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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Agroecology Marketing Food Finance 123

Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 4, 2025

However, the decline in people opting to work in the local meat sector and the loss of heritage and artisan skills such as butchery, has widespread implications for food security, sustainability and rural economies. This makes it economically unviable for training providers, particularly if they must travel to remote rural abattoirs.

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Processing Supply Chain Agroecology Food 52

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After his public response to Monbiot’s book elicited a response from readers, Smaje saw an opportunity to write about the role of farming, grazing, and rural places in an increasingly unstable and unpredictable future. But it’s also much more than that. Smaje is a passionate and wryly funny writer.

Food 144

Food Farming Farming Ecology 144

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Estrella “Esther” Penunia, the secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, called consolidation a “big problem” and talked about transforming the food system to “shift the power to the people.” Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? Food Systems Summit Give Corporations Too Much of a Voice?

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Food Pesticide Agroecology Agriculture 143

Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. The appeal is trifold: Seedballs are inexpensive, easily manufactured by farmers, and proven to generate results. The seedball caravan has arrived.

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Fertilizer Seeding Crop Crop Yield 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Moreover, in the wake of the war, the Marshall Plan converted bomb factories to fertilizer factories, rapidly creating an entire system of hybrid seeds and manufactured inputs upon which farmers rapidly became reliant.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 96

Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

This year, the report’s theme is “Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation, and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum” and focuses on how urbanization trends are reshaping the world’s agri-food systems and nutrition security. We need to support farmers. We need to support workers.

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Food Agroecology Ruralism Manufacturing 98