Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

The entire industrial agri-business-based system needs fertilizers and pesticides to function,” Tostado says. CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans. Food production “doesn’t even start at the farm, it starts at the fossils.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. Farmers must undergo an expensive (and sometimes bureaucratic) certification process. However, organic certification is not cheap.

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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. Furthermore, any change to a farmer’s process costs time, money, and carries a level of risk.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units. A typical Nebraskan farm consists of four equal squares, together making up a big square, with the homestead (farmhouse) located in the middle.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla. It’s what’s happens when you have unregulated corporate power.”

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Other steps in the supply chain such as processing, distribution, retail, and the final journey to our table also contribute to emissions. At least a quarter of US methane emissions (which have 27 to 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide) can be directly attributed to livestock production. Agricultural research.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. This would further enable farmers to drastically cut pesticide use and increase habitat availability for a wide range of species. A better system would allow farmers to diversify the range of species they produce.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

There’s no ingredients we’re bringing to the process that’s any different than what an animal uses to grow,” says David Kaplan , a biomedical engineer who leads a cellular agriculture lab at Tufts University. So can we involve them in this process?” He argues that it’s as safe as traditional meat.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. ” That bridge will be crossed if [companies] move forward with a certification process, he said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And with the farm bill process punted to next year and still no end in sight on the many spending bills Congress plans to pass, their future remains uncertain. The IPCC’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Alarm for Food Systems, Too Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? But the bills are partisan, with no backing from Republicans.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The bill also provides new authority to allow USDA to refinance farm loans for distressed borrowers, although some of this flexibility was stripped back during the amendment process. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA. This program has been long authorized but never funded in the farm bill process.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the weeks just before the election, the voices of the Make America Healthy Again Trump backers, fueled by millions in dark money, were telling us that Trump will take on the pesticide industry and toxics in food, will tackle junk food, and much more. Most of those forward-looking goals will have to be pared back.

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