Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Songbird Farm (Photo credit: Jenny McNulty) Maine had been spreading what is called sludge on its farmland and fields since the 1980s. Farmers were hurting, consumers were worried, and Maine’s food system looked to be in crisis. Testing, however, is only the first step towards regaining use of PFAS contaminated farmland.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

After the excess of Christmas and New Year, the Oxford Real Food and Farming Conference (ORFC) is always a good place to come back down to earth, contemplate the coming year and think deeply about what it might hold. The answer isn’t the root of the matter as, really, we all know who controls our food – corporate enterprise.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Food and Agriculture Organization. In the neighboring country of Burkina Faso, the Association Minim Sông Pânga (AMSP), with 5,000 members, leads efforts to advance sorghum breeding research to best serve farmland in their region. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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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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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members. Why Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes Are Concerning appeared first on Food Tank. And BASF sells a 2.0

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

We see Walmart or shitty food or HelloFresh as competition—not each other.” Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country. We don’t see each other as competition in any meaningful way.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. We hear about how the food system is broken,” says Watts. And these pathways can be difficult to find and establish.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Alongside partners at the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), the GFM team are leading Regen10’s trials of its Regenerative Outcomes Framework. Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. Regen10 is a coalition of organisations working together to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits. You can check out a flyer about Nettie here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

They can flourish eating grass, herbs and shrubs, effectively transforming sunlight, rainwater and soil nutrients into some of the most nutrient rich foods available to us. These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops.

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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. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

could reduce their food-related emissions by shifting 40 percent of their meat-based diet (cows, sheep, goats) by 2050 to meat alternatives, whether plant-based or lab-grown, or a mix. These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. It all comes into what drives them.”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has an array of programs aimed at farmers growing food that supports rural communities and the environment, but its own purchasing has long revolved around sourcing the cheapest foods available.

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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. 12301) A step back in federal farmland conservation tools for land access. based multinational corporations, private equity firms, and pension funds.

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Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

Community Alliance With Family Farmers (CAFF) has always advocated for a more localized food system. And right now, it’s clear to us that our country has become complicit not only in egregious acts of violence against innocent civilians but also in the destruction of an entire culture’s food sovereignty, its ability to feed itself.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

Although it is generically called the “farm” bill, it is really a food and farm bill that funds programs covering crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as nutrition-assistance support for low-income households. EN: Let’s start by talking about food insecurity.

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