In this episode of Unconfined, Michelle Hughes despairs over federal funding freezes for land- access programs and rebounds with an optimistic vision for the long-term future in which young farmers regenerate not only soil, but the industry as a whole. 

In this episode of Unconfined, author Michael Grunwald and host Tom Philpott grapple with the future of food in a warming world. 

In this episode of Unconfined, author Brea Baker teases out the 20th century’s great dispossession of Black farmers, and reports on a budding revival of African-American agrarianism.  

In this episode of Unconfined, James Skeet waxes philosophical on European-style, settler-oriented, colonialism-informed agriculture and re-imagines an agricultural practice that relies instead on indigenous regenerative intelligence. 

In this episode of Unconfined, author Austin Frerick discusses the barons who dominate US food production, including an Iowa farm couple who spun enormous, manure-spewing hog operations into a vast fortune.  

In this episode of Unconfined, Marion Nestle reveals the food industry's recipe for cooking up academic nutrition research that serves its interests—not yours.   

In this episode of Unconfined, two leading experts, Meghan Davis and Erin Sorrell, take us from farming communities to policy circles to explain how bird flu spreads, who is at risk, and what we can do to slow this outbreak. 

In this episode of Unconfined, three experts help us sort through the new administration's agenda and try to figure out what it all might mean for food policy. 

Claire Kelloway, program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute; and primary writer of Food & Power, a newsletter covering corporate consolidation of agriculture markets. 

Mike Lavender, policy director at National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which also produces a newsletter, this one on Beltway policy developments.

Adam Sheingate, professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science, where he teaches courses on American politics and institutions, including a seminar on the politics of food. He's also a faculty affiliate at the Center for a Livable Future.

In this episode of Unconfined, World Food Prize winner Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted explains how biodiversity, local resources, and saying “no” to pricy pesticides helped cut childhood hunger in Bangladesh     

In this episode of Unconfined, Dave Love explains oyster farming, why it’s impossible to industrialize it, and how oysters offer benefits ranging from amino acids to storm surge buffers.