Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Philanthropy can help tilt the incentives needed to usher in a regenerative and agroecological transition that centers farmers and landscape stewards and recognizes a shared set of principles. It is possible to forge a more sustainable path. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. I may not talk to them, but I do listen, or, rather, observe them.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is because these flavanols are lost during processing.” This also came in a e-mail, this time a press release from Chocolate Scorecard , a group that rates chocolate companies on practices related to traceability, wages, child labor, deforestation, agroecology, etc. Not sure what to make of the article.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The rich stain was a natural consequence of how Holt spent his fall: processing thousands of pounds of black walnuts through the Asheville Nuttery. 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.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

He investigates how UK food culture has grown fragmented, relying on both ultra-processed and diverse, high-quality foods. Feeding Britain argues that, although it will take time, transforming the UK food system is in the public interest and is a process that must begin now.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I am a professional agroecologist trained in ecosystem processes with experience in sustainable agriculture. 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.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The declaration is key to what will be a two-year process through which countries will converge their work on climate and their work on food in ways that serve the interests of farmers and. Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? consumers of all kinds,” said Nabarro. Food Systems Summit Give Corporations Too Much of a Voice?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

” He eventually bought a mill from a grain farmer who went out of business, but finding the other equipment necessary for both farming and processing grain was an ongoing struggle. Prior to that, they had all either harvested by hand, an intensely laborious process, or hired someone with a combine.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

New Initiatives In October 2024, a documentary on SHIs agroecology efforts in Central America premiered. The process offered an opportunity for the team to reevaluate priorities and set new goals under the leadership of newly appointed Executive Director, Janeen Simon. Roots of Renewal , produced by David E.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. These are costs that are very limited or non-existent on small-scale, organic agroecology farms. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs. Among the 12.6

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Agroecology Hub With more secure local markets, farmers can focus on production and new tools (and vice-versa). We’re working with Fresno BIPOC Produce to scale up operations as a local aggregator to help farmers reach new markets. Image sourced form civileats.co

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The exact meaning of rewilding can be difficult to pin down, but properly speaking , it involves the landscape-scale restoration of the full (or near enough full) suite of natural processes and species that would be present were it not for human activity.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Once the Clean Water Act passed in 1972, many chemicals and toxins that had flowed freely from paper mills into Maine’s rivers started to be processed through sewage plants. Further studies need to be done and the process of complete soil rehabilitation would likely take several years. The sources of contamination were numerous.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, organic production, silvopasture, agroforestry and “other agroecological systems” are also listed among solutions. Fortunately, a focus on agroecological solutions has been gaining some traction.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

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. And quality, to them, is linked to how it is processed, because it is fundamentally for human consumption.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of industrial-scale monoculture. (

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Of course, some of these processes are natural—but healthy soils have the resiliency to resist excess erosion, whereas degraded soils are more vulnerable to even natural climatic cycles. Soil erosion specifically refers to the removal of topsoil from the land’s surface, which can be caused by factors like water, wind, and tillage.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

That we can tinker with genetic regulatory processes does not mean we understand the complexity of the system. Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way. And then there’s the environment into which we’ll release these GE microbes.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This project will enhance operations of community urban farms, advancement of ancestral and emerging technologies germane to desert agroecology, and increase access to fresh and locally grown produce, while inspiring a new generation of urban agriculture practitioners, farmers, and local food advocates.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans. Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes. These efforts encompass small scale farming, agroecology, agroforestry, and reforestation. And they have children’s program that introduces young people to edible playground gardens.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO On-Farm Research While CAFF’s preliminary on-farm research trials have wrapped up, we’ve continued to visit no-till farms in Northern California in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Agroecology Lab. Project collaborators Sara Tiffany (left) and Cole Rainey (right) partition soil samples by depth at Singing Frogs Farm.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Now to have come through it, it’s been a long process,” says Boles. “It But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming. The Boles, who raised their last flock for Tyson about nine years ago, are proof that getting out is possible.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The draft plan, released in November 2022 , uplifts Philadelphia’s rich history of urban farming and gardening, and clearly defines the resources, policies, processes, and programs necessary to sustain it for future generations. Read more → John Boyd, Jr.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

However, it’s crucial to ensure proper processing to remove cyanide. Cassava Leaves Cassava leaves can be eaten if they are ground and cooked thoroughly. Simmering the leaves makes a thick stew or soup. Most often, leaves are ground-blanched and frozen to preserve them.

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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. Meanwhile, cheap processed food is making too many of us sick, at immense cost.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These properties can get trapped in the probate process and reside under a clouded title, which makes them ineligible for bank loans or most government programs. Predatory speculators exploit this by finding heirs willing to sell their shares, leading to the loss of land from people who want it.

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

This position will focus on the use and development of appropriate farm technology best suited to the needs of small acreage farmers, including but not limited to; open source, grassroots agricultural technology and innovation, tools adapted to agroecology, digital, software, hardware, on-field production tools from hand tools to robotic carts, etc.

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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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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. A food system is made up of the processes, connections, relationships, and communities related to how the food we eat gets to our tables. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Experimenting with water conservation practices at the UTRGV Agroecology Garden and the Hub of Prosperity farm helps our community understand the importance of implementing water conservation projects. This large water tank is connected to a rain gutter and aids in the collection of rainwater that can be used to water the farm’s crops.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

To support this process, as well as testing the value of the GFM framework to engage farmers on sustainability, our trials this year will also use our ‘proof of concept’ assessment tool to explore the value of a risk assessment on the state of the farm system. And for agroecological farmers and growers, this poses some difficulty.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The first post details an overview of the markup process, the bill as a whole, and its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law. NSAC believes strongly that grazers need dependable access to technical assistance and that such funding should not be subject to the whims of the annual appropriations process.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2023

At a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change event , he said that agroecology has three legs: It’s a “practice,” a “cutting-edge science,” and a “social movement.” Yesterday, someone I deeply admire, Million Belay , said something that stuck with me. He’s the General Coordinator for the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

We believe in the importance of an agroecological food system because of its potential to meet the nation’s food needs, whilst providing healthier diets, sequestering carbon and making room for much more wildlife.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

Last year, Californians for Alternatives to Toxics (CATs), a nonprofit that focuses on chemical pollution, sued Reichardt Duck Farm, a 373-acre duck-processing facility in Sonoma County. CAFOs, local and national, continue to drive retail prices down below levels that can sustain small, humane, agroecological producers,” he said.

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