Agriculture and Food Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://www.issues.org/topic/agriculture/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:50:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Agriculture and Food Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://www.issues.org/topic/agriculture/ 32 32 For Better Soil, Get Better Data https://issues.org/better-soil-data-zhong-mitchell/ https://issues.org/better-soil-data-zhong-mitchell/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46458 If you were buying a house, would you expect the value of the property to be based on its current condition, or its condition 50 years ago? When it comes to farmland… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/better-soil-data-zhong-mitchell/feed/ 0 Reindeer! https://issues.org/reindeer/ https://issues.org/reindeer/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44484 In Alaska, reindeer are much more real than the fantasy animals that pull Santa’s sleigh. Introduced to Alaska from Siberia by the US government in the 1890s, reindeer were part of a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/reindeer/feed/ 0 How the Octopus Got to the Senate https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/ https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:23:03 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43640 Octopuses are famously smart: they can recognize individual humans, solve problems, and even keep gardens. They are also a popular food for humans: around 350,000 tons of octopus are caught worldwide each… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/feed/ 0 Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Indigenous Sustainability https://issues.org/indigenous-sustainability-food-agriculture/ https://issues.org/indigenous-sustainability-food-agriculture/#respond Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:15:41 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43327 In our miniseries Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer, we’re working with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Lab to highlight bold ideas about how to mitigate and adapt to climate… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/indigenous-sustainability-food-agriculture/feed/ 0 Harvesting Minnesota’s Wind Twice https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/ https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/#respond Tue, 28 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41971 The University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) is located in the city of Morris, in a region of the state where the winds howl across the plains of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/wind-ammonia-minnesota-kagan-reese/feed/ 0 Reform Federal Policies to Enable Native American Regenerative Agriculture https://issues.org/native-regenerative-climate-smart-agriculture/ https://issues.org/native-regenerative-climate-smart-agriculture/#respond Mon, 20 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41975 Over the last five years, the number of bison on the Great Plains has increased significantly. Today, more than 20,000 bison roam the ancestral homelands of 82 tribes in the United States.… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/native-regenerative-climate-smart-agriculture/feed/ 0 What Do Bitter Greens Mean to the Public? https://issues.org/bioeconomy-public-engagement-gillespie/ https://issues.org/bioeconomy-public-engagement-gillespie/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40997 When I heard that a North Carolina biotech company had used gene editing technology to create a new mustard green with less bitterness earlier this year, I laughed. The company cofounder boldly… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/bioeconomy-public-engagement-gillespie/feed/ 0 When Farmland Becomes the Front Line, Satellite Data and Analysis Can Fight Hunger https://issues.org/satellite-data-nasa-harvest-ukraine-becker-reshef-mitkish/ https://issues.org/satellite-data-nasa-harvest-ukraine-becker-reshef-mitkish/#respond Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41019 It is difficult to predict exactly how events like extreme weather, pandemics, conflict, and politics will disrupt global food systems and cause people to go hungry. The destabilizing impacts of the COVID-19… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/satellite-data-nasa-harvest-ukraine-becker-reshef-mitkish/feed/ 0 Episode 37: The Complicated Legacy of the Green Revolution https://issues.org/episode-37-green-revolution-borlaug-legacy-baranski/ https://issues.org/episode-37-green-revolution-borlaug-legacy-baranski/#respond Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:29:15 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40362 The Green Revolution was a program of agricultural technology transfer that helped poor countries around the world increase food production from the 1950s onward. An American agronomist named Norman Borlaug developed and… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/episode-37-green-revolution-borlaug-legacy-baranski/feed/ 0 Left Behind by the Green Revolution https://issues.org/green-revolution-globalization-wheat-baranski-saha/ https://issues.org/green-revolution-globalization-wheat-baranski-saha/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=39504 In the late 1950s, American agronomist Norman Borlaug realized that the disease-resistant strains of wheat he bred under a Rockefeller Foundation-funded program in Mexico could produce high yields in locations ranging from… Read More

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