While attending a school set up to train the next generation of haenyeo divers, one woman grapples with the historical and ongoing complexities of maintaining the traditional practice.
Nearly forty years after the Pol Pot time, Cambodia’s landscape testifies to a tumultuous past and hints at an uncertain environmental future.
Fresh perspectives on fertilizer use and victory gardens reveal complex connections between business, the state, and the natural environment.
A writer’s poignant reflections on care and healing. What might happen if we all turned toward, instead of away?
When the National Canners Association and the US Bureau of Fisheries write the recipes, Americans learn to serve Jello Salad and Tilefish for dinner.
Two recipes drawn from research reveal how cookbook authors believed natural food had the ability to withstand physical, moral, and social degradation.
Stressing intimacy, structures of power, social justice, and action, food studies is giving interdisciplinarity a good name.
October 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
For 40 years California’s Emerald Triangle has provided the one critical environmental factor required to grow cannabis: isolation. That’s about to change.
Activists gather at a summit over factory farm expansion, offering an economic vision based on the value of clean water.
