Agriculture Word List

AGRICULTURE

 Human food systems transforming planet

WATCH

1. Food Inc. — Robert Kenner, 2008 · Documentary · The industrial food system exposed; who profits and who pays.

2. The Biggest Little Farm — John Chester, 2018 · Documentary · A couple rebuilding a biodiverse farm from depleted land; hopeful and practical.

3. Fantastic Fungi — Louie Schwartzberg, 2019 · Documentary · The underground network sustaining all agricultural life.

4. Kiss the Ground — Josh Tickell & Rebecca Harrell Tickell, 2020 · Documentary · Regenerative agriculture as a solution to climate change.

5. Rotten — Netflix, 2018– · Series · The corruption, fraud, and human cost inside global food supply chains.

6. The Farmer and the Machine — Various, 2022 · Documentary · Technology and agriculture; who controls the seeds and the data.

7. Seeds of Time — Sandy McLeod, 2013 · Documentary · The race to preserve crop diversity before monoculture destroys it.

8. Farmland — James Moll, 2014 · Documentary · Young American farmers navigating industrial agriculture’s pressures.

9. Fresh — Ana Sofia Joanes, 2009 · Documentary · Farmers and activists rebuilding a sustainable food system from the ground up.

10. The Future of Food — Deborah Koons Garcia, 2004 · Documentary · GMOs, corporate control, and the politics of what we eat.

LISTEN

1. Gastropod — Cynthia Graber & Nicola Twilley · Food history and science; agriculture as culture and politics.

2. The Farm Report — Heritage Radio Network · Farmers, food systems, and agricultural policy in conversation.

3. Sustainable World Radio — Jill Cloutier · Regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty globally.

4. Farming for the Long Run — Various · Long-view conversations on sustainable agricultural practice.

5. The Splendid Table — Lynne Rossetto Kasper · Food culture and agriculture from field to table.

6. We Feed People — Ron Howard, soundtrack · The National Geographic documentary’s companion listening.

7. Harvest Public Media — Various · Agricultural journalism from America’s heartland.

8. Future of Food — Civil Eats podcast · Policy, justice, and the future of how humans feed themselves.

9. Dirt — Yale Environment 360 · Soil science and why the ground beneath farming is in crisis.

10. Hidden Brain: Food episodes — Shankar Vedantam · The psychology and culture of how we eat and grow food.

READ

1. The Omnivore’s Dilemma — Michael Pollan · Four meals traced to their origins; essential food system literacy.

2. Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer · Indigenous botanical knowledge and a different way of relating to the land.

3. The Unsettling of America — Wendell Berry · Agriculture, culture, and what industrial farming has cost us spiritually and ecologically.

4. Dirt to Soil — Gabe Brown · A farmer’s journey from conventional to regenerative agriculture.

5. The Fate of Food — Amanda Little · Reporting on how humanity will feed itself in a warming world.

6. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle — Barbara Kingsolver · A family’s year of eating only locally grown food; personal and political.

7. Growing a Revolution — David Montgomery · Soil science and the case for regenerative farming.

8. Farmers of Forty Centuries — F.H. King · A 1911 study of Asian farming practices that sustained land for millennia.

9. The Land Grabbers — Fred Pearce · How corporations and governments are seizing farmland from smallholders globally.

10. Stolen Harvest — Vandana Shiva · Seed sovereignty and the corporate takeover of agriculture.