Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

He explores how cultivating indigenous trees and investing in new, modified tree crops can produce food, medicine, money, and jobs. He explores how cultivating indigenous trees and investing in new, modified tree crops can produce food, medicine, money, and jobs.

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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. Some years a region’s trees put out a bumper crop, a phenomenon known as mast seeding, while other years can see very little production.

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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 researchers, farmers, chefs, artists, gardeners, and seed savers who contribute to the project work to preserve the seeds and stories of dozens of collard varieties.

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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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Seeding Agriculture Agriculture Food 88