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The Food Warning Label Dilemma: How Front-of-Package Labels Fall Short in Tackling Obesity and Other Diseases

April 26, 2024 bppj 0

In recent years, front-of-package labeling warnings and traffic-light food rating systems have gained momentum as a tool for combating obesity and promoting healthier diets. Many […]

Guinea: Where land and debt collide

April 26, 2024 bppj 0

The Guinean property regime makes it hard for external actors to co-opt land. Land grabbing in Africa has made quite a stir in recent years. […]

The Kroger and Albertsons Merger: An Urgent Need for Antitrust Action in Food Retail

April 12, 2024 bppj 0

In 1997, Americans bought 20 percent of all groceries from the top four retailers. By 2019, the top four retailers claimed 43 percent of all […]

Atmospheric River Data: Key to Saving California’s Agricultural Sector

December 1, 2022 bppj 0

California’s agricultural sector is reliant on the increasingly unpredictable mega-storms, called atmospheric rivers, that can dump as much water as twenty Mississippi rivers. Climate change […]

The paradox of being a woman farmer in Baringo

November 19, 2021 bppj 0

By Maria Villalpando More than twenty women gather below the shade of an old acacia as children and goats roam around, and the heat starts […]

Setting the Table for a Climate-Conscious Diet

April 25, 2019 bppj 0

By Fiona McBride Daily headlines reprimand shoppers for perpetuating climate change, encouraging them to tackle global warming by replacing one supermarket purchase with another or […]

Beyond Overabundance: A Smarter Strategy For True Food Security

February 22, 2019 bppj 0

By Maria F. Balcazar Tellez Scientists, engineers, and governments today are striving to meet the food demands of the 9.1 billion people expected to live […]

Building the Appetite for Food Policy in National Politics

December 4, 2018 bppj 0

By Fiona McBride This year’s midterm elections reached a fever pitch unlike many midterms before, producing the highest voter turnout since 1966 and excruciatingly close […]

Employing Monitoring & Evaluation to Improve Wildlife Conservation

September 28, 2018 bppj 0

By Ratna Sinroja A summer internship in wildlife conservation may sound like niche social work far removed from human problems. However, my organization, Maliasili, seeks […]

Food and Ag Policy under Trump: Farmers, Workers, and Eaters Have Plenty to Fight For

February 4, 2017 bppj 0

By Beth Spitler Many Americans think that food and agriculture policy has no role in their lives. You eat food, but you’re not a farmer […]

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