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Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information

By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age This post was originally published on The Conversation. The Nutrition Facts label, that black and …

Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions

Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today’s myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from …

Q&A with Aaron Eddens, author of Seeding Empire

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today’s efforts to cultivate a “Green Revolution in Africa” to a history of American projects …