Tag: Robert Paarlberg

  • Health

    Is organic better?

    Not if you follow the evidence, researcher says

    2–4 minutes
    Produce line supermarket shelves.
  • Campus & Community

    The quote machine

    Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.

    18–27 minutes
    Toni Morrison, Amanda Gorman, Paul Farmer, Jill Lepore, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Annette Gordon Reed, Drew Faust, Gish Jen.
  • Health

    Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it, author says

    An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

    12–19 minutes
    Vegetables.
  • Nation & World

    In the end, Somali famine preventable

    Despite historical links to natural disasters, the modern world’s global food web means that famines today are created more by man than by nature. Officials say a famine just ending in Somalia was caused by a failure of international early warning systems and the local Al-Shabaab militia blocking food aid.

    4–6 minutes