Food Resources

Modest public support for up to 500 farmers markets each year could create as many as 13,500 jobs over a five-year period.

Beef production is a major contributor to global warming—but smart pasture management can help reduce emissions.

Undue influence by special interests and public officials routinely inhibits the ability of inspectors to protect our food supply.

UCS finds genetic engineering has yet to produce crops capable of reducing nitrogen pollution, despite increasing research efforts.

Organic Center report,“Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years,” shows a dramatic rise in the use of glyphosate weed killers (herbicides) on genetically engineered (GE) crops.

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.