Book Review

Feast, famine and the rise and fall of civilizations (that includes our own)

Agricultural expert Evan D.G. Fraser and journalist Andrew Rimas recount with meaty and incredibly captivating detail the systems humans have created to feed our metastasizing populations, the fickle natural phenomena on which those systems rely, and the collapses that inevitably follow in their latest new release Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. Evan D.G. Fraser talks with us about this history and the pattern of boom and bust to which we're still married.

Book review: Last Chance: Preserving life on earth

In his book Last Chance, Larry Schweiger reveals real-time impact of climate change, and points a values-based way forward

BOOK REVIEW: Farming in the Dark

Where are our priorities, and are we there yet, asks farmer, researcher and educator Rhonda Janke of her fellow believers in her discussion about the future of sustainable agriculture.

BOOK REVIEW: The Unhealthy Truth

This mom’s fight for clean food motivates action to break the hold of Big Food.
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