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Tom Philpott

  • Senior Research Associate, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
Baltimore, North Carolina
As seen in: Medium, Bloomberg CityLab, WIRED Magazine, BITE (Podcast), Mother Jones, Grist, The New Republic, BillMoyers.com, RealClear Markets
Research associate, @livablefuture. Author, Perilous Bounty. Co-host of Unconfined. clf.jhsph.edu/unconfined-pod
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How Trump’s big bill devestates the US food system

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By Tom Philpott
| Mother Jones Verified
This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. Even before Donald Trump retook the White House, US policymakers had created a paradox of plenty in the nation’s agricultural system: environmentally destructive overproduction of a few major food commodities, combined with stubbornly high and rising hunger rates, particularly among children.
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This ancient practice could help revitalize America’s corn belt

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By Tom Philpott
| Mother Jones Verified
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Drive through rural Minnesota in high summer and you’ll take in a view that dominates nearly the entire US Midwest: an emerald sea of ripening corn and soybeans. But on a small operation called Salvatierra, 40 minutes south of Minneapolis, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin is trying something different.
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Farmers Could Be the Nation’s Leading Environmentalists

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By Tom Philpott
| Mother Jones Verified
The farm bill is one of the most important but least understood pieces of US legislation, and it’s overdue for renewal. But Congress couldn’t pass a new version in the fall, reflecting partisan dysfunction and also a contentious debate about what the bill ought to be—a debate that has become ensnared in the nation’s culture wars.
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