When Barack Obama chooses his agriculture secretary, we need a bold reformer in a position renamed “secretary of food.”

With a $500,000 “genius grant” awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Will Allen of Growing Power, in Milwaukee, hopes to take his farm off the grid.

It used to be, an egg was an egg, but now the incredible, edible egg is becoming unintelligible.

Over the past few years, farmers and millers have begun restoring wheat fields and reviving flour mills around the country.

A gathering in San Francisco last weekend was a sort of coming-out party for Slow Food U.S.A., a 10-year-old group that links the pleasures of food with community and environmental activism.

As food prices soar, the improbable business of buying and reforming collective farms has attracted financiers.

The Slow Food faithful say they want a Labor Day festival, ambitiously named Slow Food Nation, to be the Woodstock of food.

The idea of a “vertical farm” has captured the imagination of several architects and city planners who envision skyscrapers as farms.

Norman T. Uphoff is leading an inconspicuous revolution centered on solving the global food crisis.

Food riots are breaking out abroad but Americans toss a lot of their food in the garbage.