Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. The prominent chemical ingredient in synthetic nitrogen fertilizers is ammonia, which comes from combining hydrogen and nitrogen gases through burning fossil fuels , including coal, oil, and natural gas.

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Food Fertilizer Crop Rotation Agroecology 64

Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Importing expensive chemical fertilizer, insisting on farming practices unsuited for local conditions, and prioritizing crop yield to maximize profit are some of the blanket agricultural prescriptions that have created unintended and lasting challenges. Food and Agriculture Organization. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Solutions to food security, with fertile lands and natural resources. Read more about the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s report Cultivating Change HERE. Solutions for innovation in a youthful and energetic population with the hunger to succeed. Learn more this #COP29.”

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Finance Food Agriculture Agriculture 86

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Positive momentum and a strong financial position enabled SHI to expand its core programs by hiring new field trainers, start several pilot projects, and cultivate new partnerships, all according to the organization’s scaling up vision as outlined in the Million Farm Transformation and operationalized in a board-approved strategic plan through 2025.

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Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture Farming 52

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. He also calls for more technical support; for example, in regards to how to prepare organic fertilizer for his plants. Photography by Noel Rojo. All vanilla grown in the region is protected by other trees. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beans have been cultivated across the globe for thousands of years and continue to form an essential part of healthy diets and agricultural incomes in many regions of the world. The most widely grown bean crop in the UK is the fava bean, with 188,000 hectares used for their cultivation in 2021.

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