Food & Farming – The Mint Magazine

Lack of agroecological funding could be costing us our future

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:59 +0000

Over many decades, vast sums of money for innovation in farming including seeds, crop applications and new technologies has come from those large enterprises and organisations that can extract value …

Drought spreads beyond Kenya’s arid north, plunging herders into crisis

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:58:36 +0000

SHOMPOLE, Kenya, Feb 6 (Reuters) – The dozens of cow and goat carcasses scattered around Maria Katanga’s family compound testify to the grinding impact of an ongoing drought on Kenya’s …

How will weight-loss jabs change the food industry?

Henry Leveson-Gower — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:38:47 +0000

Consumers are surrounded by food that is highly conducive to weight gain. No one likes dieting and very few have lasting success. But now weight-loss injections are seen as gamechangers, …

Regenerative Agriculture Finally Has a Seat at the Table at USDA

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:37:16 +0000

Something unusual and long overdue recently took place at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Two regenerative agriculture pioneers, Rick Clark of Indiana and Blake Alexander of California, stood alongside …

AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages

Alex Pierre-Fallman — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:35:49 +0000

The Taiwanese semiconductor industry’s power demand is forecast to grow eightfold by 2028. Rapid expansion of wind energy to support the demand is impacting the livelihoods of oyster farmers and …

Neither credible nor edible

Henry Leveson-Gower — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:39:56 +0000

The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s …

Taking the die out of diet

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:41:26 +0000

Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health, …

WI Oh WI

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:45:12 +0000

When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s …

Give and take

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000

What happens when the same people who once marched in protest suddenly find themselves inside Town Hall? Tanya Zerbian, Soledad Cuevas, Ana Moragues-Faus and Daniel López-García tell the tale of …

The Breadbasket on Borrowed Time

Henry Leveson-Gower — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000

Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to …