Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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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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The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

For many years now, my professional life has revolved around food security, and often, that’s included the food and farm bill—that behemoth piece of legislation Congress produces every few years to address a multitude of domestic agricultural and nutrition issues.

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

is the single most-asked question I hear as someone working daily with water science, advocacy, and policy in California. The ongoing megadrought that has afflicted California since 2000 has caused profound challenges for people, agriculture, and ecosystems throughout the state. “Is California still in a drought?”

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And despite the proximity of wetlands to many communities in this country, few people truly understand either the value wetlands hold for our way of life or the threat they face from our industrialized system of agriculture. I spoke with her about the results of her new UCS report, Wetlands in Peril.

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The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

Farmworkers face many hazards while performing the labor that props up the $1.264 trillion US food and farm economy, yet a new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found that federal agencies focused on agriculture and health invested an average of only $16.2 5138 (Industrial Agricultural Accountability Act), and S.3285

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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. These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. The budding industry has raised $3.1 Our family struggled coming out of the ’80s.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For too long, major industrial groups have been dominant, and have pushed a false narrative that harmful chemical inputs and exploitative labor practices and animal treatment protocols are necessarily to feed the world. The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S. Numerous U.S.

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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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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 Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Practically speaking, governments will need to invest in biodiversity restoration, carbon sequestration and agricultural innovation, and a wide range of public health policies will be needed to ensure everyone has access to healthy food.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Describing and illuminating this web is the “warp and woof” of sustainable agriculture. This blog is produced by the National Center for Appropriate Technology through the ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program, under a cooperative agreement with USDA Rural Development. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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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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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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. Big=bad when it comes to corporate power over food Big isn’t always bad. Does any of that sound familiar?

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

This disaster should serve as a sobering reminder that policymakers and the agriculture industry need to do more to adapt to our changing climate. Although most people don’t notice it, erosion and soil degradation caused by industrial agriculture are already a problem in farming regions across the country. All the time.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But if we do it right, it will have a positive ripple effect that will benefit everyone in California and will make the San Joaquin Valley a positive example around the world for agriculture, energy, and socioenvironmental justice. It is the opposite of sustainable agriculture. But how can we do things right?

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

A month later, more than 100 advocacy and labor organizations sent a letter to the leaders of both the House and Senate agriculture committees recommending nearly three dozen provisions (called “marker bills”) for the farm bill that would make the US food and agriculture system more sustainable, resilient, and fair. million to Rep.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

And the agriculture industry, which uses an outsize amount of California’s water and has literally changed the state’s landscape, needs to change and adapt, fast. Agriculture is the largest user of water in the western states. What can farmers do to avoid weather “whiplash”?

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

While the House and Senate Agriculture Committees have been holding hearings and listening sessions since the beginning of the year, progress has repeatedly stalled amid fights over the debt ceiling and appropriations bills that still have not been finalized. production has not kept pace.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. Venture capitalists have poured $3 billion into the lab-grown meat industry, yet the resulting products have to be bulked up with plant protein, and are still far from palatable. Many of the farms were centuries old.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She mixes Indigenous traditional knowledge with modern science in a way that feels practical yet fun.” Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. Black Elk’s efforts go beyond education. Our meat is laced with all kinds of hormones and antibiotics.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mark Brooks, FMC VENTURES Mark Brooks, Managing Director, FMC VENTURES: “My supervillain is ScorchedFarm, who exposes the vulnerabilities of modern agriculture in the face of climate change. The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

While the House and Senate Agriculture Committees have been holding hearings and listening sessions since the beginning of the year, progress has repeatedly stalled amid fights over the debt ceiling and appropriations bills that still have not been finalized. production has not kept pace.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We are all more from science,” she says in her German-accented English. In the years between pitches, Plantix had begun a journey toward becoming one of the world’s most successful digital tools for agriculture, serving more than 30 million farmers who upload some 50,000 images to the platform a day. Something potentially very big.

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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? Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020. Share this This Story’s Impact 1.3 million monthly web readers.

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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. Culinary history, science, and ingredient notes enrich the reading, but the real joy of this book rests in the cooking.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Elizabeth Henderson , farmer and co-chair, Interstate Council policy committee of the Northeast Organic Farming Association I came to know Joan through my work as an organic farmer and as one of the first to organize a CSA [community supported agriculture system]. Sharing the Harvest is a great place to start.

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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.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

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. Why have only a few very large corporations come to dominate agriculture? Moseley asks a simple questionwhy?in

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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. We know that is partially why we keep getting these seasonal outbreaks.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. The Sackett decision was a tremendous loss for everyone who depends on clean water—that is, for all of us.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years. That was—and still is—a major oversight. Big Ag is a major polluter. EN: First, welcome to UCS.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The $160 million that the company’s backers, primarily US venture capitalists and private equity funds, have spent on its operations represents the largest foreign investment in agriculture in the history of the Peruvian Amazon. At least 28 species were new to science. Wiese, Ramrez said, “agreed to this or that zone.”

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