Nick Ramsden, a farmer from Pretoria, South Africa, spent a long Thursday in July driving an eighteen-wheeler along a ...

In Rawmarsh, the Rotherham-adjacent village where I grew up, food choices [in the early 2000s] still tended towards the ...

In early February, more than 1,000 Haitian migrants employed at the unionized JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, faced imminent deportation, as the Trump administration fought in ...

In the U.S., the dinner plate-sized Dropcopter drone can now be seen releasing dry pollen from what looks like a WW2 aircraft ball turret under its belly. One person can manually pollinate five to ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

By Theodore Ross The high cost of beef is probably not breaking news for most readers of this newsletter. We see it in the ...

But the changes to the H-2A visa backed by the Trump administration won't solve farmers' labor problem, and will make the serious health and safety issues that farmworkers face even worse. Shortly ...

Last month, with great fanfare, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled the new dietary guidelines for Americans. The advice was muddled—eat more meat but not more saturated fat!—and likely shaped by the very ...

“This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these ...

Elliott Woods, a longtime FERN contributor, spent nearly two and a half years reporting and writing two stories on the death of 53 migrant workers who suffocated in the back of a tractor-trailer in ...

“Each one of us has a unique scent profile, like a fingerprint. Everything from our personality type – such as extroversion, dominance and neuroticism – to our mood and health affects the way we smell ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...