The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) of 2023 was re-introduced in Congress today. The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Most of America’s farms are dependent on prodigious amounts of fossil fuels at every stage of production. Because farm machinery is often built to last, progress to electrify those vehicles is slow even though it holds huge untapped potential to reduce agriculture’s emissions. (1) commercial and industrial fossil fuel gas. Fertilizer

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal agriculture for decades, but in 2008 when one dairy operation tried moving onto the Yakima Indian Reservation, the community balked at the proposition. Agriculture has become one of the most consolidated industries in the country.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By Pollard explains there are many barriers standing in the way of a more sustainable meat industry, which make it especially difficult for independent producers to be successful.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Now, the disappearing water is threatening more than just agriculture. Across the Ogallala, small towns and cities built around agriculture are facing a twisted threat: The very industry that made their communities might just eradicate them. “If Shannon said the city, industry and agricultural producers must work together. “We

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions.

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Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

They also have ecological benefits because they offer a market outlet for small-scale producers not involved in large-scale industrial agriculture. They can ask questions, learn where the produce came from, and determine what inputs were used in the production process.

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Food Tank

MARCH 24, 2025

Fast-growing broiler chickens are bred to gain weight rapidly, prioritizing meat production over health, Julia Johnson, Head of Food Business in the United States at Compassion in World Farmingthe nonprofit organizers of the BCCtells Food Tank.

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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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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. If there wasn’t such a focus on yield and production in the food system, fewer animals would be crammed into tight spaces and fed poor diets, says Utesch.

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The Equation

MAY 1, 2024

Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry producer in the United States, churns out billions of animal products each year. In addition to countless ribeye steaks and chicken nuggets, Tyson also produces contaminated wastewater—over 18.5 billion gallons in 2022 alone.

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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.

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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.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. Expansion and encroachment are further contributing to the problem, as farmland is used for non-agricultural purposes, such as mining projects. The report highlights four drivers contributing to land consolidation globally.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

How climate change is contributing to food insecurity Rapidly advancing human-caused climate change has many different impacts on agriculture including increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as hurricanes.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Carlisle studies the deep history of regenerative agriculture, going well beyond the buzzword it has become in environmental circles of late.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Each one is a potential treasure trove for companies seeking new plant-based products. Each plant sample is a potential treasure trove for companies seeking new plant-based products. In other words, all possible uses of the plant, including efforts to obtain patent protection for any product developed from it, must be registered.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In reality, destructive food production practices are not a viable way forward for anyone, panelists said. Looking at food production at restaurants and farms through a food justice lens, caring about the future of food means caring about people. Systems-level thinking is important, panelists said, but it’s not enough.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region. It was just an insane amount of water in such a short amount of time.”

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Shane Hamilton is a historian of American agriculture and agribusiness who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Witnessing the struggles my parents faced led me to an acute awareness of the value of education as a means of finding better opportunities outside of agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal agriculture for decades, but in 2008 when one dairy operation tried moving onto the Yakima Indian Reservation, the community balked at the proposition. Agriculture has become one of the most consolidated industries in the country.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. In Linn County, there was no public announcement of Foster Farms’ arrival.

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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. He denied that meat is making climate change worse, and presented the alternatives to be banned as a plot against the meat industry. The budding industry has raised $3.1

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unfortunately, in the years since the launch of the Heirs’ Property Relending Program, only a handful of recipients have been named—primarily through Akiptan , a Native American Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides loans and technical assistance to those in Indian agriculture.

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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.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the UK, 60% of adults are either overweight or obese, a figure expected to rise to 80% by 2060, with huge costs to society in terms of lost workforce productivity, shortened lives and NHS treatments. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases. You can also look up recipes for DIY (Do It Yourself) hygiene and cleaning products.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For the most part, they’re enjoyable and productive neighbors. Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. They don’t compete; they share. They’re interested in anything that makes life more self-reliant and independent from nefarious agendas.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 9, 2025

Lundberg Family Farms is scaling production of their regenerative organic products to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect wildlife. grown rice brand to launch Regenerative Organic Certified products. The company was the first U.S. By 2027, they aim to transition all organic rice to regenerative organic.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 12, 2023

What an amazing day for food systems at COP28 on Food, Agriculture and Water Day! During a morning fireside chat at the Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas Pavilion, Karen Ross, the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, underscored why we can no longer afford to wait. “How is it produced?

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

(Photo: Shutterstock) Although China, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines still account for more than 95 percent of global production, farms in North America – particularly British Columbia, Alaska, and Maine – are cropping up to meet demand.

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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. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G. Author David E.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. Back at the barn, companies that sell their products at The Mill had set up folding tables to talk to farmers and hand out swag. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour. they yelled.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

And therein lies a big part of the Big Ag problem: mergers and acquisitions across the food and agriculture industry have enabled big companies that touch every corner of our food system to keep getting bigger and more powerful. of US gross domestic product (GDP) and employing more than 22 million people. The average U.S.

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