Food Resources

A fact sheet summarizing the carbon sequestration potential of integrated soil-based agricultural practices and no-till methods.

Contrary to myths about the superiority of GE crop yields, most yield gains in recent years are due to traditional breeding or improvement of other agricultural practices.

Discription of the effects and benefits of AB 32 on California’s agricultural industry.

Community Supported Agriculture Meat (CSAs) or buying clubs— offer consumers one more way of providing their families with fresh, local foods produced in a sustainable manner.

Renewable energy technologies tap into natural cycles and systems, turning the energy all around us into usable forms.

It was sold to the public as a technological miracle that would feed the world. We now know that the price is too high.

Confined animal feeding operations damage our air, water, and the rural communities they inhabit. And when we count the costs of this damage, it turns out that we can't afford to produce meat this way.

Raising swine and chickens using methods that allow them access to the outdoors is good for farmers, animals, consumers, and the environment.

Report explores how grass-fed beef and milk contribute to healthy eating.

A 2005 report by Dr. Robert Wisner, Ph.D., professor of economics at Iowa State University, analyzing various claims about the potential benefits and risks of pharmaceutical and industrial crops.

A 2004 report analyzing how to protect our food supply from unwanted contamination by pharma crops.

The Union of Concerned Scientists works to strengthen the federal oversight needed to prevent genetically engineered crops from contaminating our food supply.