I]n recent years, the big packaged food brands that dominated American pantries and refrigerators for decades are struggling as consumers spend less on brand-name cookies, spaghetti sauce and ...

FERN’s Friday Feed is taking a break this week, but we still wanted to make a few reading recommendations – and let you know about a cool event we were part of. Last week, FERN’s ...

Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had created a paradox of plenty in the nation’s agricultural system: environmentally destructive overproduction of a few major food ...

The Food & Environment Reporting Network is the first independent, non-profit news organization that produces in-depth and investigative journalism in the critically under-reported areas of food, ...

Eight years ago, when I first started to pitch publishers on the idea of a cookbook about fish in cans, the response was a resounding, diplomatically phrased iteration of ‘Ew.’ … One ...

We released the newest episode of Forked, our podcast on food politics and policy, earlier this week. It tries to reckon with what the One Big Beautiful Act — heretofore known as OBBA — will mean for ...

FERN and Bloomberg Businessweek “Rising temperatures in the Mediterranean ha [ve] rendered olive oil scarcer than it had been in recent memory,” writes Lauren Markham, and as prices have risen, so ...

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