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If you build a new supermarket in a food desert, will low income households go there to buy healthier food? Are Dollar Stores cornering the ...

Here are some highlights from research on this topic: --> Mineral nutrient composition of vegetables, fruits and grains is not declinin...

A lot of production related benefits of biotechnology have been discussed in the literature, for instance decreased greenhouse gas emissions...

Understanding the differences in the way CO2 vs methane behaves is fundamental to understanding their respective roles impacting climate cha...

I'm a big fan of the Incidental Economist blog  where I have learned a lot about healthcare economics. Recently healthcare economist Aus...

Some time ago I wrote a couple posts discussing some of the issues in microeconomics that perplexed me the most in graduate school. In  Ap...

Farming is the world’s most important career — that’s why it needs a new image From AgFunder News:  https://agfundernews.com/farming-is-th...

How do we form our beliefs about the solutions to societies most complex problems? Do we trust data? Theory? Both? What does it mean to base...

Recent trade policy talks and tariffs imposed by the Trump administration have had an impact on soybean prices (see:  Trump's And China...

In HIERARCHY, DISAGREEMENT, AND FOOD POLITICS food economist Jayson Lusk discusses Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and a modification or ap...

There has been a lot of conversation lately regarding conflicts of interest in research. This recent tweet by Andrew Kniss resonated a lot w...

There was a nice guest post on AgWeb recently titled: Gene Editing: Building Better Blueprints, One Gene at a Time.  I really like the b...

This is a couple years old but just as relevant and inspiring: "I believe the future of agriculture will be shaped by continued impro...

Recently I was reading an article,  "The big Washington food fight"  in Politico discussing challenges of bringing diverse intere...

A really nice piece in the Huffington Post by Kevin Folta evangelizing about future careers in plant breeding ( link ). I like the way he ...

In a recent issue of Weed Science, Andrew Kniss investigates the relationship between herbicide resistance in weeds and adoption of genetica...

Kouser, S., Qaim, M., Impact of Bt cotton on pesticide poisoning in smallholder agriculture: A panel data analysis,Ecol. Econ. (2011), doi:1...

Recently I was reading an artcile, "The big Washington food fight" in Politico discussing challenges facing bringing diverse inte...

I recently reviewed a PNAS article titled "Individuals with greater science literacy and education have more polarized beliefs on contr...

See also: I deas and Research Productivity in Agriculture  From: Big Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find - Stanford Business Insights: ...