Agroecology Fertilizer Industrial Agriculture 
Food Tank
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. We need to rethink our food systems and transition to diversified agroecological systems that can ensure we address this twin challenge, and to provide nutritious diets to a growing population without destroying the planet.
Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
Growing vast monocultures of potatoes requires synthetic fertilizers whose production requires massive amounts of energy. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production.
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Sustainable Harvest International
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Conventional agriculture heavily relies on synthetic chemicals in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. SHI-Belize partner farmer Juvini Acosta reforests land affected by conventional agriculture. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet.
Sustainable Food Trust
JULY 2, 2024
As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.
Food Tank
JUNE 10, 2024
Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology. Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. The report highlights four drivers contributing to land consolidation globally.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. He continued talking and shared information about a community-wide project to convert Allensworth into a regenerative agriculture hub.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
MAY 28, 2024
Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If But beneath the buzzwords is an industry-messaging strategy from the 1970s, crafted to play on anxieties over inflation and food shortages. It’s a powerful pitch.
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