Family farms still provide 90 percent of U.S. agricultural output, and these include giant conventional farms as well as very small farms where the primary farmworker has a primary source of income aside from working the land.

More people than ever suffer diet-related maladies. Global agricultural practices and food storage and distribution systems are over-extended even as population continues to grow and demands for a middle-class "Western" diet take hold among large popul...

What's the most staged fruit on Instagram? What's the California State Fruit? What's a new word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary? What grows along California's Avocado Highway? - It's popular now, and not just in California.

  - Robert Flick, an American who committed much of his career to international aid and development, now runs an 80-acre diversified farm -- Finca El Milagro -- in the Andean foothills near Ibarra, Ecuador. - He and Bachi, his Ecuadoran wife,

As we discussed in Episodes 29 and 30, Rudolph Hass planted and nurtured the amazing avocado cultivar that bears his name. Equally important though less well known in the avocado story was an erstwhile stalwart of the California Avocado Society, A. R.

The dashing, swashbuckling, privateer hero is to Captain Morgan Rum as the benevolent-looking Quaker Man is to Quaker Oats -- a valuable brand identifier. - Henry Morgan did indeed ply the waters of the Caribbean in the 17th century.

What better way to kick off the The Food Disruptors' first episode of 2019 than with a talk about (and tasting of) rum? More properly, rhum, as this spirit is denoted in its native land of the French West Indies. - Tristan Mermin,

More this week from Alison Mountford of Ends + Stems, a Food Disruptor leading a bottom-up approach to ending food waste. Amazingly, the slightest change in attitude about what constitutes "good" food can help feed many hungry people AND drive agricult...

40 percent of food produced in the United States is wasted (including food loss). This is a statistic almost as ubiquitous today as Mason jars. People are paying attention because food waste is such a big contributor to climate change and food injustic...

Herbert Hoover vaulted to what may have been the most powerful position in the world in 1914 when he traded an extremely lucrative career as a mine operator for a career in public service. World War I  brought Europe to its knees by decimating its food...