LibGuides: EVST 3998 -- Agriculture, Food, and Justice: Background Information

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Resources for exploring and choosing a topic for your research paper or speech

Civil Eats
Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.
The Counter
The Counter, formerly known as The New Food Economy, is an award-winning non-profit newsroom using independent, deep, and unbiased reporting to investigate the forces shaping how and what we eat.
ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
The latest research news.
CityLab
Five areas of urban coverage—design, transportation, environment, equity, and life—as well as a new Solutions hub to collect the best ideas and stories for an urbanizing world.
Environment News - The New York Times
Commentary and archival information about the environment from The New York Times.
EurekaAlert!
Climate Change News
Climate Feedback
A group of scientists who vet mainstream reporting on climate change. They use web annotation software to highlight online evidence, attach notes to the highlights, and discuss the cited passages on the open web.
Google Alert
Set a Google Alert for news on your topic. This will help you become more current your topic and learn about public discourse on your topic.

Finding background information at the beginning of your research will help you find pertinent scholarly sources and write a more convincing argument.

Gale E-books
Subjects: MANY
Description: General e-book collection from Gale Cengage Learning containing full text.
Contents: eBooks; Encyclopedias.