojanasakul. Nov. 24, 2023 | The...
Serena Valentino
Nov 27, 20233 min read
As the CEO of Land O’Lakes, she’s changing the rules of American farming
By Alicia Wallace, CNN Updated 9:26 AM EST, Tue November 21, 2023 CNN Business Arden Hills, Minnesota CNN — In 2023, the surge in...
Serena Valentino
Nov 21, 20233 min read
Extreme weather and falling demand are pushing wineries into the red
By Anna Cooban, Claudia Colliva, Maya Szaniecki and Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Updated 11:54 AM EST, Sun November 19, 2023...
Serena Valentino
Nov 21, 20232 min read
The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
MATT REYNOLDS | SCIENCE | WIRED | NOV 6, 2023 4:00 AM The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global...
Serena Valentino
Nov 17, 20232 min read
Citrus greening has entered key lemon growing region in California–8,600 acres of citrus quarantined
Publication date: Tue 14 Nov 2023 | Author: Marieke Hemmes © FreshPlaza.com Ventura County, located in the southern part of California,...
Serena Valentino
Nov 15, 20233 min read
How Farmers Are Teaching Old Tractors to Think for Themselves
By Bob Tita | Photographs by Kaiti Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal Nov. 4, 2023 9:30 am ET Deere, Agco, CNH offer cheaper retrofits...
Serena Valentino
Nov 9, 20233 min read
A Tangle of Rules to Protect America’s Water Is Falling Short
By Dionne Searcey and Delger Erdenesanaa Part of a series on the causes and consequences of disappearing water. | Nov. 2, 2023 The Times...
Serena Valentino
Nov 3, 20233 min read
Brazilian Lawmakers Advance Country’s Regulated Carbon Market
By Paulo Trevisani and Luciana Magalhaes | Oct. 26, 2023 7:00 am ET | WSJ PRO Local exporters hope that regulation will open doors in...
Serena Valentino
Nov 3, 20233 min read
Companies capture a lot of CO2. Most of it is going into new oil.
By Shannon Osaka | October 25, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT | The Washington Post The government is still funding the controversial practice of...
Serena Valentino
Oct 27, 20233 min read
Could regenerative agriculture change farming
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Serena Valentino
Oct 23, 20231 min read
How plants communicate with each other when in danger
By Kasha Patel October 21, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT The Washington Post It sounds like fiction from “The Lord of the Rings.” An enemy begins...
Serena Valentino
Oct 23, 20232 min read
How a Fertilizer Shortage Is Spreading Desperate Hunger
By Peter S. Goodman Photographs and Video by Finbarr O’Reilly For The New York Times Reporting from Yola, Gombe and Abuja, Nigeria...
Serena Valentino
Oct 17, 20232 min read
Serena Valentino
Oct 10, 20230 min read
Arizona governor moves to end Saudi-owned farm’s controversial leases
By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez | October 2, 2023 at 9:16 p.m. EDT | The Washington Post Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs...
Serena Valentino
Oct 10, 20232 min read
Olive oil prices reach record highs as Spain’s harvest is halved
By Laura Reiley | Updated October 6, 2023 at 3:14 p.m. EDT | The Washington Post Extreme weather decimates major producers’ yields and...
Serena Valentino
Oct 9, 20232 min read
How a few bags of dirt could help make the planet more resilient to climate change
By Jonathan Moens | October 8, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. EDT | The Washington Post ASTANA, Kazakhstan — A team of scientists loaded into a gray...
Serena Valentino
Oct 9, 20231 min read
IFPA tapped into a federal program to advance produce industry sustainability efforts.
BY: MIKE DUFF Originally printed in the September 2023 issue of Produce Business. The Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities has the...
Serena Valentino
Oct 1, 202310 min read
For Many Big Food Companies, Emissions Head in the Wrong Direction
By Julie Creswell Published Sept. 22, 2023 Updated Sept. 24, 2023 The New York Times Several of the world’s largest food and restaurant...
Serena Valentino
Sep 27, 20232 min read
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