Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Food waste is a significant source of methane emissions— according to the U.S. As a small economy, my nation faces the brunt.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. Think about plants in nature. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

By taking legal action, researching, and building campaigns around the world, CIEL hopes to expose the hold that fossil fuels have on industries, including the food system. The Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF) reports that the food system contributes to 15 percent of the total fossil fuel consumption every year.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Supported by a food-for-work strategy developed by the World Food Program and the Ethiopian government, Abebe and his neighbors began terracing their gently sloping land and digging shallow water pans to collect rainwater whenever it came. As the rains vanished and temperatures soared, the topsoil hardened like pavement.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A farmer then cultivates that plot of land before leaving it fallow for seven-to-ten-year cycles. But Hin Lad Nai has proved through scientific research that rotational farming is not causing climate change, but the opposite,” says Karen researcher Dr. Prasert Trakansuphakon to Food Tank. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Food and Agriculture Organization. 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. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Food Tank’s official programming kicks off today, too! The follow-through from those leaders on food action has stalled , which is unacceptable.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Sugarcane cultivation (left) and natural ecosystem (right) in Santa Martha Transforming Agriculture SHI partnering farms utilize organic farming practices that help to restore the soil and other local ecosystems. After years of intensive sugarcane cultivation, the soil needs lots of organic matter in order to heal.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Their shells are harder and thicker than those of the English walnut, the most common commercially cultivated species, and are difficult to separate from the kernel within. They’re creating new equipment, new processing methods and food types,” he says. nut production became concentrated in California.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Out of 7,704 tons produced globally in 2022, 518 tons were from Mexico , UN Food and Agriculture Organization reports. full_link READ MORE Huitlacoche, a Mexican fungus, is popping up on restaurant menus across the US Back then, in his village of San Felipe Usila, people were burning the forests to set up their plots to grow food. “We

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Farmers were hurting, consumers were worried, and Maine’s food system looked to be in crisis. We can fund a farm to switch from hay to grain cultivation, which requires new equipment, new storage, and new drying facilities,” she added. “In Some farms were able to stop production temporarily while they identified possible solutions.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds. They are boiled and cooked and used in various recipes.

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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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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

SHI’s effectiveness and breadth of impact was driven home during a board trip to Panama in early 2020, when we met with a number of communities in various stages of SHI’s 5-year intensive agroecology training program. ” — David Shaw, Member of SHI’s Advisory Council and prominent U.S.

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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. Hachmyer teaches agroecology part-time at nearby Sonoma State University). Last month, she even took a vacation. “I Other farmers have followed different paths to winter growing.

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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. But in the UK, they’re rarely viewed as a food to get excited about. So perhaps it’s time to do yourself and the planet a ‘fava’ and eat more beans.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

A 2020-21 survey conducted by DFWT recorded greater use of the uncropped fields for habitat and hunting by raptors and the endangered Great Blue Pacific Heron, compared to cultivated fields. Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Wrapping up our Stories of Regeneration tour, we land in Ottawa at Just Food Community Farm, a 150-acre farmstead located in Ottawa’s Greenbelt that is championing small-scale, viable agriculture businesses and initiatives like Chi Garden and Urban Fresh Produce. Highlights: 6:45 – What is Just Food Community Farm?

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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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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. From memoirs to cultural histories to journalistic inquiries that take on topics ranging from plant intelligence to school food to climate migration, here are 21 titles we hope you’ll enjoy.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In early 2023, I had the opportunity to serve as the reviewer of Chapter 11 (Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities) of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA 5 ). This creates instability in the cultivation and overall supply and distribution of food, which affects human and environmental health.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Nation Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Defending food supplies is an ancient cornerstone of the social contract, one enshrined in 21st century trade pacts including the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the successor to NAFTA. If sovereignty means anything, the answer to these questions is yes.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

A long list of other states, meanwhile, have banned the word “meat” from cultivated meat packaging. Italy became the first country to criminalize cultivated meat in 2023, as well as banning the use of words like burger and sausage on packaging for alternative proteins. Yet the movement to ban lab-grown meat isn’t confined to the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Seeds are an integral underpinning of our food system.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Continuing our ‘Learning Through the Land’ series, SFT Content Editor and organic grower, Alicia Miller, considers some inspiring initiatives happening in Wales that are opening doors to better, healthier eating through reconnecting schools and communities with the story behind their food.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

food system for nearly 16 years. In that time, we’ve been at the forefront of reporting on the policies—some arcane, some mundane—that impact everyone’s most basic daily need: food. Now, a week past the 2024 election, we’re at the brink of momentous shifts in how our food system functions—and for whom.

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