Hunts Point is the country’s largest wholesale produce market and it’s in the South Bronx. Workers there voted to strike on Sunday, January 17th. This past Saturday, after six days on the picket line, they popped champagne to celebrate their agreement with management on a new contract. As they return...

Is it possible to eat a nutritious, healthy diet on a budget? Is healthy food too expensive, or too cheap? These are the big questions on this week's episode of Eating Matters with host Kim Kessler and co-host Jenna Liut. With these concerns creating fault lines among food advocates, some...

On this edition of It's More Than Food, Michel Nischan is talking about the role of immigration in agriculture and our food system. Michel invites two people who work with immigrant and refugee populations onto the show- Larry Laverentz and Ellee Igoe. Larry Laverentz has administered the Refugee Agricultural Partnership...

Beverly Bell discusses food sovereignty in the book she co-authored, Harvesting Justice. This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks talks with Beverly about the need to democratize the food system so it serves social interests and not those of corporations. Tune in to learn about food aid, and how...

On this installment of It's More Than Food, Michel Nischan is talking genetically-modified crops with Scott Faber and Fred Kaufman. Scott Faber leads a team working to improve food and farm legislation, chemicals policy and a host of other issues important to EWG and its supporters. Prior to joining EWG...

Food insecurity, obesity, diabetes, hunger, and federal food assistance- these are the topics of the day on It's More Than Food. In the debut episode, host Michel Nischan is talking with two guests about food access. Lori Silverbush is the Co-director of the A Place at the Table, a film...

Danielle Nierenberg, an expert on sustainable agriculture, currently serves as Project Director of the Nourishing the Planet project for the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based environmental think tank. She recently spent a year traveling to more than 25 countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Asia looking at environmentally sustainable ways of...

Today on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks calls up Jim Gerritsen of Wood Prairie Farm, and President of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association. OSGATA has recently been involved in a lawsuit against Monsanto in order to protect the rights of organic growers that choose not to use genetically...

This episode of Flash Talks Cash is for those of you who are looking to buy your first home! JoAnn "Flash" Fleming and Andrew Newman are joined today by Josh Steinhart, a New York City school teacher and newlywed looking to buy a home in Brooklyn. Tune in to hear...

Greg Asbed is a Co-Founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a worker-based human rights organization. He works with farmworkers and their student, labor, and religious allies to organize the national Campaign for Fair Food, a breakthrough worker-based approach to corporate accountability in the agricultural industry known for its...