Publication day for Feeding the world as if people mattered: How small farms produce value beyond yields! If we need to feed the world, then who produces the farms and farmers? uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding...

"By creating policies that make it easier for small, diversified producers to thrive, Congress has a chance to improve our national security and support rural communities in one fell swoop,” writes Andrew Flachs, an associate professor at Purdue University, in an op-ed.

Building up local capacity and teaming up with existing institutions is a great way to get more local food and local food jobs civileats.com/2026/04/23/o...

“Small farms and gardens are great places to explore social reproduction…It’s not about an individual growing a garden, but rather the possibilities that emerge when lots of us can grow gardens together.” Thanks for the great chat UAP! uapress.arizona.edu/2026/05/five...

Op-ed: Facing Global Disruptions, Congress Should Invest in Local Food

The bill passed with the support of nearly all Republicans and 14 Democrats in favor, but it is unlikely to pass the Senate.

There's a fresh call for reviewers up on Allegra! Follow the link to browse a beautifully curated list of books related to this year's theme of Solidarities, Hope and Care. Among other questions, it asks: what values, visions, or actions will assure our collective survival through these times?

Really happy to see Feeding the World as if People Mattered included in this great collection of books for review on solidarity, hope, and care from @allegralab.bsky.social - I want to read all of these! allegralaboratory.net/call-for-rev...

“We’re working toward understanding that the ecology is also the economy here - a diversified ecology is supported by a diversified economy…while monocultures support oligarchy” Great chat about feeding the world as if people mattered with Down to Earth podcast radiocafe.media/downtoearth-...

Against consolidation, local food networks offer both national security and food security - thanks to @scholars.org for help crafting and pitching this piece

“Our food security does not have to be so vulnerable to global disruptions,” writes @drflachsophone.bsky.social in an op-ed. “We can address this through legislation and policy fixes that encourage stronger regional markets and support a more diverse group of farmers.”

Great review, and excellent questions to ask if we’re invested in feeding the world as if people, not capital gains, mattered

Anthropology friends going to SfAA and readers more widely, you can preorder my new book (and others from the press) with code AZSFAA26 for 40% off! uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding...

What does a fair food system actually look like? In this Democracy Does podcast episode, @aroundrobin.bsky.social interviews @drflachsophone.bsky.social (Purdue) about tariffs, farm economics, universal school meals, SNAP cuts, and building resilient food systems. Learn more & listen. ⤵️

Fun conversation with Robin Hill on the Democracy Does Podcast: Why Food Policy is Everyone's Business (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfbd...). We talk tariffs, solidarity, and better ways to feed the world as if people mattered in anticipation of my forthcoming book

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

“farmers’ in-difference also troubles a more fundamental paradigm of ‘technology adoption,’ which inevitably assumes technologies to be at the center of analysis, rather than the farm, good working conditions …” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Opportunity for early- and mid-career journalists on the food system beat—and those who aspire to be. Applications open for the 2026 Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Food System Fellowship is now open. Please apply and/or share! clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Mapping food apartheid in its intersections of racial discrimination, economic segregation, and market consolidation - terrific layer to emphasize for this established pattern of food injustice

47,900,000 Americans, including one in five children, were food insecure in 2024. That was before restrictions to SNAP and higher food prices. The Trump administration has since ceased publication of these reports. Read the final one, by the dedicated USDA ERS team, here ers.usda.gov/sites/defaul...

Maybe my NYT essay can create common ground: Factory farms should be regulated like factories. Animal poop should be regulated like human poop. We can still fight about other stuff but this should be Big Ag against Everyone Else. nytimes.com/2026/01/20/opinion/manure-population-rivers-water.html

#Poland: A sample of #farmers who diversified, i.e. who sell 15-50% of their products into short food #supplychains (and not only into normal/long food supply chains), have higher perceived #resilience, i.e. higher perceived adaptability & transformability of their farms: doi.org/10.1186/s401...

It's an incredible effort of imagination to see how much better the world might be with less crap in it. The Anthropause, out today, is Stan Cox's wonderous hymn to the joys of less stuff and more connection. Read it! bookshop.org/p/books/anth...

Glyphosate expanded massively with a combination of generics and gmo monocultures - the problem with encouraging one poison instead of many is that you’re still encouraging poison doi.org/10.1111/joac...

Flachs knows about this.

As ever, important to differentiate between GMOs, which are just a handful of commercial crops grown for industrial agricultural systems, not including wheat mentioned here… (www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops...)

Closing out 2025 with lessons on quiet sustainability from Bosnian home gardeners: productive agrobiodiversity and mutual aid, but frustration with a stymied opportunity. Gardens keep a home that one might return to...someday journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One thing 2025 made clear: Durable progress on climate in the US will require structural reform to our corrupted political systems. Otherwise, steps forward will always be vulnerable to the bloody clawbacks we saw this year. A political strategy that doesn't center system reform is not "pragmatic."

Great conversation between two people who don’t agree about the solution to a shared problem - no gotchas or barbs, but we see value of deconstructing simple stories of tech and progress, and pushing us past talking points to see ag as political

It is also grossly ironic to use faulty data to cut the statistics program. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-use...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

This is key: "Atlanta officials spent years trying to lure major chain grocery stores to neighborhoods that don’t offer residents big supermarkets with fresh, healthy food [but] large private operators have been reluctant to open a store in poorer neighborhoods." Gov't addressing a market failure.

The university released a statement saying that it was “committed to academic freedom, following policies that uphold due process for faculty and provide a framework to best serve our students.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.

One in 5 kids in the US doesn’t know when their next meal will come. Universal free school meals improve academic performance, dramatically decrease food insecurity, and cut the bureaucracy preventing access to healthier, climate-friendly food. coloradonewsline.com/2025/11/04/c...

Awesome student fun in How we feed the world class: building an industrial farm ecology-economy-society and then repairing the metabolic rift piece by piece - students really excited to design a better world after 2 units of problems

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space 🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology

Flippantly saying Garden to replace SNAP is a cruel response not only because of these size/skill/work/access issues; but also because places good at fighting hunger like Brazil and India work with networks of farms, gardens, and brokers to feed people through govt programs

And, at the same time as that many graduate programs are being defunded, some states, such as Indiana, are putting pressure on public-university programs to graduate more students or be eliminated. You can't do both of those things. #AcademicSky

As a Purdue grad, this is what I want to see!

And now open access!

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

@ashattuck.bsky.social giving a great lecture in the horticulture department at Purdue! To know about the risks of the global pesticide complex we first need to have usable data about who sprays what and where it’s made

Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov has been arrested while protesting near the Israel-Gaza border. Read more: clssicfm.co/4gx5aPS

The Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming team and the good folk at the Kasisi Agricultural Centre in Zambia have some *very* exciting results from their trials. Can't say much more, but it'll be a gamechanger. events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships. doi.org/10.1177/0278...

We offer these resources as we enter the High Holy Days this year in grief and in outrage. Our movements have grown to greater power than ever, and yet we have not yet had enough power to shut down the US-Israeli war machine waging death, destruction, and famine on Palestinians in Gaza.

Great intersection of ethnobiology, food security, and food sovereignty from Kaminski and colleagues: communities manage political ecological change by combining long-distance and local food systems ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/eb... Free and open access as always from Ethnobiology Letters

Social reproduction, unpaid and keeping us alive as ever