Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

Samples were collected from irrigation waters, soil, sediments, air/dust, animal fecal material, wildlife scat, and other sources across approximately a 54 mile (7,000 acres) area of the southwest growing region.” [ It’s about time the FDA did this ]. Here is food safety lawyer Bill Marler’s comment. Comment Foster dialogue?

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. food system focuses on feed for animals and fuel for automobiles. of US farmland. Make them happen!

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Food Tank

MARCH 7, 2025

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. For decadescertainly for most of my careerdiscussions about food and agriculture systems have been pushed to the sidelines. Political leaders are recognizing that food is central to climate solutions. But thats changing now.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. Every partnership includes dialogue, time, and plenty of listening,” Roa tells Food Tank.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Only the rice becomes food for humans. Meanwhile, the Delta itself is a food desert. Food insecurity is rampant. If we took 5 percent of the acres and diverted them into almost anything that wasnt a commodity, its literally an additional $2.5 food system more resilient. Grocery stores are scarce.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Gail Taylor and D’Real Graham at Three Part Harmony Farm, their one-acre farm in Washington, D.C.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Food justice reporting has been a cornerstone of Civil Eats’ coverage since we launched 15 years ago. This year, we further explored how people are working toward food justice in their communities. We are committed to elevating the voices of people who produce our food, as well as those who are affected by its production.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

One person who does is Stacy Woods , research director for the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. A geostatistican by training, Dr. Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Here, Patrick Holden explains why land sharing not ‘land sparing’ holds the key to sustainable food, biodiversity and climate resilience. Instead, I believe we should adopt a land sharing approach, producing food in harmony with nature and keeping as much agricultural land in production as is possible.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

When Yvonne Martinez shops for her weekly allotment of food from the Skyview Elementary and Middle School Pantry in Anaheim, California, her box isn’t filled with nearly expired canned goods. Instead, it’s brimming with in-season fruits and vegetables that were harvested less than 25 miles away. Volunteers working at Harvest Solution.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. Many tribes in Alaska are very intertribal, sharing similar foods and waterways.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. All but one of those acres, however, are landlocked. Not just food.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Like so many Indigenous communities, the Hualapai experienced outsized food insecurity during the pandemic. The northwestern Arizona tribe received sporadic food donations through a local church but wanted to take matters into its own hands. From there, Ford foresees this as the first cohort of many.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Kotutwa Johnson with a harvested ear of Hopi white corn. His harvest looks unique, too. Hopi corn growing.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For many seasons, most of the kale, chard, tomatoes, beets, napa cabbage, carrots, and collard greens harvested by Growing Home , a 1.5-acre acre organic urban farm in the impoverished Englewood community on Chicago’s South Side, was destined for marketplaces within the city’s more affluent communities. But when Janelle St.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The food systems advocate, land steward, and beekeeper came of age during the civil rights movement in Kentucky and has spent five decades working for social and racial justice. In 1972, he founded the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. Jim Embry sees tending to land as a sacred and spiritual responsibility.

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Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

New York City, New York - The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced a Commitment to Action by Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) at its 2023 meeting in late September. SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one. This is where data becomes not only invaluable but imperative, helping farmers grow more food while conserving resources; farming smarter, not harder as the saying goes.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 18, 2024

full_link READ MORE Mending Hawaii’s food insecurity with breadfruit. Even more impressive is that through their partnership with Hawaii Land Trust, they harvested a kiawe tree log at Mhukona and made stunning trays on which to serve the food, and chopsticks for the judges utensils. Photo submitted by Naau iwi.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too. who will direct the new project. “As

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Food Tank

MAY 16, 2024

Last year, if you were on the Upper West Side and popped into Harvest Kitchen for a bite, you’d find a casual atmosphere and a sizable four-page menu of burgers, sandwiches, tacos, bowls, salads, and mains. During Earth Month, Harvest became the latest signatory to New York City’s Plant-Powered Carbon Challenge.

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ProAg

JULY 26, 2023

Sunflower acres have decreased 20% this year compared to 2022 at 1.35 million acres. Harvested areas are also expected to decrease by 20% to 1.29 million acres. Oil-type sunflower acres are down 24% from last year, while non-oil varieties are estimated at 164,000, up 15% from last year.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 9, 2023

When Mark Joseph began noticing reports about food prices climbing due to inflation and other economic factors, he started looking into options on how to cut food costs. Communal gardening is the practice of growing food in a collectively shared space. Joseph joined a local community garden project just outside St.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 16, 2024

Some are even ready to harvest. READ: How to apply for food aid and assistance in New Jersey But Mustafa said serving Essex County residents isn’t easy when governments don’t consider urban farming as a viable solution to bring affordable, fresh food to food-insecure communities.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 6, 2025

Since joining Lavaloha in 2019, Bencomo has spent most of his days farming on the property made up of almost 1,000 acres 25 of which are dedicated to cacao. Once the pods turn vibrant colors orange, red, maroon and yellow theyre ready to be harvested with clippers and sickles. With around 10,000 trees, its Lavalohas main commodity.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The tribe only owns roughly 27,000 acres of its 120,000-acre reservation, after U.S. In the past five years, three Nebraska tribes—the Winnebago, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska—have bought a combined 3,000-odd acres of farmland that was once theirs. But that reality is starting to change.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. We’re reaching out to keep you in the loop on the amazing All Things Food Summit next week in Austin, Texas, as part of the SXSW festival. Kavehkar , Texas Monthly; Admiral Rachel L. Levine , U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Across seven chapters, each uncovering a different element of the Welsh landscape, Graves celebrates the diverse ecosystems of his homeland, revealing how the land has been transformed by humans ever since they first began harvesting wood and herding animals. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Poplar, beech and oak trees are the most common hosts; truffles receive food from the tree’s roots,l and, in exchange, deliver nutrients to the soil in which the tree grows. It only grows in Alba, Italy and one secret corner of France, where a team of scientists managed to harvest a handful following decades of investment and effort.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Sustainable, exceptional ingredients are the cornerstone of great food. I started understanding the crucial impact of regenerative agriculture practices on the food I serve to my customers and the food served to the world once I became a chef and business owner. The world is fed by Nebraskans—that makes me proud.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Even on a compact farm like Small Axe, which spans only four acres — the national average is 446 acres — there was much to be done: crop rotations to plan, greenhouse doors to finish, a new shed to build. But, as part of the nonprofit Black Farmers Collective, Small Axe is more than just a place for growing food. Still, W.E.B.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re plopped on a small plot of land or plodding through too many acres, take time to ponder the wealth waiting in the ground to be found and nurtured. And know with each step if you get stuck that a rich community of other soil and food lovers is waiting to help when things get too muddy.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 12, 2024

“They are like rock stars,” says Bill Brinkerhoff, Argus’ co-owner, a tall, friendly businessman with a passion for local food. Argus represents an emerging business model, the farm stop, which connects consumers and farmers in a local food web. percent, from 434 acres to 463 acres. It’s a small but expanding niche.

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