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.

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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.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. A right to food law is nearing approval in the Mexican legislature.

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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 What happens is this: The genetic code of Bt seeds are programmed to produce toxins that attack the stomach linings of crop-munching caterpillars.

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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. Plants have recent memories that they pass on to their seeds. Meanwhile, in the U.S., We no longer trembled with fear. They can hear sounds.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

in his book Decolonizing African Agriculture. He finds the culprit to be colonial models of agriculture science, and argues for a place-based agroecological approach. Gilbert (Forthcoming March 2025) Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

2202) YELLOW FLAG Adds “precision agriculture” to the Conservation Title and creates practices in EQIP. TITLE VII: Research RED FLAG Prioritizes precision agriculture over critical agroecological research. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503). GREEN FLAG Significantly enhances support for 1890s Land Grant Institutions.

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