Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Whether you’re a critic of the food industry, a keen home cook, or simply fascinated by the ties between food, personal identity, and social structures, this list promises to satisfy every curiosity. food system, detailing the human costs of policies that favor profit-driven agriculture. Watch it on YouTube.

Food 131

Food Agriculture Agriculture Farming 131

The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

My answer regarding agricultural and ecological droughts is a bit more complicated, as farmers and environmentalists alike continue to advocate for more water to be allocated to their causes, making it evident that our current and projected water supply is still insufficient.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Food 105

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Ecological farmers may not agree on everything, but one thing we all agree on these days are these 5 essential elements: 1. The devastation among Florida’s orange groves and the diseases attacking coffee trees are symptomatic of one thing: violating all of the above ecological pillars. Let’s go to the heart of the matter.

Poultry 64

Poultry Livestock Pasture Ecology 64

Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 31, 2024

According to the statute, “It is the policy of this state to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of its waters to protect public health, safeguard fish and aquatic life and scenic and ecological values, and to enhance the domestic, municipal, recreational, industrial, agricultural, and other uses of water.”

Livestock 52

Livestock Manufacturing Manure Ruralism 52

Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

Compost 59

Compost Fertilizer Crop Food 59

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

He believes that there is much to be learnt from how Wales was once farmed and that by using the right animals in the right places, increasing tree cover and farming in harmony with nature, agriculture can be an effective, culturally sensitive and socially just means of managing and restoring the Welsh landscape.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Processing 98

The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. Old ecological farmer geezers like me see these newcomers as the most exciting thing to happen in a long time. This new generation of homesteaders is a shot in the arm for rural communities.

Ruralism 99

Ruralism Livestock Supply Chain Meadow 99

ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

So, it’s ecological or cybernetic or complexly interrelated, but it is not magic. Describing and illuminating this web is the “warp and woof” of sustainable agriculture. A web is a serviceable metaphor for complex relationships, ecological and human, but I want to employ another connective metaphor. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

Ecology 40

Ecology Farming Farming Rural Development 40

Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We believe farmers of color, and other historically oppressed people, should have the opportunity to create and participate in a food and agriculture system that aligns with their needs, values, identities, knowledge systems, and communities. However, more important is a passion for food systems work and CAFF’s mission and values.

Technology 40

Technology Marketing Food Farming 40

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

But just like industrial agriculture on land, such operations can harm the environment – and given the role kelp forests play in sequestering carbon, the climate. Governments could, for example, pay farmers for the carbon their crops capture; a new type of blue subsidy.

Cultivation 97

Cultivation Harvester Harvest Harvesting 97

Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Starting in the 1970s, through her groundbreaking nutritional ecology class at Teachers College within Columbia University, and through books like The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology , she transformed our view of food from something enjoyed at the end of a fork to the entire system that created the mouthful.

Food 131

Food Ecology Farming Farming 131

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.

Food 136

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 136

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Matthew Wheeland Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography By David Gilbert Along the slopes of a volcano in Indonesia, a group of Minangkabau Indigenous agricultural workers began quietly reclaiming their land in 1993, growing cinnamon trees, chilies, eggplants, and other foods on the edges of plantations.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Such shocks to the food system are evidence of some of the inherent weaknesses of an industrialized and highly concentrated agriculture sector. To some people , such concentration is an asset, proof of the impressive productivity of modern agriculture. My small flock represents one additional node in the food production network.

Poultry 142

Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

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

Food 40

Food Farming Farming Farmland 40