Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. We need to rethink our food systems and transition to diversified agroecological systems that can ensure we address this twin challenge, and to provide nutritious diets to a growing population without destroying the planet.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

So does the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Looking for an African take on African agricultural development? Do you think there should be a, well, systemic approach to the food system? Hope they include seed systems. And genebanks. Want a rather beautiful way to remember the complicated history of coffee?

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Over the last several years, agriculture has stormed onto the climate agenda. Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. And its about time. Local markets are climate resilient.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Embarking on the journey of regenerative agriculture is akin to slipping into a swimming pool. Philanthropy can help tilt the incentives needed to usher in a regenerative and agroecological transition that centers farmers and landscape stewards and recognizes a shared set of principles. It is possible to forge a more sustainable path.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Climate Change Conference, Million Belay, General Coordinator for Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa discussed the power of food sovereignty and agroecology. The conversation was co-organized by Food Tank and the Food and Agriculture Pavilion. The struggle is not built into regenerative agriculture or, if it is, it’s very weak.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A sustainable blue cheese industry needs more microbial diversity. The Open Source Seed Initiative gets written up in The Guardian. Looks like we need something similar for cheese microbes. The Guardian then follows up with mung bean breeding and fart jokes.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Before defining regenerative agriculture, it’s important to note what it isn’t. Regenerative agriculture offers a powerful solution to today’s interconnected crises, including the climate crisis, poverty, declining food security, and biodiversity loss. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. The NCA5 covers a lot of ground, but this summary focuses on aspects most relevant to agriculture. high-efficiency irrigation and genetic modification) rather than systems approaches.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. In addition to political and economic stressors in Haiti, environmental degradation and the climate crisis are exacerbating the impact of natural disasters on Haiti’s agriculture sector.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Farmers in many parts of the world, particularly smallholder, Indigenous, and family farmers, are increasingly seeing their agriculture practices turn against them. They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. Regenerative agriculture is not just a buzzword; it represents a fundamental shift in the way we view and practice farming.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Through approaches grounded in food sovereignty, agroecology, Black liberation, and grassroots feminisms, both are catalyzing much-needed transformation in food systems – and broader systems – entrenched in exploitation and oppression.”

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Organic Farming Research

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This article discusses the significant impact of climate change on agriculture, particularly the vulnerability of organic farming systems. It highlights the importance of long-term agroecological research in understanding how different farming practices can build resilience against climate change.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But if we do it right, it will have a positive ripple effect that will benefit everyone in California and will make the San Joaquin Valley a positive example around the world for agriculture, energy, and socioenvironmental justice. It is the opposite of sustainable agriculture. But how can we do things right?

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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to address emerging agricultural issues, instead requiring USDA to receive Congressional approval for any use of the CCC.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. I may not talk to them, but I do listen, or, rather, observe them.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. agricultural landscape and the policies that are most closely aligned with incentivizing its creation. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs. Likely decline in the number of farms globally by the middle of the century. Wait, you have to model this, you can’t figure it out from space? Male and stale?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry’s focus on urban agriculture and food justice in Detroit drew a global audience, where he hosted audiences include the British Parliament, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and distinguished personalities such as Danny Glover, David Korten , and Joanna Macy. This means everyone is involved in the food agricultural system.

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Caff

AUGUST 26, 2024

Community Alliance with Family Farmers, in partnership with the Farm Service Agency, Veggielution, Agroecology Commons, the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Food Access LA, are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Growing Urban Agriculture microgrants for the Spring of 2024.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As countries negotiate and announce their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or environmental action plans, they must meaningfully uplift agroecological and regenerative approaches, not just pay lip service. The small farmers of the Americas want, desire, hope to help improve the environment. Register HERE. Register HERE.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

. “This year’s SOFI report confirms that global progress at ending hunger has stalled at unacceptably high levels,” said Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, one of the agencies that contributed to the report. But we can’t despair. It means we have to get busy—and get busy now.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

While OUAIP is housed within the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS), it works across United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies. Farmer Ibrahim at the Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, KS.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The agriculture students will be growing and raising specialty crops and animals for us, and culinary students will get the chance to get their hands in the dirt to learn what it takes to grow a crop,” says chef-instructor and Top Chef alum Robin Leventhal. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost, and Community Help Us Understand Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course by Jeff Poppen In Barefoot Biodynamics , Jeff Poppen integrates stories from his time in rural Tennessee in his guide to biodynamic principles and practices.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I am a professional agroecologist trained in ecosystem processes with experience in sustainable agriculture. Over many years, as Big Agriculture in the state got bigger and bigger, such unbridled pumping led to a race to the bottom for too many aquifers, and drought and climate change only intensified the need to pump.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

As a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “ Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows.” Back up a step: What is urban agriculture? Oxford Tract research farm at UC Berkeley.

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ATTRA

JULY 15, 2023

Alexis Racelis is an associate professor of agroecology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a member of NCAT’s Board of Directors. His work helping farmers grow food with less water and under more extreme heat conditions is featured in an article in The Texas Tribune.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology. Expansion and encroachment are further contributing to the problem, as farmland is used for non-agricultural purposes, such as mining projects. But the report offers several recommendations.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Yesterday was Food, Water and Agriculture day here in Baku, and discussions across the entire conference showcased the power of food systems and the range of challenges we can address when we take food systems seriously. “My Second, let’s place more emphasis on youth in agriculture.” As a small economy, my nation faces the brunt.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

These organizations are supporting local food producers and regional economies, offering educational resources and agricultural training, and working to ensure that their neighbors don’t go hungry. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Written by: Isabelle Dom Across the world of ESG investing, SDG impact, and climate change mitigation, a consistent omission has been bothering us at Agritecture: few events - if any - cover the full breadth of agriculture-related solutions. Controlled Environment Agriculture A CEA farm growing tomatoes.

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Food Tank

JULY 12, 2024

This, by the way, is why I so deeply admire Representative McGovern and other real-life food superheroes, for their tireless work to improve our country’s food and agriculture systems. We also need to think about where our money goes. When it comes to investments, food systems receive just 4 percent of total public climate financing.

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