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OpenAG, an open-source agricultural research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, advocates for an open-source, computerized food system that would account for the environmental and socio-economic effects of food production. Here a team of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists, and scientists are on the mission to

  Traditionally, many tribal members grew lima beans, squash, corn, and other vegetables; used mesquite trees for food, medicine, and other practical purposes; and relied on wild game for food. Today, about 12,000 acres of their reservation are used for industrial farming—cotton, alfalfa, potatoes, and other commercial crops—but, in the