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Farm & Away

Photo courtesy City Slicker Farms

When cities fail to function, people turn to farms. Today Latitudes explores how agricultural innovations are being sought to balance some of the instability of urbanization.

This week's host

Gregory Warner is a senior reporter for Marketplace covering the business and economics of health care. As a freelance radio producer he has traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Africa to produce stories for This American Life, Radiolab, and other programs. His Marketplace profile of an artisanal miner in the Democratic Republic of Congo won the 2009 Third Coast Festival award for Best News Feature.