All The Bite

Researchers at the University of North Carolina and the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico found that one year after a 2014 junk food tax, purchases of taxed foods fell 5.1 percent.

The Caribbean region includes seven of the world’s 36 water-stressed countries in the world. A UN report found that the region is expected to see an increase in the intensity and frequency of droughts due to climate change. 

A new campaign features 17 big ideas on ending poverty, fighting injustice and hunger, and taking on climate change by the year 2030. 

With one-third of children and adolescents in the US considered overweight or obese, food education cannot be left to food industry marketing.

Aquaponics consists of bacteria, fish, and plants that work in tandem to sustain one another. 

We are perhaps a few short years from a day when you will drive past a farm or walk past a community garden and see a robot working the ground.

Since 2009, a hydroponic vertical growing system has helped diversify animal feed while increasing its nutritional density.

If countries are going to reach their climate goals, we’re going to have to stop bad trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partenrship from going forward.

Nearly 17 percent of the world’s livestock breeds face extinction. A decline in genetic diversity could have a negative impact on how they adapt to climate change, disease, famine, drought, and land degradation, some say.

Reducing meat consumption in the standard American diet can raise the potential of agricultural land to feed more people, study finds.

Climate change could render about half of today’s coffee-growing land unsuitable for production by 2050, according to a new report. Major coffee companies including Starbucks are taking steps to help the world's coffee farmers cope. 

Here is a selection of educational, thought-provoking, and inspiring books for eaters, farmers, chefs, and policymakers who are craving more information about food and agriculture.

Seattle, the city that championed the $15 per hour minimum wage, now wants new rules requiring employers to give hourly workers their scheduled shifts two weeks in advance.

Soda consumption in Berkeley has dropped by 21 percent, but is that a result of the soda tax, or increased health awareness?

The bean, touted for its nutritional punch and for its environmental sustainability, is invading the grocery store. In the United States, sales of beans and other pulses grew nearly three times faster than meat last year. 

RefettoRio Gastromotiva is highlighting the issue of food waste during the Olympics, where the soup kitchen is projected to recover twelve tons of surplus food.

Thanks to new restaurant openings and new menu items like the Chick'n Shack, Shake Shack is increasing sales and traffic while other burger chains are faltering. 

Whether you're a social activist, small farmer, or sustainability advocate, or you just enjoy food, you'll find a film to inform and interest you in all things food.

As part of a new campaign, the Center for Biological Diversity released food labels that tally the greenhouse gasses emitted, habitat lost, water used, and manure produced for every serving of beef, chicken, and pork in the United States.

A recent study in Current Biology reveals that cephalopod populations, including squid, octopuses, and cuttlefish, have increased globally since the 1950s.