All food resources
Report
Cultivating Control
Between 2019 and 2023, "Big Ag" spent over half a billion dollars to influence food policies that are bad for people and the environment.
Report
Waste Deep
Water pollutants from Tyson Foods' meat processing plants pose a risk to both people and the environment.
Activist Resource
How Long Has The Farm Bill Been Expired?
Congress has let the once-every-five years food and farm bill expire—but the 332 million people in the US still need to eat.
Explainer
What’s Wrong with Fossil Fuel–Based Fertilizer?
Massive overapplication of nitrogen fertilizer in agriculture damages soil, causes pollution, and contributes to climate change.
Report
Cropland Repurposing in California
Cropland repurposing in California informed by communities and science can provide social, environmental, and economic benefits for all stakeholders.
Explainer
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Attacks on SNAP are rooted in persistent, divisive myths about the program. Here are the facts.
Report
Lost Inheritance
Unless the legal issue known as heirs' property is resolved, Black farmers will continue to lose their land.
Explainer
The Food and Farm Bill
The massive piece of legislation commonly referred to as the “farm bill” should really be called the “food and farm bill” because of its key role in how we eat.
Report
Investing in US Farmworker Health
The people whose work puts food on our tables face a variety of hazards in their jobs, but research that would help protect their health is severely underfunded by the US government.
Report
Understanding Perceived Climate Risks to Household Water Supply
A peer-reviewed article from Climatic Change.
Feature
2022 Annual Report
How did UCS perform over the last year?
Podcast
Progress Toward a Healthy Food System
Food and agriculture expert Karen Perry Stillerman unpacks provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act