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Elizabeth Cullen Dunn talks with Earth Eats about visiting ice cream factories and small dairy farms in Ukraine as the country faces uncertainty ar...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Progressives and ultra-rights clash over $20 billion allocated to promote "climate smart agriculture" . Farmers say the practices this would defund...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, RadioStPete Florida, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Our food and agricultural systems are helping fuel the climate emergency. But climate isn’t the only harm; these systems also impact local economi...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
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Our food and agricultural systems are helping fuel the climate emergency. But climate isn’t the only harm; these systems also impact local economi...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:56
Caption: Neighbors line up for a hot meal at La Casona de Humahuaca's olla popular during pandemic lockdowns.
Groups all over Latin America turn to the age-old practice of communal cooking to feed citizens during pandemic lockdowns. A Buenos Aires arts orga...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs...

Bought by KUHF, Maine Public Radio, KCBX, KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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This September marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal work Diet for a Small Planet, in which Frances Moore Lappé argued that cattle constitute “...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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This September marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal work Diet for a Small Planet, in which Frances Moore Lappé argued that cattle constitute “...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Nikki Silvestri
How can a grocery store lift a community out of poverty? The People’s Grocery provides creative solutions to community health problems that stem fr...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Radio Eruption!!, Credit: Fiona Ellis-Green
Debut show of Radio Eruption. Show is about food and its connection to social policy...Includes some soft features and hard features..music, sound ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2020
  • Length: 20:46
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Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain That Has Gone Wild In this Halloween, 1997, edition of Radio Curious, I spoke with Nicols Fox, the...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolutio...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Logistics, the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption, logistics, has its origins in military ca...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:14
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Did you know that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, is the largest expenditure in our Federal Fa...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fishing vessels set out from Shenjiamen Port in Zhoushan city, East China's Zhejiang province., Credit: Xinhua | Liang Minhui
China is the world's largest consumer, producer, and exporter of every fish species caught by their vast industrial fishing fleet, at a rate on tra...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 05:27
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Did you know that poverty and hunger is often associated with obesity, depression, alcoholism, and childhood trauma? Join Food Sleuth Radio host an...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: UW-Madison Bee Hive
It’s called “colony collapse disorder” or CCD. A number of years ago US beekeeping operations realized they lost between 30 and 90 percent of their...

Bought by KSFR and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Baylen Linnekin
Food Waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks … just a few of the serious issues we have with our food supply. We exp...

Bought by KCBX and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In an India bristling with news about beef raids, vegetarian only housing societies and animal slaughter bans, being vegetarian has started soundin...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When it comes to sugar science, consumers have questions: Is table sugar metabolized differently than corn syrup? What are the safe upper limits of...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Doctors and dietitians recommend that we eat more fruits and vegetables for better health. But do you know who harvests our produce, and under what...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
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Politicians and analysts mark progress by quarterly earnings, but scientists who study life cycles in the real world may need years to document cha...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When Consumer Reports tested 300 raw chicken breasts from supermarkets nationwide they discovered that more than half of the samples contained bact...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
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Should we be engineering seeds and patenting genes? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wit...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00