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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

The Food Bank works with almost 700 community-based nonprofit partners to distribute more than 9 million meals across metro Atlanta and north Georgia every month. Open Hand Atlanta Open Hand Atlanta distributes healthy meals to people in need, with the vision of eliminating diet-related chronic illnesses.

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New Report Shows the Need for a Food and Farm Bill That Fights Climate Change

The Equation

This creates instability in the cultivation and overall supply and distribution of food, which affects human and environmental health. Other steps in the supply chain such as processing, distribution, retail, and the final journey to our table also contribute to emissions. Building resilient agricultural systems.

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

May 1st marked the official signing of SB 1084, a bill that makes it illegal to sell, distribute, create or otherwise possess lab-grown meat. A long list of other states, meanwhile, have banned the word “meat” from cultivated meat packaging. In actuality, cultivated meat is not that mysterious.

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The Power of Millets and Farmer Research Collaboration

Food Tank

In the spirit of this annual theme, sorghum cultivation was recently explored in depth at the Global Sorghum Conference in Montpellier, France, in early June. Food and Agriculture Organization. Sorghum, which belongs to the larger family of millets, is one such nutritious, Indigenous staple crop for West Africa.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. One of the core functions of the USDA, upon its foundation in 1862, was the collection and public distribution of germplasm , or seeds.

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Some Farmers Are Skipping Tomatoes and Eggplants. Their Reasons May Surprise You.

Civil Eats

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. Much of what you’re distributing in the winter can be [sold] in larger quantities for consumers to store,” Hachmyer says. “As We realized how much we could do in the winter.”

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If But whatever its judgment, the US-Mexican dispute has put a needed spotlight on mounting global concern about the consolidation of a food system dominated by a handful of biotech and chemical firms.

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