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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

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Today, that number is less than 1 percent. Editors Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T.

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The Power of Millets and Farmer Research Collaboration

Food Tank

The Role of Millets in West Africa Seedball technology isn’t new, but it’s unfamiliar to many of the smallholder farmers who meet the caravan. This flexible technology and others like it are being harnessed by farmer-researcher teams to address the specific challenges of farming in semiarid climates.

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

Food Tank

This extreme lack of transparency precludes the type of informed, scientific debate that we should be having about this new technology. Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S. And BASF sells a 2.0

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation. 2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies. 2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies.

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. Lab-grown meat made its public debut in 2013, when researchers at Maastricht University served the first lab-grown beef patty on live television.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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