Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For too long, major industrial groups have been dominant, and have pushed a false narrative that harmful chemical inputs and exploitative labor practices and animal treatment protocols are necessarily to feed the world. The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. 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.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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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 Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020. We’ll return shortly to why that is.)

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

“Florida’s ban and soon Pennsylvania’s ban of cultured meat clearly demonstrates the prevailing ignorance of science among consumers at large and policy makers (often backed by deep-pocket science doubters),” wrote Kantha Shelke, founder of a food science firm called Corvus Blue, LLC and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, in an email.

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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. Meanwhile, in the U.S., This scholarship is a work of trust, even capturing the eco-political movement’s emotional undercurrents. “We We no longer trembled with fear.

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