Liberty
Iran’s actions hurt the world’s poor
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores the impact of Iran’s recent military actions. [A] whole bunch of people around the world are going to starve to death because of…
Food security
Research Brief
Agriculture
The politics of hunger
Anti-poverty advocates are throwing a fit over the Trump administration’s decision to halt the Household Food Security report, a survey that measures levels of hunger and food insecurity in the…
Agriculture
Solar Farms Are Killing NC’s Farmland – Nuclear Can Save It
North Carolina’s current energy policy aims to achieve carbon neutrality through the least cost path that maintains or improves grid reliability. Environmentalists have made it clear that they want the…
John Locke Foundation Launches “Sowing Resilience” Project
RALEIGH – The John Locke Foundation is proud to announce the launch of our “Sowing Resilience” project, a comprehensive initiative aimed at bolstering North Carolina’s agriculture industry and addressing food…
Agriculture
Sowing Resilience
North Carolina boasts nearly 43,000 farms covering over 8.1 million acres of farmland, producing $18.7 billion in agriculture product sales (eighth in the nation in 2022). Even more impressive, output…
Agriculture
The Heavy Toll of Government Environmental Policies on American Farmers
A new report from the Buckeye Institute finds that environmental policies harm farm workers. In the push for environmental sustainability and carbon neutrality, governments around the world have implemented various…
Liberty
New Report Exposes the Unintended Consequences of Biofuel Incentives and Mandates
RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation is releasing a first-of-its-kind report today, “In the Tank: Grading State Biofuel Incentives and Mandates,” grading states on their biofuel incentives and mandates. The…
Energy
In the Tank
The increased interest in renewable energy has led to the implementation of biofuel incentives and mandates by many state governments in the United States. Production of biofuels using edible crops,…
Liberty
Dutch Farmers Protesting Damaging Climate Change Policies
Tractors across the Netherlands have been mobilized, as Dutch farmers take to the streets, the airports and the highways to protest against a nitrogen pollution policy that will destroy their…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Andrew Dunn reports for Carolina Journal Online about criticism of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system for failing to investigate sexual assaults properly. Donald Bryson’s CJ Opinion urges Congress to focus on…
Liberty
Do 20% of children go hungry?
I was in middle school before I realized that my family was poor — what we today call the ‘working poor.’ My dad was a truck driver with an eighth-grade…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
COVID-19 and the meat supply: JLF alum Daren Bakst offers expert analysis
Former JLF regulatory expert Daren Bakst looks into COVID-19’s impact on American supplies of meat. He publishes his findings with the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal. Many Americans are rightfully concerned…