Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beans have been cultivated across the globe for thousands of years and continue to form an essential part of healthy diets and agricultural incomes in many regions of the world. The Sustainable Food Trust recommends that we significantly increase consumption of beans in the UK to enable the transition to more sustainable forms of agriculture.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Most recently, CIEL successfully advocated for the Global Framework on Chemicals , guiding the phase-out of hazardous chemicals in agriculture by 2023. CIEL is also working with American organizations on the front lines of fossil fuel company land grabs for pipelines, and pollution from fertilizer runoff.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In the field, these principles can be implemented through practices such as intensive crop rotations, polycultures, maintaining continuous ground cover, and applying compost. Their webinar grabbed the attention of hundreds of agricultural enthusiasts, invoking in-depth discussion.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The post-war Government enabled an agricultural transition that dramatically shifted farming and diets. v] [vi] [vii] Yet, under the last Government, Defra underspent on its agriculture budget commitments by £358million over three years. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sarah Compson, Associate Director of the Soil Association and International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Organics International World Board member agrees saying, “it’s important to look behind the label and understand the standards underpinning a certification in order to get a sense of the real difference it makes”.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

One way to improve soil is through regenerative agriculture, an array of sustainable farming practices that, as of January, are gathered under an official definition in the state of California. Two years ago, in an effort to guide Californias farming policy and programs, the state launched a public process to define regenerative agriculture.

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