Maywa Montenegro

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Maywa Montenegro

Maywa Montenegro is a PhD candidate in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley, with a masters degree in science writing from MIT. Her research focuses on seeds, agroecology, and food system diversity, with writings on these topics and more appearing in Gastronomica, Earth Island Journal, Seed Magazine, Grist and the Boston Globe.

Society

What Would it Take to Mainstream “Alternative Agriculture”

The industrialized food system, studies have shown, is linked to greenhouse gas emissions, algal blooms, pesticide pollution, soil erosion and biodiversity loss, to name a few ecological troubles.

December 1, 2016

Society

Crispr is Coming to Agriculture, with Big Implications for Food, Farmers, Consumers, and Nature

Very few technologies truly merit the epithet “game changer” — but a new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is one of them.

February 17, 2016

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Agroecology Can Help Fix Our Broken Food System. Here’s How.

“Agroecology applies the principles of ecology to the design and management of sustainable food systems.”

June 19, 2015

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