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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Food and Agriculture Organization calculates—which makes the problem of soil erosion so much more concerning. About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. If we want good food, we need good soil.

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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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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

The introduction of powerful and scalable technologies is just one aspect of a broader paradigm shift in agricultural research, one that relies on equal collaboration between researchers, farmers and other organizations such as those who make up the seedball caravan. Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country. France has the most developed sharing system, which includes a network of over 12,000 agricultural equipment cooperatives, involving a third of all French farms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture and EPA have jurisdiction over different types of GE microbes, enhancing confusion, and neither has developed regulations that account for their unique properties. They are also claiming their leadership in regenerative agriculture. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But you have to actually create transition paths for farmers to exit out of factory farming.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Regen10 is a coalition of organisations working together to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture. Mostly, I’m looking for clues about the footprint of agriculture in a place – what can it tell us about its past and present. Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Created by Congress in 1985, the CRP asks agricultural producers to voluntarily take environmentally sensitive land out of active production and conserve it. But not everyone agrees.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. No matter the perception of reality, animal agriculture is still the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions behind fossil fuels and is the number one cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss.

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Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past several months, farming has become nearly impossible in Gaza, cut off from water, fuel, equipment and processing, as well as from their farmland. REVIEW social media posts from farmers and allies Cultural Roots Nursery , Soul Fire Farm , Foodshed , Agroecology Commons, and Second Generation Seeds.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. Just before midnight on May 24, 2024, the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture voted on the bill. The committee considered the bill in a 13.5-hour

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has an array of programs aimed at farmers growing food that supports rural communities and the environment, but its own purchasing has long revolved around sourcing the cheapest foods available. The IPCC’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Alarm for Food Systems, Too Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag?

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains. How is the new farm bill shaping up to address the agriculture sector’s pollution problem?

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