Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A sustainable blue cheese industry needs more microbial diversity. The Open Source Seed Initiative gets written up in The Guardian. Looks like we need something similar for cheese microbes. The Guardian then follows up with mung bean breeding and fart jokes.

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Agroecology Crop Seeding Food 182

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In 2023, 25 philanthropies announced a collaboration to leverage investments, calling for a tenfold increase in funding to support agroecological and regenerative food systems. On agroecology, for instance, the CFS had produced policy recommendations on agroecology and other innovative approaches.

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Agroecology Food Mechanics Processing 87

Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. Jean-Baptiste has been working with smallholder farmers across the country to promote agroecology as a solution to hunger and poverty for four decades. Hunger in Haiti is not an accident.

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Food Agroecology Ecology Agriculture 111

Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Asheville-based initiative seeks to mitigate climate change by helping farmers establish, monitor, and verify carbon sequestration through tactics like agroforestry in the Southern Appalachians, in hopes of creating the country’s first regional carbon market. It’s a potentially lucrative opportunity.

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Marketing Harvest Harvesting Harvester 92

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Understanding farmer knowledge and site factors in relation to soil-borne pests and pathogens to support agroecological intensification of smallholder bean production systems. Doesn’t cover banana bunchy top but I’m sure the main conclusion that better modelling and monitoring are needed applies. Using satellites, no doubt.

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biotechnology Farming Farming Crop 162

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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Agroecology Food Livestock Farming 78

Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. Agroecology is an integrated approach that combines ecological and social principles for sustainable agriculture and food systems.

Food 98

Food Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture 98

Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the 19702, in the wake of the Bracero immigration program’s end, an economic downturn, market concentration, and new technological development, researchers at the University of California developed an industrial-scaled mechanical tomato harvester, which added fuel to the fire, pushing farmers “to get big or get out”.

Family Farming 98

Family Farming Farming Farming Technology 98

The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Food that is grown with agroecological practices by small and midsize farmers, harvested by farmworkers who are paid fairly and have labor protections, and distributed locally or regionally to all communities is key to healthy lives and a healthy planet. Establishing a new market is challenging—it takes time, energy, and funding.

Marketing 89

Marketing Food Mechanics Agroecology 89

Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Community Farmers Markets (CFM) Serving as an umbrella organization, CFM was established to meet the demand for more efficiently managed, community-based and sustainable farmers’ markets in Atlanta. CFM reports that in 2023, they served more than 65,000 in-person shoppers and over 160 vendors at weekly markets.

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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As countries negotiate and announce their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or environmental action plans, they must meaningfully uplift agroecological and regenerative approaches, not just pay lip service. We need to integrate soil health into international negotiations like the ones being discussed here at COP29.

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Finance Food Agroecology Agriculture 95

The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I feature dry farming in a chapter of my textbook of Agroecology that I used in my teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz, for over 30 years. Our farm is our personal example of how to do agroecology. Join the boycott of the carrots of these two corporations.

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Water Rights Agroecology Farming Farming 97

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. The report highlights four drivers contributing to land consolidation globally. Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired.

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Farmland Food Agroecology Agriculture 85

ATTRA

JULY 15, 2023

Alexis Racelis is an associate professor of agroecology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a member of NCAT’s Board of Directors. His work helping farmers grow food with less water and under more extreme heat conditions is featured in an article in The Texas Tribune.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters, and importers in international markets.

Production 40

Production Agroecology Grain Food 40

Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks. Over the years, us as chefs have seen so many ingredients come in and out of the market due to climate,” says Chef Brian Fowler of BLACKBARN. It’s an incredibly positive story that we don’t hear as much.”

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Farming Farming Food Agroecology 98

Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

“She thought that if we’re going to be able to end factory farming, it’s not just about creating a different system that runs parallel, like you might see a lot of organizations doing when they talk about agroecology or regenerative farming [and] things of that nature,” says Whitley. The other hurdle is marketing.

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Farming Farming Poultry Contract Farming 131

Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

And given that the biologicals market is booming —with Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, and Corteva spending millions to acquire biologicals companies in recent years—we are likely on the cusp of a wave of new GE biologicals moving from the lab to the field. They are also claiming their leadership in regenerative agriculture.

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Pesticide Fertilizer Acre Crop 98

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.

Agriculture 97

Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 97

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.

Food 59

Food Farming Farming Agroecology 59

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. That’s partly because the only thing you can produce in upland Britain that you can sell realistically in global markets is sheep, so we’re driven in that way.

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Food Farming Farming Ecology 124

ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

These products are best marketed directly to consumers, local chefs, or specialty markets, although I hope this will change. For instance, amaranth is sometimes called “Asian Spinach,” which can help buyers understand how to cook it.

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Cash Crop Crop Harvest Harvesting 75

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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Farming Farming Ecology Construction 98

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. Laying the Groundwork for a New Market Such a view of nut trees in the South was once much more widespread. Acorn is a wildness supplement—Vitamin W.”

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Forage Processing Yield Production 123

Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

But as Civil Eats’ reporting has shown, the food and agriculture system is full of examples of how farmers, ranchers, fishers, chefs, restaurants, grocery stores, and consumers are addressing climate change, with strategies that sequester carbon, slash emissions, save water, reduce plastics, and open new markets. Will It Scale Up?

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Science 100

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? Other states and the federal government sometimes follow, and because of the state’s market size, food companies typically choose to change their products and processes for the entire nation. Read More: The IPPC’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Alarm for Food Systems, Too Did the First U.N.

Food 99

Food Pesticide Agroecology Agriculture 99

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). Including the A-Plus Act ( Sec.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 102

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

This marks an increase of more than 30% in the past decade as chicken has been marketed as a more compassionate, healthy and ecological alternative to red meat. But the change is already coming from farmers with smaller flocks, independent butchers and the people behind market stalls, who focus on a more localised chicken food chain.

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Beyond farm production and conservation services, they also partner with the Food and Nutrition Service and Agricultural Marketing Service to support the development of community networks that connect producers with local food access initiatives.

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Agriculture Agriculture Production Compost 59

Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden Find Sankofa Community Farm’s chemical-free produce June through November at the Bartram’s Village and Clark Park farmers markets. Read more → Soil Generation’s Agroecology From the People Land Based Jawns “ Land Based Jawns is rooted in Spirit and the many spiritual practices of our ancestors.”

Food 52

Food Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture 52

Caff

JANUARY 17, 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].

Technology 52

Technology Farming Farming Agroecology 52

Food Tank

AUGUST 25, 2023

The women were also able to promote traditional foods by incorporating the Yerba Mate leaves into a variety of nutritious products and sell them to local and international markets. The examples outlined in the report also help to emphasize that while innovations can leverage technology, they do not need to.

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Food Technology Agriculture Agriculture 98

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber. Searching for market in Mexico The scarcity of water is just one of the hurdles facing vanilla production in the La Chinantla region. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Plantation Production Crop Food 74

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods. Although FFNSA maintains level funding for OREI , it does not reflect the growth of the organic market since 2018 or the current challenges facing organic farmers.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 97

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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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Food 52

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Denise and Kayode participated in the ALBA program , a land-based training for future agroecology small farmers. Allensworth is in the process of purchasing land to create an educational farm based on agroecology. The farm will have a market center to sell locally grown produce and artisan goods made by residents.

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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 106