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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Over six decades, intensive agricultural practices in India have reduced natural capital , including the stock of all-natural assets (land, air, water and biodiversity), from which ecosystem services flow. These are the benefits nature provides to support agriculture and the broader economy.

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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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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 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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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

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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Asheville-based initiative seeks to mitigate climate change by helping farmers establish, monitor, and verify carbon sequestration through tactics like agroforestry in the Southern Appalachians, in hopes of creating the country’s first regional carbon market. It’s a potentially lucrative opportunity.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production. CIEL notes that an estimated 74 percent of all petrochemicals are already used for agricultural fertilizer and plastic. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.

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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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biotechnology Farming Farming Crop 189

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more.

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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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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

But as Civil Eats’ reporting has shown, the food and agriculture system is full of examples of how farmers, ranchers, fishers, chefs, restaurants, grocery stores, and consumers are addressing climate change, with strategies that sequester carbon, slash emissions, save water, reduce plastics, and open new markets.

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Food Science Agriculture Agriculture 140

Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Additionally, these tools will help identify potential partners, enabling the expansion of our programs and offering sustainable agriculture training to more family farmers. These partners assist TREE participants in diversifying their agri-food systems and evaluating potential organic products for the market.

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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. CFM reports that in 2023, they served more than 65,000 in-person shoppers and over 160 vendors at weekly markets.

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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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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last year, in the lead-up to COP27, the biggest global convening on climate change, many groups worked to call attention to the fact that governments and businesses were not doing nearly enough to address food and agriculture in their plans to tackle the crisis.

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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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The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Food that is grown with agroecological practices by small and midsize farmers, harvested by farmworkers who are paid fairly and have labor protections, and distributed locally or regionally to all communities is key to healthy lives and a healthy planet. Establishing a new market is challenging—it takes time, energy, and funding.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Out of 7,704 tons produced globally in 2022, 518 tons were from Mexico , UN Food and Agriculture Organization reports. Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber. Mexico belongs to the top five producers of vanilla.

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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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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. With the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act and the added $20 billion to make the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

USDA distributed seeds to farmers for free, encouraging growers to save and share seed and to experiment with any crop that could become economically important to US agriculture. Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Source: Philip H.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Editor’s Note: According to the USDA, agriculture accounted for around 11% of carbon emissions in the USA in 2020. To improve humanity’s impact on the climate, we will need to change the way we approach agriculture in the future. However, the rise of regenerative agriculture has sparked a number of questions.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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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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. Already, Bayer and other companies are trotting out the debunked trope of ‘feeding the world’ in their marketing of biologicals.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

While contract farming, or “factory farming,” has been exposed in the media for being exploitative of animals, the farmers who sign contracts with companies like Tyson, Perdue or other big players in animal agriculture also find themselves backed into a financial corner. The other hurdle is marketing.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters, and importers in international markets.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks. Over the years, us as chefs have seen so many ingredients come in and out of the market due to climate,” says Chef Brian Fowler of BLACKBARN. It’s an incredibly positive story that we don’t hear as much.”

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. Laying the Groundwork for a New Market Such a view of nut trees in the South was once much more widespread. Acorn is a wildness supplement—Vitamin W.”

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

acres in Southwest Philadelphia, produces over 15,000 pounds of food per year using natural agricultural practices, and is powered by paid high school interns working alongside community elders, neighbors and volunteers. “At is an outspoken defender of civil rights and equality, mainly in the world of agriculture / farming.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 25, 2023

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released a report to provide decision makers with a framework to support food and agriculture systems transformation. The women were also able to promote traditional foods by incorporating the Yerba Mate leaves into a variety of nutritious products and sell them to local and international markets.

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