The 2018 Gershoff Symposium , on April 27, will feature 4 presentations: "Food Labeling Chaos" (Keynote). Kathleen Merrigan, Exe...

The Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) and the Nation have an in-depth article by Bridget Huber this week on national food polic...

The Friedman School's graduate student-organized research conference on "The Future of Food and Nutrition" will take place he...

A new report from USDA's Economic Research Service finds: In the United States, 31 percent—or 133 billion pounds—of the 430 billion p...

The AGree agricultural policy initiative, which has been working for a couple years to bring together a diverse group of food policy stake...

Friedman School Ph.D. student Nicole Tichenor explains the concept of community supported agriculture (CSA) health insurance rebates on the ...

Many readers of this blog seek to make environmentally sustainable food choices.  Good choices include eating food with less meat, less proc...

Tufts University's New Entry Sustainable Farming Project was covered this week in the Boston Globe , which described the project's...

During a period of time when food policy-making at the federal level seems nearly dysfunctional -- witness the continued absence of a farm b...

Barry Estabrook 's new book Tomatoland is getting great coverage.  The NYT review is by Dwight Garner, who grew up not far from the hea...

The work of recent Friedman School graduates Amanda Beal and Ellen Tyler is covered in an online Tufts Now article by Julie Flaherty. What ...

In a speech today on the UC Davis campus, Kathleen Merrigan gave a fascinating tour of USDA's bustling and diverse work on local food, h...

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today announced its 2011 Growing Green Awards , in four categories. The awards went to: Food P...

This week the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy announced a joint agreement to support a U.S. dairy i...

The Gaining Ground community is excited about its new cookbook , which is already on its second printing run. My Friedman School colleagu...

The non-profit group Kitchen Gardeners International has a video celebrating the success this year of the campaign to establish a White Hou...

The Natural Resources Defense Council is taking nominations through December 4 for its second annual "Growing Green" awards progr...

The website "Truth in Food" has a commentary about farming, titled, "10 reasons why they hate you so." It caricatures t...

The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (NESFP) was featured on NPR's Here and Now last week highlighting two farmers, one from Zimb...

Time Magazine today gives a polished and highly readable summary of contemporary issues in U.S. food policy, titled "America's Foo...