Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Current agricultural diversification strategies are already agroecological. Ancient Maya Lowland agriculture sounds very agroecological. Unlocking the inherent potential of plant genetic resources: food security and climate adaptation strategy in Fiji and the Pacific. So not just history, but archaeology as well?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Towards an agroecological approach to crop health: reducing pest incidence through synergies between plant diversity and soil microbial ecology. Maybe someone should pay for that? And some of those trees will be wild.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I am suddenly deluged with items about chocolate, which seems to raise any number of food politics issues. Food safety and product quality remain our highest priorities,… Continue Reading ConsumerLab does its own testing for toxins in Dark Chocolate, Cocoa & Cacao Products. Heavy metals.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Climate Change Conference, Million Belay, General Coordinator for Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa discussed the power of food sovereignty and agroecology. The conversation was co-organized by Food Tank and the Food and Agriculture Pavilion. During a recent fireside conversation at the U.N.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In 2023, 25 philanthropies announced a collaboration to leverage investments, calling for a tenfold increase in funding to support agroecological and regenerative food systems. One solution: the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). Such an ambitious goal is by no means an easy task. The CFS is a U.N. The CFS is a U.N.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) recently awarded the 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize to the Black Dirt Farm Collective and Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP). Each year, the Prize recognizes two grassroots organizations dedicated to advancing food sovereignty and justice. “In

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But then goes all serious with talk of trillions of dollars in benefits from sustainable food systems. Looks like we need something similar for cheese microbes. The Guardian then follows up with mung bean breeding and fart jokes. Diversity not mentioned, alas, though, so one wonders about the point of the previous pieces.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Almost half of all Haitians are going hungry, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC report, for the country. Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. Bauer from the WFP tells Food Tank. “I

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer. Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future. Historian Michelle T.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

The next government should make sustainable food and farming key to the future economy, addressing climate change, restoring nature and re-building public health. Here, we break down the six commitments we want to see from the new administration. Deliver this through Environmental Land Management schemes and a Land Use Framework.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils. human rights conference on food justice in Doha, Qatar.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The food systems advocate, land steward, and beekeeper came of age during the civil rights movement in Kentucky and has spent five decades working for social and racial justice. In 1972, he founded the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. Jim Embry sees tending to land as a sacred and spiritual responsibility.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. and global agencies released the annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (abbreviated as SOFI). The SOFI report monitors and analyzes the world’s efforts to end hunger, achieve food security, and improve nutrition.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Food Tank

JULY 12, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. I’m still reflecting on something Zitouni Ould-Dada, a Senior Advisor at FAIRR, said during Food Tank’s inaugural London Climate Action Week Summit earlier this summer. And as Food Tankers, we need to reflect on ourselves, too.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. He hasn’t written much about food and farming in recent years; this was his big food book. Agriculture at its best can do this.”

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Here, investments focus on tools and tactics that prioritize local and regional food sheds or the well-being and profitability of farmers and communities. Together we need to build a food system that replaces damaging practices with those that rebuild the health of people and the planet itself. Partnerships are in place.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) recently released its report entitled Land Squeeze. Since 2000, land around twice the size of Germany has been snatched up globally in transnational deals, according to IPES-Food’s report. But, the report also touches on newer concepts.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last year, in the lead-up to COP27, the biggest global convening on climate change, many groups worked to call attention to the fact that governments and businesses were not doing nearly enough to address food and agriculture in their plans to tackle the crisis. Food Systems Summit in 2021. consumers of all kinds,” said Nabarro.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Only last year did the food system become a major topic of international debate , during the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. And lawmakers and the U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 25, 2023

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released a report to provide decision makers with a framework to support food and agriculture systems transformation. The new report, Right Innovation, Right Impact, Right Place is the second study from WWF’s Great Food Puzzle series, which analyzes place-based food systems solutions.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America. A farm in La Pedregosa, Panama after transitioning to agroecology practices with SHI. Representing SHI was its Founder and Director of Strategic Growth, Florence Reed.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. I may not talk to them, but I do listen, or, rather, observe them.

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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. So far this year, we have shared numerous stories of creative thinkers across the food system pursuing efforts to reduce damage, increase resilience, and adapt to the new and ever-changing realities.

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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. Pearl Costello, Food Sense Wales What brings you to the ORFC? This afternoon, it was about Welsh farming and food. Here’s what they had to say.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. We expect so much from farmers, and they’re so central to a climate-smart future for the food system and for the planet. And we need to work locally!

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Regenerative agriculture offers a powerful solution to today’s interconnected crises, including the climate crisis, poverty, declining food security, and biodiversity loss. These practices force the soil to produce food with minimal nutrients, and eventually, the soil becomes incapable of supporting plant growth.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

By taking legal action, researching, and building campaigns around the world, CIEL hopes to expose the hold that fossil fuels have on industries, including the food system. The Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF) reports that the food system contributes to 15 percent of the total fossil fuel consumption every year.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward. Understanding farmer knowledge and site factors in relation to soil-borne pests and pathogens to support agroecological intensification of smallholder bean production systems. Using satellites, no doubt.

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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. During a standing-room-only Climate Week NYC event, hosted by Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation, panelists discussed the power of a food justice approach among those working on the ground in the food system.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 9, 2024

Agroforestry and agroecology are practices central to the regenerative agriculture efforts of Initiative 20x20 partner Sustainable Harvest International (SHI). SHI-Belize Field Trainer Indira Pratt kneels at Mrs. Lesbia Mejia’s agroforestry system which includes plantain, pineapple, and annatto, a plant used for food coloring.

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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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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Food waste is a significant source of methane emissions— according to the U.S. As a small economy, my nation faces the brunt.

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