Food / Agriculture
Articles about Agriculture, ordered by date. 
Thailand: Fry another day
Peter Yeung reports on the politics of street food in Bangkok - an informal industry currently under threat from the forces of gentrification.
When it is illegal to waste food
By supermarkets, that is. Timothy Baster and Isabelle Merminod on the progress of a much-lauded French law.
What the land grabbers did next
In 2013, New Internationalist travelled to Mozambique to meet communities pushing back against expanding forestry plantations. Five years on, Nils Adler finds foreign companies have yet to deliver on promises to local farmers.
Bleeding veggie burger
Meat without ‘murder’ might seem a worthy goal, but even if most vegans did want to eat a convincing replica of the real thing, is it safe? Yohann Koshy reports on a new vegan food product from Silicon Valley.
Automating the farm
Self-driving tractors and the internet of cows – welcome to the world of precision agriculture. Jim Thomas lays out the vision driving corporate giants into a merger frenzy.
Grand land theft
Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.
In Venezuela's difficult times the grassroots are stronger
The time has come for rural communities to play an important role in the country, reports Tamara Pearson.
Semantically engineered crops
Louise Sales reports on word games in the GMO industry.
'Because the river told me'
Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.
A cleaner cup of tea
Sabita Banerji on improving tea workers' lives.
What is killing sugarcane cutters?
Workers in in Central America face an epidemic of a chronic kidney disease, new research reveals.
The People vs Monsanto (and other GM giants)
Around the world people are mobilizing against biotech bullies.
Action! What can I do?
The following organizations give advice and information, and campaign on GM, food safety and sovereignty.
The farmer’s friend
Are farmers benefitting from growing GM crops, as Monsanto claims? Dionne Bunsha investigates.
Is Monsanto on the side of science?
Claire Robinson looks at what has happened to scientists who dare to say GM foods are not safe.
Total control
Monsanto has a mission. But where will it lead the rest of us? Vanessa Baird begins this month's investigation into one of the world's most powerful and hated corporations.
'Our main crop is hope'
Meet Cuba's highly successful organic farmers. Why are they getting short shrift, when the country needs more homegrown food?
No joy in soy
Demand for genetically modified soy is changing the face of Argentina. And not for the better, says Eilís O’Neill.
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