Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The last four decades has mapped the rising power of corporations over our food supply, with civil society more and more unable to significantly shift the agenda – “market power translates into political power”, says Nick Jacobs of IPES-Food. But is the tide finally changing? Has it been undermined by a lack of agreement over its definition?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. In addition to the overall drop in US public agricultural R&D investment, organic research continues to be significantly underfunded compared to its share of the food sales market.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Agroecological Practices Agroforestry and windbreaks : Integrating trees and shrubs into agricultural landscapes provides numerous benefits, including wind protection, erosion control, enhanced biodiversity, and potential additional income from timber or fruits. This can be a concern for farmers who rely on a consistent income.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

So, with sessions on a holistic approach, agroecology and food systems transformation, it really makes sense to be here and see what is happening in the sessions within Wales, and in the broader UK and global context as well. I’ve looked at the way that we farm, and I think that we do come under ‘agroecological’, in a sense.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

And beyond the diversification associated with cropping fields, adding livestock diversity into a system can reduce challenges like pests and diseases while allowing for nutrient cycling from livestock to soil and back to crop or forage species. Silvopasture, or mixed trees and livestock, is one form of agroforestry.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This is because productive arable farmland, that could be used for growing food to be fed directly to people, is used for growing lower grade livestock cereals, from which only 17-30% of calories are returned for human consumption as meat or milk. Examples of good practice are already flourishing in organic and agroecological enterprises.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” Photography by Shutterstock/Ground Photo.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

4302) Provides modest funding increases to popular local food access initiatives such as the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program and the Community Food Projects Program, but at the expense of individuals nationwide who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farmers’ self-sufficiency and resilience in the face of market shocks and extreme climate events will be essential components of the UK’s future food security, and the social stability, health and growth the Government seeks. xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature. Building markets, and key infrastructure, for cover crops such as oats and peas will also help facilitate their wider adoption.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Drop a pin anywhere in Cornwall, England and you are likely to find a higgledy-piggledy arrangement of small green fields separated by wiggly lines of dark green hedgerows, hinting at the pastureland for the livestock-based agriculture which predominates there.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Twenty-five leading philanthropies issued a joint call for a step-change in funding for regenerative and agroecological approaches, which currently receive just $44bn of the $250-430bn they need. The launch of the COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health , which again represents the first time this topic has formally been on the agenda.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Chris Smaje is a social scientist and small-scale farmer and grower who writes widely about what he calls ‘low-energy localism’. over that period).[2]

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Globally, nature is being destroyed by intensive farming, often undertaken by farmers who are forced to push their land ever harder by market forces demanding more produce for less reward. But there is a more fundamental value issue here. Most of this land is managed as nature reserves by conservation bodies.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Carbon offsetting schemes are already being used to market huge numbers of products and we believe that building soil carbon stocks is no different,” he explains. Just how far regenerative agriculture can cut emissions from livestock farming remains moot. However, this needs to be well regulated and done with “rigour,” he adds.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

Buy-protect-sell is a measure that Young Farmers advocated for in the 2018 Farm Bill, alongside our partners, that enables land trusts to utilize ACEP funds to move quickly in getting priority farmland off the open market and facilitate a sale to a farmer or rancher. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. They also promote gender equity, youth empowerment, and market access. Fairtrade International , International Co-owned by more than 1.8

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology across the continent. Made up of more than 7,700 members, the organization advocates for better policies, promotes climate-smart agriculture, and supports market access for their members.

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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. Guilbeault ventured to Silicon Valley to examine veganism’s transformation from a social movement to a market-based model, and inside the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This is the second part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. Called Resilient food futures: agroecology and climate finance for ambitious NDCs 3.0, Read part one.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The USDA spent the most money—6 percent of its total purchases, or $270 million—on food from Cargill, which is the country’s largest private company and has long been accused of creating unfair markets for farmers and perpetuating deforestation in South America. The storms can also destroy crops and harm livestock.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. Thats an unfair market advantage, she said. Secretary Ross said we need to define this so we can have money to reward the practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, provides an overview on this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference, including one of the SFT’s sessions, Grazing for Good, which took a closer look at the integral relationship between livestock and the biodiversity it supports. You cant do both and his admission is at best problematic.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

UPFs have become so dominant in our diets, taking up prime shelf-space and marketing budgets in the supermarkets for food that is inherently addictive. Small-scale agroecological farming sites with housing Meanwhile, in Powys, there is also exciting work being done. What can we learn by putting Wales under the spotlight?

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2025

In that moment of crisis, the resilience and adaptability those farms , ranches , markets, and food hubs demonstrated sparked new policies and investments in local and regional food systems. Payments to grantees in the $3.1 Farmers and farm groups are also waiting to find out if new contracts they spent months working on will be thrown out.

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