Gary Paul Nabhan

is a farm and food activist and nature writer whose most recent books include Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities and He is the director of the University of Arizona Center for Regional Food Studies and the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Southwestern Borderlands Food and Water Security.

Articles By This Author

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Build a Border Wall? Here’s What Border Communities Say They Want Instead

For many of us who actually live along the U.S.-Mexico border, the “Mesquite Manifesto” addresses economic and climate problems by building up industry around the native tree.

Gary Paul Nabhan | Feb 25, 2019

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A Good-for-Nothing Tree Makes Good

Once upon a time, mesquites got no respect. Now these desert survivors are celebrated as a sustainable food source and a symbol of the borderlands.

Gary Paul Nabhan | Nov 24, 2018

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