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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. However, other ecosystem services remain out of the market as there are no buyers.

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New Report Notes the Global Struggle Over Farmland and Food Sovereignty

Food Tank

It finds that land ownership is being consolidated in the hands of a few powerful actors, squeezing out smaller farmers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, and others who rely on traditional farmland. Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Alongside recipes, Sokoh also provides cultural and historical context for the dishes alongside photos from Nigerias landscapes, food markets, and people. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G.

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ORFC 2024: Highlights from this year’s conference

Sustainable Food Trust

The last four decades has mapped the rising power of corporations over our food supply, with civil society more and more unable to significantly shift the agenda – “market power translates into political power”, says Nick Jacobs of IPES-Food. But is the tide finally changing? Has it been undermined by a lack of agreement over its definition?

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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

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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They Once Worked in Factory Farming. Not Anymore.

Modern Farmer

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. The other hurdle is marketing. When you have a contract, you don’t need to market your product, because you only have one buyer.

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Op-Ed: Biologicals 2.0: Why Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes Are Concerning

Food Tank

And given that the biologicals market is booming —with Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, and Corteva spending millions to acquire biologicals companies in recent years—we are likely on the cusp of a wave of new GE biologicals moving from the lab to the field. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S. And BASF sells a 2.0