Arpita Bhattacharjya
@greenfork.bsky.social
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Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
February 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Today is publication day! I explain how agricultural inputs - which weren't even widely traded market goods 200 years ago - have become giant industries dominated by just a handful of transnational firms today.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255170...
Many thanks to those who helped me along the way!
No Relief Yet - It's Getting Worse - for U.S. Farmers Pummeled Under Trump 2.0
open.substack.com/pub/farmerge...
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No Relief Yet - It's Getting Worse - for U.S. Farmers Pummeled Under Trump 2.0
This Week's Victim? The USDA.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
No Relief Yet - It's Getting Worse - for U.S. Farmers Pummeled Under Trump 2.0
open.substack.com/pub/farmerge...
open.substack.com/pub/farmerge...
"The next task .... will be to maintain the gains of the past for all these new people while preserving the environment for the future. The task for everyone else will be to learn enough about the food system to help them do it." www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
www.thenewatlantis.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"The next task .... will be to maintain the gains of the past for all these new people while preserving the environment for the future. The task for everyone else will be to learn enough about the food system to help them do it." www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses wapo.st/4hP0ELY
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
wapo.st
February 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses wapo.st/4hP0ELY
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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Maybe @tomphilpott.bsky.social is right that RFK Jr. is an unhinged conspiracy nut who happens to have sensible ideas about food. But I would argue, and I think Occam’s Razor would back me, that a lot of his food ideas are nutty too.
www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...
www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...
January 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Maybe @tomphilpott.bsky.social is right that RFK Jr. is an unhinged conspiracy nut who happens to have sensible ideas about food. But I would argue, and I think Occam’s Razor would back me, that a lot of his food ideas are nutty too.
www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...
www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...
So now that Google maps is going into fictional territory, what other app can we use?
January 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So now that Google maps is going into fictional territory, what other app can we use?
Publish the ERA today!
Facing near-certain defeat, members of the Young Feminist Party are picketing outside the White House as part of a broader effort to get the Equal Rights Amendment published before Trump takes office.
'Protect us': Young people urge Biden to add women and LGBTQ+ people to the Constitution
Facing near-certain defeat, members of the Young Feminist Party are picketing outside the White House as part of a broader effort to get the Equal Rights Amendment published before Trump takes office.
19thnews.org
January 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Publish the ERA today!
Eggplant is a part of daily meals in South Asia but farmers saw huge losses from the EFSB pest. Bt eggplant has reduced insecticide spraying, use has gone down by 61%. Impact: 6% increase in net income, 21% increase in gross revenue,19% higher yield:
bteggplant.cornell.edu/bt-eggplant/
bteggplant.cornell.edu/bt-eggplant/
Bt Eggplant - Feed the Future Insect-Resistant Eggplant Partnership
bteggplant.cornell.edu
January 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Eggplant is a part of daily meals in South Asia but farmers saw huge losses from the EFSB pest. Bt eggplant has reduced insecticide spraying, use has gone down by 61%. Impact: 6% increase in net income, 21% increase in gross revenue,19% higher yield:
bteggplant.cornell.edu/bt-eggplant/
bteggplant.cornell.edu/bt-eggplant/
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A big win for US on the issue of GMO corn in its dispute with Mexico!
www.agdaily.com/news/us-got-...
www.agdaily.com/news/us-got-...
NCGA says U.S. got a big win in GMO corn dispute with Mexico | AGDAILY
NCGA reported that a dispute panel ruled that Mexico violated its commitments under USMCA when it issued a decree that banned GMO corn imports.
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December 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM
A big win for US on the issue of GMO corn in its dispute with Mexico!
www.agdaily.com/news/us-got-...
www.agdaily.com/news/us-got-...
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Farm subsidies are on the table, so I'll continue my one-woman crusade to convince you that subsidies ...
CAN change farmer practices to protect the environment
CAN'T change American diets www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/12...
CAN change farmer practices to protect the environment
CAN'T change American diets www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/12...
December 19, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Farm subsidies are on the table, so I'll continue my one-woman crusade to convince you that subsidies ...
CAN change farmer practices to protect the environment
CAN'T change American diets www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/12...
CAN change farmer practices to protect the environment
CAN'T change American diets www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/12...
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I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.
Former BLS commissioner Erica Groshen on how the policy change to Schedule F that Trump & #Project2025 advocate would destroy the credibility of the federal statistical system.
Her comment on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/posts/erica-...
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Her comment on LinkedIn
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December 19, 2024 at 1:50 PM
I've been warning about this for a while. Sooner than you think U.S. economists may have to go Argentine, cobbling together alternative estimates of inflation, employment and so on because the official data have been corrupted.
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December 16, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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@AquaBountyFarms — a sad victim of needless, onerous regulation & orchestrated GMO opposition — Announces Plans to Cease Fish Farming Operations finance.yahoo.com/news/aquabou...
AquaBounty Announces Plans to Cease Fish Farming Operations
Harvard, Massachusetts--(Newsfile Corp. - December 11, 2024) - The Board of Directors of AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQB) ("AquaBounty," "we," "our" or the "Company") today announced that t...
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December 13, 2024 at 11:28 PM
@AquaBountyFarms — a sad victim of needless, onerous regulation & orchestrated GMO opposition — Announces Plans to Cease Fish Farming Operations finance.yahoo.com/news/aquabou...
