Buying from your nearby farmer's market offers a number of important benefits. Environmental sustainability and local economic growth are not among them, according to a new review of the evidence. If ...

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Research supports several benefits associated with local food systems, although not without nuances and controversy. These benefits include their ability to reconnect consumers and producers, ...

September 28, 1958—A Sunday comic strip by Gene Fawcett envisions a future of farming in which “fat plants” and “meat beets” are used to cut down on the amount of farmland devoted to cattle pasture.

In tourist hotspots like Aruba, fast food chains dominate the landscape—but local food isn’t gone, just often overlooked. Here’s what that reveals about how we travel. I didn’t think of myself as a ...

Dave Dinesen is the CEO of CubicFarms, a local-chain agtech company specializing in automated, commercial-scale indoor farming technology. New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, London — all major cities ...

Food Lion is bringing local produce even closer to home with its continually expanding Local Goodness program. Part of Ahold Delhaize, the Salisbury, N.C.-based grocer with more than 1,000 stores in ...