Food Tank

MARCH 21, 2025

These systems are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, with extreme weather events, reducing crop yields, raising food prices and weakening communities resilience. Agroecology can be the solution to our nutrition and environmental crises. Climate change also has an impact on the availability of key nutrients.

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Agroecology Food Grain Beverage 62

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. So they’re working to highlight how perennial grains can help rebuild soils. And they’re pushing innovation.

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Food Grain Ranching Crop Rotation 129

Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Banners are hung, grain samples are on display, and a voice over a megaphone invites the crowd’s attention. Pearl millet is a small, round grain that feeds vast swaths of sub-Saharan Africa. The seedball caravan has arrived. They’re speaking to thousands of people about this unassuming little item.

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Fertilizer Seeding Crop Crop Yield 98

Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S.

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Food Seeding Crop Farming 98

Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology across the continent. The movement continues to grow, and recently added a new chapter to expand into the Arab and North Africa region.

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