Topic on the Beat: The Food System [1]
Top Food Stories From SEJournal
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Updated October 2026
Issue Backgrounder
TipSheets
- Oysters, Boisterous or Scarce, Fuel Local Environment Stories [3]
- Chronic Wasting Disease May Be Stalking Deer Hunters [4]
- The Polar Vortex Portends … the Planting of Seeds? [5]
- Could Beef Be the Route to a Bird Flu Pandemic? [6]
- Farmers Markets Offer Many Local Environmental Stories [7]
- Want Pesticides With That Kale? [8]
- Follow Fish Advisories To Catch Local Stories [9]
Toolboxes
- Grazing Data Unlocks Public Land Stories [10]
- Crop Cover Database Seeds Local Environment Coverage [11]
- ‘Endangered’ USGS Pesticide Database Shows Wide Chemical Impact [12]
- Data on Pesticide Incidents Openly Available for First Time [13]
- Pesticide Data Can Ground Food and Farm Stories [14]
- Consumption Advisories Offer Fistful of Fish Tales [15]
Freelance Files
Features
- Six Ways To Cover the Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture [17]
- Eat Local for Climate’s Sake? No, Eat Less Meat [18]
- Tilling the Storytelling Fields on the Food, Ag and Environment Beat [19]
- Fill Your Plate With Chicken Stories [20]
- U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [21]
Inside Story Q&A
- Catch-22 on the Baltic — Twilight of Poland’s Coastal Fisherman [22]
- High-Risk Reporting Yields Results on Palm Oil Investigation [23]
EJ Academy
FEJ StoryLog
BookShelf
- The Cost of Losing Our ‘Sacred Acres’ [26]
- The Bounty of the Gift Economy [27]
- How a Distant Chapter in Spice Trade Foretells Today’s Climate Chaos [28]
- “Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, With a Guide to Plants and Recipes” [29]
- “Diet for a Changing Climate: Food for Thought” [30]
All Food Stories From SEJournal [31] All Food Headlines From EJToday [32]
Return to Topics on the Beat main page [33]
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