Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our main content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider policy news site. You can subscribe to the newsletter below. Farmworkers dig an irrigation canal around aContinue Reading
Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. We hope you enjoy it as a companion to our main content on TheFERN.org and our Ag Insider policy news site. You can subscribe to the newsletter below. Evan Larson cuts a cross section fromContinue Reading
Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. You can subscribe here or below. Grand Dragon of the KKK Louis Beam sets fire to a boat during a rally against Vietnamese shrimpers in Santa Fe, Texas, in 1981. Photo by Bettmann Archive/GettyContinue Reading
Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. You can subscribe here or below. By Bridget Huber In The Playbook: How to deny science, sell lies and make a killing in the corporate world (Penguin Random House), Jennifer Jacquet, an associate professorContinue Reading
The Pentagon recognizes climate change as a “destabilizing force.” To meet this growing national security threat, it urges adaptation, resilience and mitigation. In a recent commentary, Leo Blanken, a professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, and Ben Cohen, a student in the school’s Applied DesignContinue Reading
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a key battle in the early environmental-justice movement: the 1982 resistance to a proposed PCB landfill in Warren County, North Carolina. Carved out of a soybean field in a predominantly Black community, the landfill would store soil tainted with carcinogen-laced oil that aContinue Reading
In their new book, Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law and Policy of Climate Neutral Agriculture, Peter Lehner and Nathan Rosenberg write that agriculture needs to move beyond producing what are sometimes called the Four Fs: food, feed, fiber and fuel. Given the climate crisis, they argue, a fifthContinue Reading
Until it was gobbled up by Bayer in 2018, Monsanto was among the most reviled companies in corporate America, targeted by anti-GMO and seed sovereignty activists, sued by people exposed to its chemicals, and exposed for bullying regulators, battling farmers and betraying science. Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews,Continue Reading
