Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Not only are these markets a good fit for smallholder farmers who practice agroecology , but they are also more equitable and accessible for women and youth.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

CROPGRIDS: A global geo-referenced dataset of 173 crops circa 2020. It’s great to finally know where crops are grown. If only they had had this analytical framework when they thought of Bt crops. Assessment of seed system interventions for biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in Malawi. Male and stale?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Winter Squash Leaves All parts of the squash family plants are edible, from leaves to stems, flowers, fruit, skin, and seeds. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds. You can use these leaves and fruits in summer soups and pasta dishes. They are usually sold in bunches.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

About the size of a wine cork, a seedball is a mass of organic matter including ash, soil, urine, and pearl millet seeds. The seedballs contain a dense powerhouse of nutrients and protective elements that give the enclosed seeds a greater chance to flourish in a challenging climate. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. As part of its efforts to foster a new crop of farmers, earlier this y ear, the USDA announced it would be investing $262.5 It’s truly full circle.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

He is also part of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance , a Black- and Indigenous-led organization with a focus on African and African American crops. There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology.

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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. Perennial Crops Boost Biodiversity Both On and Off Farms. The group is working to adapt more food crops to the changing climate. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Farmers, for example, are experimenting with the wild seed relatives of domestic crops that may be able to withstand extreme weather. Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country? Micro Solar Leases: A New Income Stream for Black Farmers in the South?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The need for greater access to land, so that younger generations can have a role in equitable and accessible food production – most particularly in agroecological food production – is critical and demands that we find new pathways beyond ownership to invite their participation. All featured images courtesy of Hugh Warwick.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

A new report from Friends of the Earth explores the potential implications of this novel use of genetic engineering, something that is fundamentally different from the genetically engineered (GE) crops that have been the center of debate for decades. What could go wrong when we genetically engineer them? And BASF sells a 2.0 Take BASF’s 2.0

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

The book discusses topics such as processed food, genetically modified crops, and the journey to discover and create foods with minimal environmental impact. He explores how cultivating indigenous trees and investing in new, modified tree crops can produce food, medicine, money, and jobs.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Better yet, why do some researchers, farmers and activists prefer the term “urban agroecology?” From 2017 to 2019, my research team helped to define and elevate “urban agroecology” in the US as a better way of acknowledging the multifunctional benefits of urban green spaces. amount of food produced per unit of GHG emission).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. European settlers also made use of wild tree crops, particularly black walnuts, and Holt says numerous companies processed and sold them through the middle of the 20th century.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The Burgers are among a modest cohort of small-time growers who almost exclusively cultivate cool-weather and storage crops that they sell in the wintertime. Those crops, which are staples of farmers’ markets throughout the summer, are also profitable for farmers. We can be a little calmer about our season,” Burger says.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-Based Solutions Coffee crops grow alongside other plants in what is known as an Agroforestry approach to farming. More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Residents of Southwest Philly can also get low-cost raised garden beds , soil and seed starts from Sankofa to start growing their own food at home, or can sign up to join Sankofa’s on-site community garden. Read more → John Boyd, Jr. Follow Soil Generation on social media for updates on the final Urban Ag plan, plus their upcoming offerings.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape.

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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. A right to food law is nearing approval in the Mexican legislature.

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RR2CS

JULY 18, 2023

Have you ever found yourself scratching your head trying to make sense of all those terms like polycultures, cocktail crops, intercropping, cover crops, companion cropping, and relay crops? 16:30 – Dr. Bainard shares seeding considerations when it comes to productivity. It’s understandable!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If What happens is this: The genetic code of Bt seeds are programmed to produce toxins that attack the stomach linings of crop-munching caterpillars. But those days have ended.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

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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. Crop Trust , International Crop Trust is dedicated to preserving plant genetic diversity to secure agricultural, food, and nutrition sustainability.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Plants have recent memories that they pass on to their seeds. Meanwhile, in the U.S., We no longer trembled with fear. They can hear sounds.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. A review of the research projects awarded through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) and AFRI from 2009-2023 shows that the allocation for organic research does not meet the ongoing need.

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Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

Crops have been abandoned and livestock face starvation or are being slaughtered to feed the hungry. Each one of us carries with us the capacity to create change, to plant seeds, to tend an olive tree, to grow food and sit at a table and eat with one another, as though all of us are precious.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 10102, 10004).

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