Agroecology Industrial Agriculture Production 
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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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.
Food Tank
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks. In reality, destructive food production practices are not a viable way forward for anyone, panelists said. It’s an incredibly positive story that we don’t hear as much.” One crucial way this story can be told is through flavor.
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.
Modern Farmer
JULY 12, 2024
He denied that meat is making climate change worse, and presented the alternatives to be banned as a plot against the meat industry. One of the things that these folks want to do, is they want to eliminate meat production in the United States,” DeSantis said at his press briefing. The budding industry has raised $3.1
Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G. Drawing from decades of field research, he argues that the answer is in strategies that are based in colonial agricultural science. King, and Jakob A.
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