Food & Agriculture

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The Great Dome at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Democratizing American Higher Education: The Legacy of the Morrill Land Grant Act
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Cover of Famine: A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Famine: A Short History
Children eating a meal as part of the School Lunch program at a classroom in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton is present for an event to launch International School Meals Day on March 8, 2013. The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens.
Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago
In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
"Freedom From Want" - NARA poster 1943
The Spirit of 1947: This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.
Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?
Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio c. 1920.
The National Park Service Explores the History of Farm Labor in America
Vegetables from ecological farming.
Bringing Democrats and Republicans Together over Food
A collection of packaged food items.
Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
Ration distribution point.
The Other War in Pakistan
man with giant crab
A Tale of Two Fisheries: Fishing and Over-Fishing in American Waters
United States soldier distributes food aid to a Afghanistan province
Food for Peace Must Remain an American Priority
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains
Why the Great Plains Are Dying
This photo shows Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR), which was transported from bases in the U.S. and air dropped to regions of Afghanistan where the displaced people are at risk of starvation.
Democracy’s Vital Ingredient — Food
Image of Adonis on a red-figure squat lekythos.
Easter: A Season of Renewal