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    The Impending Agricultural Crisis

    Writer Rowan Jacobsen discusses the decline of pollinating bees, bats and insects, pesticides and its effect on the global agriculture in Fruitless Fall : The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. Music break: Brand X by Devrons

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Writer Rowan Jacobsen discusses the decline of pollinating bees, bats and insects, pesticides and its effect on the global agriculture in Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis.

    Music break: Brand X by Devrons

    The full episode

    7 of 8
    Tarahumara Nutrition; Argentine Ants; Royal Meals; Pollinators Plunge
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:41Cooking Royal Meals
    3. 15:50Argentine Ants
    4. 23:38Tarahumara Nutrition
    5. 31:09Animal
    6. 38:30Didier Dagueneau's Legacy
    7. 44:09The Impending Agricultural CrisisYou’re reading this
    8. 51:16Food Safety Songs
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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      Jennifer Ferro

      Jennifer Ferro, President, KCRW, Los Angeles

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      Thea Chaloner

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    7 of 8
    Tarahumara Nutrition; Argentine Ants; Royal Meals; Pollinators Plunge
    1. 1:00The Market Report
    2. 8:41Cooking Royal Meals
    3. 15:50Argentine Ants
    4. 23:38Tarahumara Nutrition
    5. 31:09Animal
    6. 38:30Didier Dagueneau's Legacy
    7. 44:09The Impending Agricultural CrisisYou’re reading this
    8. 51:16Food Safety Songs
    Back to Good Food