Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

” 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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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, responded to the report with an urgent—yet hopeful—message for change: “A healthy diet is unattainable for nearly half of the world’s population—even while food manufacturers and giant agriculture corporations enjoy bonanza profits,” he said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. I think there are a lot of problems with his arguments; the energetic aspects of single-cell protein-manufactured foods are quite problematic.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 4, 2025

They highlighted how little the food sector is regarded as a viable job for life, despite living in an area dominated by food manufacturers, including two local butchers. They said the food industry was never presented as a possible career path at school. There was also an attitude that butchery was male-dominated.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? The first will require baby food manufacturers to regularly test samples of their products for heavy metals and to make the results available both on their website and to the California Department of Health. Food Systems Summit Give Corporations Too Much of a Voice? Packaged Food Policy.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

The appeal is trifold: Seedballs are inexpensive, easily manufactured by farmers, and proven to generate results. Each has a longstanding relationship with the McKnight Foundation’s Global Collaboration for Resilient Food Systems (CRFS), which shares a mission to advance agroecological transformation.

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