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Lack of opportunities to pump at work, common among restaurant and food-industry workers, is a problem with life-or-death repercussions during an ongoing formula shortage.

With low pay, long hours, and job insecurity, food and farm workers often abandon breastfeeding when they return to work soon after a baby is born. This makes them especially vulnerable to the formula shortage—with life-or-death repercussions.

Martinez is giving her attention to focus on human rights, more specifically, undocumented workers.

Millions of taxpayer dollars are designated to improve our soils and water quality, but the reverse is happening.

The three skilled journalists will help Civil Eats expand and deepen its coverage of the American food system.

Only a handful of nations export food and even fewer international trading firms handle those exports.

These three levels of continuing concentration — too few exportable food choices from too few international sources handled by too few, secretive merchandisers — all but guarantees any minor food access problem anywhere in the world soon becomes a major food access problem everywhere in the world.

Davos Man emerged from his bulletproof, bombproof office to report all was well in the world of intergalactic finance and handmade shoes.

We sat down with the Secretary of Agriculture to learn about the agency’s priorities around nutrition security, climate action, and equity. Plus: more news from a busy week at the USDA.

Author Nancy Matsumoto discusses heirloom rice varieties, climate change impacts on the sake industry, and why it may be on the verge of an international renaissance.