Sustainable Agriculture & Food Policy

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Bunin writes report on conventional and organic crop production practices

Fellow Lisa Bunin wrote a report for the GRACE Communications Foundation on conventional and organic crop production practices called The FoodPrint of Crop Production (link will download report, 4.2 MB). It also highlights the environmental and health impacts of conventional agriculture and the benefits of organic. Introduction
January 10, 2019
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Delborne quoted on report accusing Pentagon of creating bioweapon

A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and possibly illegal, bioweapon, alleges a Science Policy Forum report released today. Naturally, the organization leading the research says it’s doing nothing of the sort.
December 3, 2018
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Bradman publishes on whether buffer zones will protect school children from pesticides

Fellow Asa Bradman published recently on whether buffer zones around schools in agricultural areas will be adequate to protect children from the potential adverse effects of pesticide exposure?
October 4, 2018
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McClintock publishes on urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, Fellow Nathan McClintock proposes that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes.
September 10, 2018
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What Foods Are Better for the Earth?

Fellow Nicole Tichenor Blackstone is part of a team that studied the link between environmental sustainability and the 2015-20 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
September 9, 2018
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Sustainable Aquaculture Communities

Aquaculture is experiencing extremely fast growth in Maine, as it is in other parts of the country and around the world. Fishing is a critical part of Maine's economy; aquaculture is becoming more and more prevalent as commercial fishermen...
June 12, 2018
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Leslie Sanchez

2018 Fellow
Leslie is a PhD candidate in the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at the Friedman School at Tufts University. Her dissertation research focuses on the motivation and processes through which Native American water rights in the...
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Sara Santiago

2018 Fellow
Sara currently serves as the Communications Manager at The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, translating science and research on the world’s forests for a broader audience. Sara earned her Master of Forestry degree from...
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Lindsay Barbieri

2018 Fellow
Lindsay Barbieri focuses on problem-solving at the interface of agriculture, environment, and technology — from the field to the global scale. Barbieri works to deepen climate change mitigation understanding within agroecosystems, exploring...
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Philip Womble

2018 Fellow
Philip Womble is an attorney and a hydrologist specializing in water policy and water markets. He is a legal/postdoctoral fellow with the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Philip received his Ph.D. in Environment...