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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Not only are these markets a good fit for smallholder farmers who practice agroecology , but they are also more equitable and accessible for women and youth.

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. . ” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. The same is true for plastic used in food packaging.

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Skilled labour in the meat processing sector

Sustainable Food Trust

For sustainable livestock farming and local meat production to be viable, we need a network of abattoirs and butchers. For sustainable livestock farming and local meat production to be viable, we need a network of abattoirs and butchers. Further, there is now only one training provider in the whole of the UK for smaller abattoirs.

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A Game of Chicken

Sustainable Food Trust

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Who’s going to call out the fact that we cannot, either, techno-fix our way out of such problems with energetically extravagant wheezes like meat-mimicking manufactured food?

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

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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California Decides What ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ Means. Sort of.

Civil Eats

and 8 percent of Californias greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from croplands, industrial vehicles, and livestock. You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic. Secretary Ross said we need to define this so we can have money to reward the practices.