2016 Awards Dinner
2015 Awards Dinner
The National Press Foundation and more than 950 of our friends celebrated the best in journalism at our annual awards dinner on Feb. 18. Our award winners represented the best of well-known news organizations like ABC News and Bloomberg News as well as newly minted online news sites like Re/code and BuzzFeed News. The synergy of new and old created…
Solving Agriculture’s 5 Main Problems
Feeding The World The world’s population will double by 2050. While that seems far away, the race to figure out how to feed 10 billion people is under way today. Just in the United States, farmers who make up less than 1 percent of the population are responsible for feeding 319 million Americans. Two important innovations in agriculture are helping…
The Economics of Agriculture
Farms, By The Numbers Today there are 2.1 million farms in the U.S., feeding a population of 319 million. That’s down from 6.5 million at the peak a century ago when the population barely topped 100 million. What changed? The size of farms, which averaged less than 200 acres a century ago and now run close to 500 acres. “There’s…
