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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

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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Op-Ed | Nourishing Food Systems for People and the Planet through Agroecology

Food Tank

The 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit underscored the interlinkages between nutrition, agriculture and climate resilience. Agroecology can be the solution to our nutrition and environmental crises. Current food systems struggle to provide healthy diets while sustaining ecosystems. There is good news.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I We’ve got 150 acres of grain.” He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

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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Relocalizing the Food System to Fight a ‘Farm-Free Future’

Civil Eats

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. Agriculture at its best can do this.” Given that one or two billion people in the world are relying on agriculture for their livelihoods?

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The Power of Millets and Farmer Research Collaboration

Food Tank

Banners are hung, grain samples are on display, and a voice over a megaphone invites the crowd’s attention. Pearl millet is a small, round grain that feeds vast swaths of sub-Saharan Africa. Food and Agriculture Organization. The seedball caravan has arrived. 2023 has been dubbed “ International Year of Millets ” by the U.N.