Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As countries negotiate and announce their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or environmental action plans, they must meaningfully uplift agroecological and regenerative approaches, not just pay lip service. We need to integrate soil health into international negotiations like the ones being discussed here at COP29.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The writer, farmer, and social scientist doesn’t believe that humans need to take themselves out of the natural world to protect it, and he argues for agrarian localism over ecomodernism in his latest book, Saying No to a Farm-Free Future. He hasn’t written much about food and farming in recent years; this was his big food book.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Irrigation and farm equipment also depend on fossil fuels. Mismanaged farm waste on CAFOs has a climate toll as well, responsible for as much as 7 percent of global farming emissions. Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. Improved soil health : Regenerative practices prioritize soil health, which is the foundation of successful farming.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. Jean-Baptiste has been working with smallholder farmers across the country to promote agroecology as a solution to hunger and poverty for four decades. Hunger in Haiti is not an accident.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A cause for controversy Unsurprisingly, it’s an approach that hasn’t been particularly well received by the hill farming community. It’s a frustrating situation, not least because most people probably agree that there is space for hill farming and rewilding to coexist.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As key players in producing food, restaurants and farms can take on a central role in creating climate progress. ’ The Summit, “Restaurants and Farms: A Key Solution to the Climate Crisis,” was presented along with partners Planet FWD, Brightly, Guckenheimer, Astanor and Protein PACT.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

347.563.6408 Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward Washington, DC, May 20, 2024 – On Friday, May 17, the House Agriculture Committee released the long-awaited Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA ). The Farm, Food, and National Security Act fundamentally fails to meet the moment.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

My partner in our farm, Robbie Jaffe, and I have been very involved in trying to speak for the Cuyama Valley community, defending the science of groundwater depletion and our personal experience as farmers and community-members. Our farm is our personal example of how to do agroecology. But Big Carrot keeps pumping.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

But as Civil Eats’ reporting has shown, the food and agriculture system is full of examples of how farmers, ranchers, fishers, chefs, restaurants, grocery stores, and consumers are addressing climate change, with strategies that sequester carbon, slash emissions, save water, reduce plastics, and open new markets. Will It Scale Up?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Attending this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference earlier this month, SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, shares more on the sessions that took place, in her round-up article on this year’s event. But is the tide finally changing? The commons offer the most obvious route – if we can meaningfully reactivate it.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Thanks to committed donors like you, we made a lasting impact on farming families and the planet. These strategies will benefit farming communities by providing more effective tools and knowledge. The Belize program also partnered with several groups to extend its reach to more farming communities.

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The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Food that is grown with agroecological practices by small and midsize farmers, harvested by farmworkers who are paid fairly and have labor protections, and distributed locally or regionally to all communities is key to healthy lives and a healthy planet. Establishing a new market is challenging—it takes time, energy, and funding.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Community Farmers Markets (CFM) Serving as an umbrella organization, CFM was established to meet the demand for more efficiently managed, community-based and sustainable farmers’ markets in Atlanta. CFM reports that in 2023, they served more than 65,000 in-person shoppers and over 160 vendors at weekly markets.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber. Searching for market in Mexico The scarcity of water is just one of the hurdles facing vanilla production in the La Chinantla region. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Oxford Real Food and Farming Conference (ORFC) has flourished since it began in 2010, now drawing a huge diversity of people from across the world of food and farming. This afternoon, it was about Welsh farming and food. I’ve looked at the way that we farm, and I think that we do come under ‘agroecological’, in a sense.

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If businesses maintained the status quo, the power asymmetry could prevent efforts to build resilience on small farms at the local level, he said, but, “the opportunity is that. Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? A coalition of farm groups are pushing to get the program written into the upcoming farm bill.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

This year our farm trials will test the use of the Global Farm Metric framework to enable farmers and others to navigate the complex world of farm sustainability, so that they can support and drive change. The trials will also explore the value of assessing vital aspects of farm sustainability that are sometimes overlooked.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

The top 1 percent of world’s largest farms now control 70 percent of land, leaving smaller-scale farmers behind. Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology. Approximately 87 percent of these land grabs occurred in regions of high biodiversity.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers. Already, Bayer and other companies are trotting out the debunked trope of ‘feeding the world’ in their marketing of biologicals.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 CAFF is a California-based membership organization that includes family farmers and other community members passionate about local food, farming, and the environment.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nice Roots Farm at Share Food Program is in the thick of the growing—and learning!—season. Since spring 2023, 15 different groups of K-8 students from nearby schools have taken field trips to the farm in Allegheny West where they learn about urban growing, nutrition, and wellness, all through a food justice lens. What is Food Justice?

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters, and importers in international markets.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This series was created in collaboration with the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance. Support for resilient and diversified seed systems is critical in the upcoming Farm Bill and can also be a direct pathway to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and climate change strategies.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmer Ibrahim at the Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, KS. For example, OUAIP works with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to ensure support for all types of agricultural practices regardless of the size of an operation, where it is located, or the techniques used for production.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. Laying the Groundwork for a New Market Such a view of nut trees in the South was once much more widespread. Acorn is a wildness supplement—Vitamin W.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sankofa Community Farm Sankofa Community Farm is a spiritually-rooted, intergenerational farm uplifting people and cultures of the African diaspora. Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden Find Sankofa Community Farm’s chemical-free produce June through November at the Bartram’s Village and Clark Park farmers markets.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. But first, let’s break down all the red, green, and yellow flags included in the first draft. based multinational corporations, private equity firms, and pension funds.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 25, 2023

The women were also able to promote traditional foods by incorporating the Yerba Mate leaves into a variety of nutritious products and sell them to local and international markets. Look at Indigenous communities or traditional farming communities that are farming sustainably and they have been for thousands of years,” Loken tells Food Tank.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

more food secure and our farming practices more environmentally friendly , we expect to see both an increase in and a deepening of these conversations. Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-Based Solutions Coffee crops grow alongside other plants in what is known as an Agroforestry approach to farming. Image sourced from Urban Ag News.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Here, organic grower, Alicia Miller, shares how climate change is impacting their approach at Troed y Rhiw Organics – a mixed farm and vegetable box scheme in West Wales. On our farm, we’ve been bracing for the impact. The asparagus has arrived from the Borders, and at our Monday market it flies off the stall.

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