Telecoupling Stories

  • Tariffs lead to creative supply chains

    Published on August 5, 2019
    MSU scholars apply a new, more holistic way to examine global agricultural trade to better understand what’s going on when a country as enormous as China develops a big appetite for soybeans.

  • Diving deep into water and energy trade-offs

    Published on April 30, 2019
    Two papers by Michigan State University (MSU) scientists begin challenging a more simplistic, input/output view of natural resources in favor of a way that better reflected how the world really works.

  • Today’s global farming less back breaking, more mind bending

    Published on June 22, 2018
    Farming has always been difficult. However, through technological advances, we can plant crops, apply precise synthetic fertilizers and harvest with ease. Yet even as uncertainty over supply has been reduced, market demand is more volatile than ever.

  • Importing food damages domestic environment

    Published on May 7, 2018
    The decisions domestic farmers must make as imported food changes the crop market can damage the environment.

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