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Important piece by @mikegrunwald.bsky.social. Food systems convos can get polarized between “boost yields” vs “reduce env. harms” vs “change consumption patterns.” The reality, as this piece describes, is that the 🌎 needs to do it all to feed 9-10 billion people while protecting nature & climate.
Opinion | Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food (Gift Article)
Every farm, even the scenic ones with red barns and rolling hills, is a kind of environmental crime scene, an echo of whatever wilderness it once replaced.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Important piece by @mikegrunwald.bsky.social. Food systems convos can get polarized between “boost yields” vs “reduce env. harms” vs “change consumption patterns.” The reality, as this piece describes, is that the 🌎 needs to do it all to feed 9-10 billion people while protecting nature & climate.
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Ya not so many undocumented workers are in crops. Now mostly dairy and slaughterhouses. Been like this for at least 20 but really post deregulation in the 1980s then+
December 10, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Ya not so many undocumented workers are in crops. Now mostly dairy and slaughterhouses. Been like this for at least 20 but really post deregulation in the 1980s then+
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Tomato workers use these 5 gallon buckets to pick tomatoes that when full weigh approximatley 21 pounds. They carry these, 2 buckets at a time to the trailer, dump them and start all over. This is done over and over in their 6 hour day. #WeFeedYou
December 6, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Tomato workers use these 5 gallon buckets to pick tomatoes that when full weigh approximatley 21 pounds. They carry these, 2 buckets at a time to the trailer, dump them and start all over. This is done over and over in their 6 hour day. #WeFeedYou
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Quite incredible that being anti science is so lucrative.
And you literally have nothing to do except denigrate other people’s hard work… so easy.
And you literally have nothing to do except denigrate other people’s hard work… so easy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made over $20,000 per week as chairman of Children’s Health Defense before stepping away from the nonprofit in 2023 to run for president, new tax filings show.
www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/r...
www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/r...
RFK Jr. was paid six figures by his vaccine-challenging group before presidential run
Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit that has challenged vaccines, doubled Kennedy's pay rate for a shorter tenure.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Quite incredible that being anti science is so lucrative.
And you literally have nothing to do except denigrate other people’s hard work… so easy.
And you literally have nothing to do except denigrate other people’s hard work… so easy.
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Public sector scientists who are subject-matter experts willing to defend agricultural innovations have frequently become the target of online attacks and harassment campaigns, often intended to silence their voice.
biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2024/12/01/a...
biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2024/12/01/a...
A decade since IQ2 GM Food Debate – Biobeef Blog
biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu
December 4, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Public sector scientists who are subject-matter experts willing to defend agricultural innovations have frequently become the target of online attacks and harassment campaigns, often intended to silence their voice.
biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2024/12/01/a...
biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2024/12/01/a...
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Maria starts her day at 6am picking apples in Merced CA. She climbs up and down the ladder carrying a nylon sack that can weigh up to 50 pounds at a time. #WeFeedYou
December 5, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Maria starts her day at 6am picking apples in Merced CA. She climbs up and down the ladder carrying a nylon sack that can weigh up to 50 pounds at a time. #WeFeedYou
There is a widespread resistance to engaging with facts at the moment, which is being exploited for power and profit by some. People would rather listen to someone who has no experience or actual work in this area. It is indeed all about “going against” , rather than a considered position
December 4, 2024 at 6:06 PM
There is a widespread resistance to engaging with facts at the moment, which is being exploited for power and profit by some. People would rather listen to someone who has no experience or actual work in this area. It is indeed all about “going against” , rather than a considered position
The future with tariffs: “In just one high-profile example, the tariffs would raise the price of avocados less than three weeks before the Super Bowl — one of the biggest guacamole-eating days of the year. “ www.npr.org/2024/11/26/n...
Trump's tariffs may be targeted at others -- but they could impact you too
President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap hefty tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico. Those tariffs would hurt America too — if they are carried out.
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November 27, 2024 at 12:21 AM
The future with tariffs: “In just one high-profile example, the tariffs would raise the price of avocados less than three weeks before the Super Bowl — one of the biggest guacamole-eating days of the year. “ www.npr.org/2024/11/26/n...
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Model solves for new U.S. consumer prices for all products. Here are products with US price increases >2%, up to 13%. Lots of industrial inputs & food products, unsurprisingly given CAN/MEX/PRC imports. Model doesn't have input-output linkages, so prices for downstream products may rise more. 2/3
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Model solves for new U.S. consumer prices for all products. Here are products with US price increases >2%, up to 13%. Lots of industrial inputs & food products, unsurprisingly given CAN/MEX/PRC imports. Model doesn't have input-output linkages, so prices for downstream products may rise more. 2/3
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The study of heirloom plants is a study of history, geography, and botany.
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Heirloom Plants Tell Stories of History & Heritage — Cindy Heath
Tales and trails following pioneer gardens. I love plants — observing them, caring for them, and even eating them. In fact, my husband at the time, once told me, “I don’t know why you even need a...
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November 17, 2024 at 1:45 AM
The study of heirloom plants is a study of history, geography, and botany.
🌱🌿
www.cindyheathwrites.com/lets-eat/hei...