Conservationists have long worried about the effects of subsistence hunting on animal populations in the Amazon. But species resilience and local knowledge complicate the story.

Did enslaved people contribute more than solely their labor to the success of rice plantations in the New World? In pursuit of the answer, one researcher is extracting little bits of memoir trapped inside rice grains.

Food rations sustain refugees, but what’s missing is fulfillment and a sense of home.

Big bayou families knew cooking and sharing food could help them cope after disaster struck, but the recovery machine got in the way, creating a second, less visible crisis.

Scientists and activists battle over the pros and cons of genetically modified organisms. In the midst of this heated debate, important voices have been lost.

The current kale craze in the United States might sound downright crazy to East Africans.

Lands donated to former refugees provide stability and nourishment—not only in the food that is grown but through the community that’s taken root.

A couple of young gringo anthropologists adjust to village life in Oaxaca, Mexico. They start with a wedding—and the food.

A bomb clearance team in Laos eagerly buys bush meat from local hunters. Then they realize they’re eating threatened and endangered species.

Anorexia is not just about striving for an idealized body image. It is an obsessive, relentless—and futile—quest to be pure, perfect, and clean.