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A member of the Yakama Nation plucks a Pacific lamprey off the rocks at Willamette Falls, Oregon. (Photo credit: Mason Trinca/High Country News)

As the Pacific Lamprey Declines, Native Tribes Work to Protect Sacred Eel-Like Fish

By B. Toastie, High Country News

October 21, 2022

A US Farmer Was Accused of Abusing His Workers. Then Big Tobacco Backed His Election

By Victoria Bouloubasis and Ben Stockton, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

October 14, 2022

Farm workers' efforts to organise have been impeded by Brent Jackson's political ventures

Ex-USDA Official Defends Pandemic Efforts to Keep Meatpacking Plants Running

By Mary Norkol, Investigate Midwest

October 13, 2022

How Extreme Heat Puts Pollinators—and Crops—at Risk

By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News

October 7, 2022

Bee pollinating the flower of a pumpkin

California Farmworkers Gain Historic Union Win

By Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters

September 30, 2022

Members and supporters of the United Farm Workers march through Fresno during day 10 of their 24-day march on Aug. 12, 2022. (Photo credit: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)

This Pastor Wants to Recreate a Black Farming Paradise in California

By Tiffani Patton, Nexus Media

September 23, 2022

Allensworth, California (Photo credit: Wayne Hsieh via Flickr)

Native Tribes Are Bringing Prairie Land Back to the Pacific Northwest

By Claire Elise Thompson, Grist

September 16, 2022

A group sows camas seeds on the Jamestown Tribe’s 1.5-acre prairie site. (Photo credit: Miranda Wilson)

Meet the Researchers ‘Decolonizing Botany’ to Save Our Food Supply

By Mark Schapiro, Inside Climate News

September 9, 2022

Researchers explain pearl millet pollination techniques in India. Credit: Michael Major/Crop Trust

What a Rancher Rebellion Means for California’s Water

By Rachel Becker, CalMatters

September 2, 2022

Jim Scala, a rancher in Siskiyou County, looks out over his dry stock pond in Montague on Aug. 29, 2022. Scala and others defied a state order to stop pumping water from the Shasta River. (Photo credit: Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters)

This Anti-Capitalist Café Is Creating a New Approach to Work

By Mike De Socio, YES! Magazine

August 26, 2022

Cafe Euphoria in Troy, New York. (Photo credit: Cafe Euphoria)

A New Bill Could Hold Fast Food Chains Accountable for Employee Wage Theft

By Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters

August 19, 2022

A fast food chain worker hands a beverage to a driver at a drive-through; California may pass a law to prevent wage theft by fast food chains.

Op-ed: To Fight the Drought, Cities Should Pay Farmers to Get Smarter About Irrigation

By Robert Glennon, The Conversation

July 14, 2022

A farm worker carries an irrigation pipe on November 17, 2016 in San Luis, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

How Foreign Private Equity Hooked New England’s Fishing Industry

By Will Sennott, New Bedford Light

July 8, 2022

A fisherman emptying a net after a haul of seafood in Massachusetts.

Op-ed: With Food Prices on the Rise, Is a ‘Bean New Deal’ the Answer?

By Matthew Miles Goodrich, The Nation

July 1, 2022

A man working in the garden planting beans and legumes

A New Bill Aims to Ban Mergers in Ag and Food Sectors

By Bryce Oates, Daily Yonder

June 14, 2022

Combine and Grain Wagon

Indigenous Agroforestry Dying of Thirst Amid a Sea of Avocados in Mexico

By Monica Pelliccia, Mongabay

June 10, 2022

A Growing Movement to Reclaim Water Rights for Indigenous People

By Kayla Devault, YES! Magazine

June 3, 2022

The Chacoan Great House of Pueblo Bonito from above the desert of New Mexico in Chaco Canyon

California Water Regulators in the Dark on Oil Field Wastewater Risks

By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News

May 27, 2022

Pump jacks operate next to a vineyard in Kern County, the heart of California's oil industry. (Photo credit: Liza Gross)

California Farmers and Cattle Ranchers Struggle to Survive Unprecedented Water Cuts

By Rachel Becker, CalMatters

May 26, 2022

The drought has stunted grasses that Josh Davy's cattle usually feed on so he prepares hay for them at his ranch near Red Bluff. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

Seaboard Meatpacking Plant Must Address Workers’ Repetitive Motion Injuries

By Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest

May 23, 2022

meatpacking plant worker lifting a heavy piece of meat onto the cutting surface in a meatpacking plant

NYC Street Food Vendors: ‘We’re Not Hurting Anyone’

By Max Rivlin-Nadler, Hell Gate

May 13, 2022

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 07: People gather for a rally held in support of street vendors targeted by NYPD in Hudson Yards in Manhattan on May 07, 2021 in New York City. Various organizations and elected officials along with street vendors gathered to speak about the alleged targeting of street vendors by NYPD, who Mayor Bill de Blasio had announced would no longer oversee street vendor enforcement. In January, City Council passed Intro 1116, a bill that lifted the permit cap for street vendors by 4,000 permits for the first time since the 1980s. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Oregon Adopts Nation’s Strongest Farmworker Protections for Heat and Wildfire Smoke

By Lynne Terry, Oregon Capital Chronicle

May 12, 2022

Farmworkers in the field in high heat and wildfire smoke

$1,000 a Month for Farmworkers? Proposed Payments Aim to Help Amid Drought

By Melissa Montalvo, CalMatters

April 29, 2022

MESA, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Agricultural laborers pick lemons inside the orchards of Samag Services, Inc, where they grow Avocado, Lemons and Oranges. The bottom has fallen out of the Avocado market as restaurants close during this period of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Agricultural workers have become essential workers in the race to maintain Americas food supply while simultaneously staying healthy. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.)

US Farmland Increasingly Controlled by Foreign Investment

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

April 22, 2022

The Trickle-Down Effect of Agriculture in Iowa

By Charlie Hope-D'Anieri, Sierra Magazine

April 15, 2022

A soybean farm being harvested in Rippey, Iowa. (Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)