All The Bite

On October 12, the government of Mozambique quietly announced that it would close its Agriculture Promotion Centre, the agency created in 2006 to promote large-scale foreign investment in the country’s agricultural sector. Is land-grabbing over in Mozambique and across Africa and the rest of the developing world?

California’s aquifers, underground areas where water collects, may have up to three times the amount of useable groundwater as previously estimated.

Authors of a new report suggest that reducing meat consumption is among the most significant ways to reduce CO2 emissions and ensuring food security.

Food affects the environment, the economy, health, social justice, politics, and more. There are a number of magazines that explore the world of food from these many perspectives.

With the Obama Administration coming to a close, a new agriculture secretary will preside over the USDA next year. Food Tank has hand-picked visionaries in the food system whose experience and qualifications make them ideal choices.

At a time of food shortage and price shocks, 30 farmers are on a cross-country mission to promote the virtues of healthy, sustainable, profitable farming.

Consumers are paying more for a cup of joe, even though they're buying less coffee overall. 

Starbucks announced Wednesday that it will double its presence in China by opening 5,000 stores across the mainland by 2021.

Pepsi will expand its low- and no-sugar options following the UN health agency's recommendation that governments use tax policy to increase the price of sugary drinks. 

McDonald's is making moves that hint it may be ready to bring the trademark sauce on its Big Macs to grocery store shelves. 

The Good Food Org Guide includes at least 10 organizations from each state and serves as a resource for American eaters, businesses, farmers, and funders to find nearby organizations working to cultivate a better food system.

Tree Top, a cooperative of more than 1,000 growers, now saves almost 600 million pounds of ugly apples each year by processing them into apple juice, applesauce, and apple bits for oatmeal, among other products.

Recent blooms of toxic algae in southern Florida led Gov. Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency.

The World Health Organization called for a 20-percent tax on sugary drinks (sodas, fruit juice, etc,.) tor reduce sugar consumption.

Communities across the country are emphasizing the importance of farm to school programs, which are in place in more than 42,500 schools across the US. 

Millennials don't buy Big Macs: Among young people, the mass-market food model for which McDonald's often serves as shorthand is in decline.

Beginning in 2009, the US has entered into numerous organic equivalency arrangements with other countries, including Canada, the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, South Korea, and is currently in the process of establishing an arrangement with Mexico.

Thanks to price increases, lunch has been losing restaurant customers. 

'Green water,' or water absorbed by soil and plants and then released back into the air, makes up 61.1 percent of all precipitation, and it's underutilized. 

Consumers now will be able to order the whole McDonald's breakfast menu—muffin, biscuit and McGriddle sandwiches—all day.