Claire Hope Cummings
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Journalism

Claire is a broadcast and print reporter. For six years as food and farming editor, Claire hosted a popular weekly radio program on KPFA-FM, in Berkeley, California, the flagship station for the Pacifica Radio Network. She also reports regularly for KQED television, PBS for Northern California.

She writes stories for national environmental magazines as well for newspapers, on-line publications, and blogs such as Ethicurian, Grist and Beacon Broadside.

Articles

Ripe for Change: Agriculture's Tipping Point
Worldwatch Institute, July/August 2006

Claire’s feature articles for World Watch Magazine include one on corn and culture, one on rice in California, and one on the history and invasiveness of GMOs. They are all available for free by searching on www.worldwatch.org.

The Meaning of Food
Center for Ecoliteracy

Are GMOs Being Regulated or Not?
CropChoice.com, June 2003


Guides

Reporters and Editor’s Guide to Agricultural Genetic Engineering
Environmental Media Service

Farmer’s Guide to Genetic Engineering
National Family Farm Coalition
and Farm Aid

Hawaii

Claire is an expert in the regulatory issues involved in agricultural biotechnology. She has been studying its social and environmental impacts in Hawai‘i. For the last five years, Claire has been advising local groups and has conducted several speaking tours throughout the islands including presentations to Kauai Agricultural Advisory Board, to activist and organic farming groups, and the general public, educating them around the risks of genetically engineered crops and the multiple benefits of a traditional and diverse local food and farming economy.

For more information on GMOs in Hawai‘i, read Uncertain Peril and follow the links at GMO FREE HAWAI‘I.