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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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

MARCH 13, 2024

And for good reason: Cattle is the top-ranked agricultural commodity in the U.S. Photo credit: David Thoreson) Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa research engineer and the author of The Swine Republic , explains that because of this difference in the soil, the region has never been well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This was potentially world-altering technology. 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. Photo courtesy of Plantix.

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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.

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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. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds.

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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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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. The post Summer reading 2023: Book reviews first appeared on Sustainable Food Trust.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Describing and illuminating this web is the “warp and woof” of sustainable agriculture. I started working with ATTRA, a program of NCAT (National Center for Appropriate Technology) in 1989 when NCAT opened its Fayetteville, Arkansas, office. The braid I’m a small part of is bright and shining and very, very, long. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

This is partially because they have been included as a key ingredient in the Biden administration’s pledge to reduce methane emissions in animal agriculture. A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. This plan aims to develop the industry further.

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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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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. We’ve seen this in the digital technology sector. Does any of that sound familiar?

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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? More than a quarter-century later, there are still no rigorous animal studies and human trials required for agricultural biotech, as there are for new pharmaceuticals. million monthly web readers.

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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. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrial agriculture. Once identified, that sequence delivering a specific characteristic can be synthesized with a technology known as Digital Sequence Information, or DSI.

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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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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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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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. ” Land O’Lakes’ Truterra is unique in some ways, but it also fits the mold of what agricultural carbon markets have come to look like across the country over the last few years.

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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. Shannon said the city, industry and agricultural producers must work together. “We

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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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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

He foresaw then what we know now: Our food and farming system was never designed to support Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) workers and small farmers who toil to produce our agricultural goods. In federal food and agricultural policy, the best vehicle to achieve this change is the food and farm bill.

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