Rachel Laudan

    The New York Times a couple of days ago had a long and well researched article on the slowing of Mexican migration to the United States. Yeah. Mexican is getting wealthier.  In fact Mexico is now 80% urban, something that has a lot to do with this.  Peasants eking out a living on [...]

I’ve edited this piece, added a few things, and changed the title. Wikipedia has a short and clear article on agribusiness, contrasting two ways in which it is used. The first is neutral. Within the agriculture industry, agribusiness is widely used simply as a convenient portmanteau of agriculture and business, referring to the range of [...]

It’s a cliché that farm subsidies benefit large farmers at the expense of small farmers.  Now along comes Mike Smith of Truth in Food to offer a new way of looking at subsidies.  And anything that challenges a cliché is good with me if it’s based on evidence. As the chart below shows, while it’s [...]