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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Not only are these markets a good fit for smallholder farmers who practice agroecology , but they are also more equitable and accessible for women and youth.

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. . ” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits. The same is true for plastic used in food packaging.

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Relocalizing the Food System to Fight a ‘Farm-Free Future’

Civil Eats

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. I think there are a lot of problems with his arguments; the energetic aspects of single-cell protein-manufactured foods are quite problematic.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

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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