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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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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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Food Tank is rounding up 25 books about the past, present, and future of global food and agriculture systems to get you through the winter. Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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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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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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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

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

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

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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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Role of Millets in West Africa Seedball technology isn’t new, but it’s unfamiliar to many of the smallholder farmers who meet the caravan. This flexible technology and others like it are being harnessed by farmer-researcher teams to address the specific challenges of farming in semiarid climates. Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ecomodernists believe that it is possible to protect nature and lessen the environmental impact of human development primarily through technological advances. 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.

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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

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 report focuses on five types of innovation: technological, social, policy, consumer, and business and financial. Innovations don’t always need to be ground-breaking.”

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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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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

This extreme lack of transparency precludes the type of informed, scientific debate that we should be having about this new technology. 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.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Special in-person events and digital profiles throughout the year highlighted the diverse ecosystem of supporters who forged SHI’s success as a forerunning leader in the field of agroecology and regenerative agriculture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 4, 2025

With the Food Technology A-Level scrapped in 2016, there has been a lack of emphasis on food supply chain careers and training. When we surveyed small abattoirs in Wales recently, one owner told us he had wanted to pass the business on to his son, but he felt it was not viable and his son had gone to work elsewhere.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

While agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, it can also play a significant role in mitigating the impacts—and we at Civil Eats make a concerted effort to focus on solutions in our coverage. These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

By Audrey Kolde, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist I find great joy in incorporating green vegetables into my meals. Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

So, with sessions on a holistic approach, agroecology and food systems transformation, it really makes sense to be here and see what is happening in the sessions within Wales, and in the broader UK and global context as well. I’ve looked at the way that we farm, and I think that we do come under ‘agroecological’, in a sense.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 1, 2023

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

We believe in the importance of an agroecological food system because of its potential to meet the nation’s food needs, whilst providing healthier diets, sequestering carbon and making room for much more wildlife.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have a wide selection of food and agriculture books to recommend, both for gift-giving purposes and for the quiet moments you carve out for yourself. We hope our Holiday Book Guide can help create a calm harbor of sorts during this often-harried end-of-year season.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 16, 2024

Young Farmers is excited to announce that Government Relations Director, Vanessa García Polanco has been appointed to the USDA’s National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board. said Nick Rossi, Research Extension and Education Policy Specialist at National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The purpose of this systems research project led by National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) was to identify and promote practical ways of using regenerative grazing practices to improve soil health and catch and hold more rainwater in soil. Department of Agriculture. Department of Agriculture, and local governments.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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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. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If Share this This Story’s Impact 1.3

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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. To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., This marked the beginning of an agrarian movement chronicled by David Gilbert in Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land.

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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. This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added.

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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

Peter Schollierss A History of Bread explores what this staple food can tell us about food policy, consumption patterns, and technology. in his book Decolonizing African Agriculture. He finds the culprit to be colonial models of agriculture science, and argues for a place-based agroecological approach.

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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. This public research and development (R&D) investment is the primary driver of long-term productivity growth in US agriculture.

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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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