Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. Agroecology is an integrated approach that combines ecological and social principles for sustainable agriculture and food systems.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the 19702, in the wake of the Bracero immigration program’s end, an economic downturn, market concentration, and new technological development, researchers at the University of California developed an industrial-scaled mechanical tomato harvester, which added fuel to the fire, pushing farmers “to get big or get out”.

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The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Food that is grown with agroecological practices by small and midsize farmers, harvested by farmworkers who are paid fairly and have labor protections, and distributed locally or regionally to all communities is key to healthy lives and a healthy planet. Establishing a new market is challenging—it takes time, energy, and funding.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. Laying the Groundwork for a New Market Such a view of nut trees in the South was once much more widespread. nut production became concentrated in California.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

But did you know that our gardens have delectable green vegetables available for harvesting and consumption while we wait for the fruits to grow. Harvest the leaves when young and tender, as older leaves can be fibrous. Usually, you have them when harvesting large amounts of root carrots for storage.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Sustainable Water Management Water Conservation Practices: Implementing methods like mulching, rainwater harvesting, and drought-resistant crops to reduce water usage. Resistance to change : Farmers may face resistance from within their communities or markets, where conventional practices are deeply entrenched.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

2023 was an exciting 26th year for Sustainable Harvest International (SHI). In Honduras, many of the women participant farmers have exceeded expectations and demonstrated their ability to create, market, and sell unique products. We expanded to new communities, growing our current partnering farming families to in Central America.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

Comic: Adapting Corn for Tortillas—and New Markets—in the Pacific Northwest In this illustrated report, we explore how the Organic Seed Alliance is working with local farmers, scientists, and chefs to adapt crops to new environments—and the changing climate. Some Farmers Are Skipping Tomatoes and Eggplants. Their Reasons May Surprise You.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden Find Sankofa Community Farm’s chemical-free produce June through November at the Bartram’s Village and Clark Park farmers markets. Read more → Soil Generation’s Agroecology From the People Land Based Jawns “ Land Based Jawns is rooted in Spirit and the many spiritual practices of our ancestors.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

Those crops, which are staples of farmers’ markets throughout the summer, are also profitable for farmers. Her main planting season runs from April through late June, and she no longer spends 10-hour days planting, harvesting, and selling at farmers’ markets in the summer. I couldn’t keep martyring myself.”

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3. Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature. Building markets, and key infrastructure, for cover crops such as oats and peas will also help facilitate their wider adoption.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Twenty-five leading philanthropies issued a joint call for a step-change in funding for regenerative and agroecological approaches, which currently receive just $44bn of the $250-430bn they need. After all, by then, we will be at the end of 2025, with just four harvests left to go until we hit – or miss – those aspirational 2030 targets.

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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 The rules governing the development and sale of GM foods date to the early 1990s, when Monsanto was preparing to bring the first major GM crop to market, Roundup Ready soybeans.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change. food law and policy.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology across the continent. Made up of more than 7,700 members, the organization advocates for better policies, promotes climate-smart agriculture, and supports market access for their members.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Guilbeault ventured to Silicon Valley to examine veganism’s transformation from a social movement to a market-based model, and inside the U.S.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Last December, LVEJO received the national Food Sovereignty Prize , awarded for grassroots, agroecological solutions from the people most harmed by the injustices of the global food system, according to a press release from the U.S. LVEJO is now also a landmark for Little Village. Food Sovereignty Alliance. and Let us breathe!

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2025

By November, the bulk of the Mid-Atlantic harvest had been sold. The USDA had also funded a related initiative set up to move local farm harvests into food banks, called the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program. Payments to grantees in the $3.1 This has been highly successful, she said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In India, the plan to remove certain kinds of price supports and government markets for farmers resulted in the world’s largest protest , involving 250 million people, led by farmers’ movements but soon spreading across society. This cheap produce will flood the markets and put American farmers out of business.

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