STEWARD

Resource List: Agriculture, Food, Environment, Healthcare, and Nutrition

This page will continually be updated - feel free to bookmark and check back periodically for new recommendations. Links marked with an * indicate particularly illuminating articles or tools I've appreciated. Italicized links are books.

 - updated on 14 August 2026 - 

Agriculture

Here's How America Uses Its Land*
How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers
There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared? 

Environment (Climate Change and Planetary Health)

Anthropocene Magazine 
The Lancet (2020): The neglected environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods
National Academies of Science (2018): Sustainable Diets
Waterbear 

Faith and Food

Finding Hope, Ending Hunger on Both Sides of the Border: A Bilingual Latino Devotional 
Hunger is a Health Issue 
When Populations Become the Patient 

Food Justice and Community Power

McDonald's, Food Justice, and the Problem with Black Capitalism 
The Praxis Learning Center (Social Determinants of Health Equity and Communities Building Power for Health) 
Urban Food Justice 

Global Health

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and... Supremacy, Neo-Colonialism, and International Development
Toxic Charity*
When Helping Hurts

Migration

Ingredients for a new life: how cooking helps refugees and migrants blend in 
Resettling Main Street: Refugees bring revitalization to some of America’s small cities 

Nutrition

School Meal Programs Around the World Report (Global Child Nutrition Foundation)
The Lancet (2020): Affordability of the EAT-Lancet reference diet: a global analysis
What to Eat (Marion Nestle)

Policy

CivilEats 
Duke Healthy Eating Research
Food Politics (Marion Nestle) 
Food Research Action Center 
Politico: Weekly Agriculture 
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health 

Social Documentary Photography

Amnesty International: General Photographic Principles
The Conversation: Images of Suffering Can Bring About Change, But Are They Ethical?
Researching Cultural Aspects of Food Sovereignty
Save the Children: The People in the Pictures