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Food Security

Feeding billions of people is destabilizing the environment and contributing to conflict around the globe.

Posted inAccountability

State Pension Fund is Helping a Middle Eastern Firm Export Arizona’s Precious Groundwater

by Nathan Halverson August 10, 2023August 10, 2023

The state’s retirement system invested heavily in a private land deal that allowed a foreign company to effectively ship Arizona’s scarce water supply overseas.

Posted inEnvironment

The Great Arizona Water Grab

Portrait of steven rascón by Nathan Halverson, Michael Montgomery, Ike Sriskandarajah, Cynthia Rodriguez, Nikki Frick, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Claire Mullen, Steven Rascón, Zulema Cobb, Taki Telonidis, Brett Myers, Al Letson, Amanda Pike and David Ritsher July 29, 2023August 15, 2023

A surprising group of investors is fueling a global scramble for water in the most unlikely of places – the Arizona desert. As wells run dry, there’s a race for profits.

Posted inAccountability, Environment, Food Security, Pesticides

Farm wars

Fernanda Camarena by Fernanda Camarena, Deborah George, Byard Duncan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Kaitlin Benz and Najib Aminy April 20, 2019June 30, 2021

Dicamba herbicide is causing a civil war in farm country. Honeybee rustling in California’s almond groves. And sulfur’s link to asthma in children.

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Posted inEnvironment, Food Security, Sustainability

Beware the little green frog logo on your sustainable food

by Bernice Yeung November 28, 2016November 29, 2016

When it comes to worker protections, Rainforest Alliance hasn’t always delivered on its promises.

Posted inClimate Change, Environment, Food Security, Sustainability, The Secrets of the Drought, The Trump Era

California’s still sinking. Trump’s NASA cut would complicate things

by Nathan Halverson November 23, 2016January 29, 2017

The president-elect is gearing up to cut NASA’s environmental monitoring, which includes the data that’s been used to monitor California’s sinking.

Posted inClimate Change, Food Security, Sustainability, The Trump Era

Trump’s climate change denial benefits Russia

by Nathan Halverson November 23, 2016January 29, 2017

The Russian government is expected to benefit from record crop harvests in the coming decades as global warming begins transforming once frigid fields into temperate farmland, according to a recent United Nations report.

Posted inClimate Change, Food Security, Sustainability

Lifelines: The best reporting about food and climate

by Tom Knudson November 11, 2016November 14, 2016

The web is a worldwide wilderness of information, a heaping digital banquet of articles about food and climate, some good, many mediocre, others superficial. Perhaps you would like some suggestions. Every month, Reveal’s Tom Knudson is going to be selecting the best stories on food and climate that you should read.

Farmworkers apply the fumigant 1,3-Dichloropropene to a field in Salinas, Calif.
Posted inFood Security, Pesticides, Sustainability

CA boasted of tighter pesticide rules. But Dow got what it wanted

by Bernice Yeung October 17, 2016October 16, 2016

For one of the most popular and potent pesticides, California regulators increased how much could be used in each community every year. It’s a move that Dow has been advocating for since 2008, department documents show.

Posted inFood Security, Inequality, Sustainability

How hunger is tearing Venezuela apart

by Nathan Halverson September 20, 2016September 20, 2016

Reveal sent a team to Venezuela to document the nation’s hunger crisis. This is the team’s report, which aired in Spanish on Univision’s “Aqui y Ahora.”

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Posted inFood for 9 Billion, Food Security, Sustainability

Venezuelan life: Eating garbage. Waiting in lines. Sharing 1 egg a day

by Andy Donohue September 2, 2016June 30, 2021

Extreme hunger is tearing apart Venezuela. We sent a team there to document the conditions that sent a million people into the streets to protest President Nicolás Maduro.

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