Alejandro Figueroa
Alejandro Figueroa is a reporter and producer covering food production and agriculture through a climate change lens for OPB.
Prior to coming to OPB, Alejandro was a food reporter for WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio through Report for America — a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. There, he covered the lack of access to healthy and affordable food in Southwest Ohio communities, rural and urban agriculture plus the occasional general assignment story.
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The international event, which commemorates the fight for workers’ rights, has often been used to express broader political unrest. This year, President Donald Trump and his administration’s actions are front and center. -
Oregon State University researchers want to find a way to make your hamburger less bad for the planet by feeding cows in the pasture an unlikely food that’s not grown on land — seaweed. -
Oregon’s weather is becoming less predictable. That can make running a farm harder, and it’s pushing farmers to be more climate resilient.
