Environmental Defense Fund
How can US farmers adapt to climate change? Environmental Defense Fund offers five key options
Farmers have a long history of steadily increasing crop yields through technological innovation and improvements in management practices. However, as ...
Food safety survey: Consumers concerned with ‘dangerous’ natural chemicals and food-borne illnesses first, while pesticide worries are a distant fourth
The latest annual food industry survey demonstrates that U.S. consumers continue to have significant concerns about chemicals in food. Specifically, the survey ...
Is the FDA up to the task of reviewing the coming onslaught of lab-made cell-based meat and seafood?
One of the most innovative food products expected to enter U.S. markets in coming years is cell-cultured meat and seafood ...
Environmental Defense Fund: Sustainable farming, feeding growing population require biotechnology
It is critical that humanity meet the food needs of a growing population and relieve the increasing pressures on natural ...
Why it’s time to end the ‘farmers versus environmentalists’ fight and work together
[Editor's note: Suzy Friedman is the senior director of agricultural sustainability at the Environmental Defense Fund.] On paper, I appear ...
Michael Pollan gets it wrong: Big Ag not the villain
Journalist Michael Pollan deserves credit for elevating the national conversation about food... But his latest piece in the New York Times ...
Monsanto joins Environmental Defense Fund, others in sustainable agriculture coalition
. . . [W]e are officially launching the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC): a diverse coalition working to expand on-the-ground solutions to ...