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Brainfood: Food insecurity drivers, Agroecology & fertilizers, Overselling GMOs, Genomic prediction, Striga breeding, Farmers’ preferences, Farmers’ WtP, Diversity metrics

Agricultural Biodiversity

Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity: evidence from 35 countries. The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. …but that doesn’t mean agroecology is wrong. Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it.

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Brainfood: Marroon rice, Dutch aroids, Sicilian saffron, Inca agriculture, Native American agriculture, Mexican peppers, Afro-Mexican agriculture, Sahelian landraces, Small-scale fisheries, Coconut remote sensing

Agricultural Biodiversity

The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana. Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters. Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico.

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From Farms to Flourishing Businesses

Sustainable Harvest International

Family farmers can develop flourishing businesses while supporting local food systems, food sovereignty, and sustainability. SUPPORT FAMILY FARMERS FEEDING THEIR COMMUNITIES Farmers can increase their yields while caring for the land by restoring soil health and adopting agroecological techniques.

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Op-Ed | Why the World’s Food Systems Need to Transition Away from Industrial Agriculture

Food Tank

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Switching to agroecology offers a way to produce food within diverse landscapes growing and nurturing different crops, livestock and fisheries suited to the conditions and communities that live in the area.

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Commentary: With Agriculture Facing a ‘Great Collision,’ More Farmers Seek to Nourish and Heal  

Daily Yonder

Supported by a food-for-work strategy developed by the World Food Program and the Ethiopian government, Abebe and his neighbors began terracing their gently sloping land and digging shallow water pans to collect rainwater whenever it came. As the rains vanished and temperatures soared, the topsoil hardened like pavement. In the U.S.,

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Relocalizing the Food System to Fight a ‘Farm-Free Future’

Civil Eats

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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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

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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