FOOD AND LAND
Land management and food production both contribute to climate change and carry promises for just, equitable, and accessible solutions.
Climate touches everything. These resources will help you understand how climate touches your profession and your role for climate action.
" We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land." - Frances Beinecke
Books
Eat like a fish (2020)
Project Drawdown (2017)
Articles
Farming Articles
How Cuba's women farmers kept everyone fed (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2021)
Reparations to black-led food and land organizations (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2021)
What U.S. farming can do to stop climate change (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2020)
Here’s how big farms got a big government pass on air pollution (Mother Jones, 2020)
What would it take to get more farmers fighting climate change? (Grist, 2020)
Cash-strapped farms are growing a new crop: Solar panels (Grist, 2020)
CA farmers create a climate change buffer for migratory water birds (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Black farmers revive African roots: ‘We are feeding our liberation” (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2018)
Food Production Impact Articles
Air quality-related health damages of food (PNAS, 2021; Media)
Unsheltered in place (Mother Jones, 2020)
Adaptations insufficient to address heat risk to US agriculture workers (IOP Science, 2020; Media)
During wildfires, West Coast farmers forced to put harvest over health (Crosscut, 2020)
Food Articles
The growth of America's food forests (Guardian, 2021)
Food systems responsible for ⅓ of human-caused emissions (Carbon Brief, 2021)
Ron Finley the ‘Gangsta Gardener,” wants you to think green (Vogue, 2021)
Wild crops could save our food system - if we don’t destroy them first (Grist, 2020)
She sees a more just, equitable food system in our future (Grist, 2020)
Harnessing rice fields to resurrect California’s endangered salmon (Inside Climate News, 2021)
Wealthy nations eating past the Paris Agreement’s climate target (Inside Climate News, 2020)
Here’s how we solve the planet’s food waste problem (Grist, 2019)
Forest Articles
Do forests grow better with our help or without? (Mother Jones, 2020)
This Boston mushroom hunter is reclaiming the forest and teaching food autonomy (WBUR, 2020)
Land Articles
US House passes historic public lands bill pledging to protect nearly 3M acres (Guardian, 2021)
Climate Action Pathway: Land Use (Global Climate Action UN, 2020)
Distant cousins of food crops deserve respect and protection (NPR, 2020)
Tribes and firefighters work together to prevent catastrophic wildfires (Grist, 2020)
With wildfires on the rise, indigenous fire management is poised to make a comeback (Grist, 2020)
Ethanol: Scientists question the fuel’s climate claims (Inside Climate News, 2019)
How my settler ancestors set us up for uncontrollable wildfires (Yes! Solutions Journalism, 2018)
Here's how America uses its land (Bloomberg, 2018)
Seafood Articles
A Native perspective on regenerative ocean farming (Nature Conservancy, 2021)
This startup says seaweed is the secret to a better faux burger (Grist, 2021)
Climate change is turning shellfish toxic and threatening Alaska natives (Grist, 2020)
Soil Articles
New evidence shows fertile soil gone from midwestern farms (NPR, 2021)
To till or not to till in a temperate ecosystem: climate change mitigation (IOP Science, 2021)
Podcasts
Full Series Podcasts
Food Production Podcasts
Plant based proteins (People Place Planet Podcast, 2021)
Food and climate change without the hot air (Shaping the Future, 2021)
School food’s future with Adam Kesselman (Flipping the Table, 2020)
Dr. Mark Hyman on the food fix our planet needs (Climate Pod, 2020)
Best if used: Tackling food waste in Music City U.S,A, (People Place Planet Podcast, 2019)
The fate of food (Climate One, 2019)
Chefs cutting carbon (Climate One, 2018)
The new surf and turf (Climate One, 2018)
Plate to planet (Climate One, 2018)
How climate will change the way we eat (Climate One, 2018)
Chasing the harvest in the heat (Climate One, 2017)
Climate on your plate (Climate One)
Food Justice Podcasts
Trailblazing tribes: Agriculture (People Place Planet Podcast, 2019)
Farming as generational wealth (Raíces Verdes, 2019)
Ending settler colonialism to reclaim food justice and sovereignty (Green Dreamer)
Land Podcasts
Honoring the wisdom of Mother trees and old growth forests (Green Dreamer, 2021)
Soil advocate Diana Donlon describes power of soil and her work (Flipping the Table, 2020)
Mauna Kea: Protecting Sacred Lands (Raíces Verdes, 2019)
Land, race and climate (Climate One, 2019)
Videos
Video Shorts
The future of seafood (Science and Society, 2019)
Indigenous-led permaculture brings resilience and food sovereignty (Rob Greenfield, 2020)
A thousand years of fake meat in 2 minutes (Grist, 2020)
Mustangs apples on the move (Ross Harrison, 2019)
What organic actually tells you about food and sustainability (Grist, 2015)
How to feed the world and end poverty at the same time (Grist, 2015)
This Kansas farm beat the market with the honor system and a llama (Grist, 2015)
America has fewer and fewer large farms. Here’s why that matters (Grist, 2015)
How much water goes into your food (Grist, 2015)
Watch Minnesota’s food scene grow (Grist, 2015)
South African kids try to reconcile back-to-the land with big city dreams (Grist, 2014)
Seeds of our ancestors, seeds of life (Winon LaDuke, 2012)
Solutions to the food and ecological crisis facing us today (Dr. Vadana Shiva, 2012)
Full Length Film
Gather (2020
2040 (2019)
The Biggest Little Farm (2018)