Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. 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. The seedball caravan has arrived.

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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. Perhaps ironically, the mixes have sold best not in rural Virginia but at markets in Washington, D.C. Acorn is a wildness supplement—Vitamin W.”

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In the months leading up to COP28, a petition by the Global People’s Caravan for Food, Land and Climate Justice has circulated among small farming communities, agricultural workers, Indigenous groups, and other rural advocates. Rural peoples have lost the most, and stand to lose the most, from the climate crisis.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. USDA agencies, such as ARS perform the remainder.

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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. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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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. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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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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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. Edition] By Christopher Hart Hedgelands is a delightful paean to a staple of British life and a critical part of the nation’s rural ecology: the hedge.

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