Food Tank

MARCH 20, 2024

The organization offers services that promote the advancement of agricultural projects within the region, seeking to remedy a lack of opportunity for socioeconomic mobility and food insecurity. “We Through ongoing engagement with community members, NAS began a seed banking initiative to help them work toward food sovereignty.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Shout out for the Access Agriculture farmer-to-farmer educational video platform from the Seed System Newsletter. As we’re on online resources, there’s also the Support Centre for Agriculture and Nutrition Research (SCANR). This book says that be just the ticket for rural revitalisation. I bet you do.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. They know maize is different.” He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. He was right.

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Maize Food Agroecology Seeding 142

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 110

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption. In the US, large-scale agriculture is dominated by a small handful of companies, which are consolidating even further due to recent mega-mergers.

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