Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G. King, and Jakob A.

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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. A global shift in food systems, including more industrialized agriculture practices and increased use of agrichemicals, is an additional contributor to the land squeeze.

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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.

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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 It’s designed to promote GMOs domestically and internationally, not to protect food safety or regulate a radical new technology.” But it may be too late for that.

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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. Over the past 20 years, aided by leaps in technology, botanists have uncovered plant behaviors that challenge our very idea of what a plant is.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

Peter Schollierss A History of Bread explores what this staple food can tell us about food policy, consumption patterns, and technology. 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.

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