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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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Governor and California Department of Food and Agriculture seeded an early investment in the initiative, which provoked community discussions and a 2020 “vision” document—deliberated over by academic, agricultural, environmental justice, farmworker, government, and philanthropic institutions—to guide it and future investments.

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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. version of its 40-million-acre Poncho®/VOTiVO® seed treatment that includes a GE bacteria aimed at improving plant health. Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

However, it’s crucial to ensure proper processing to remove cyanide. Winter Squash Leaves All parts of the squash family plants are edible, from leaves to stems, flowers, fruit, skin, and seeds. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3. 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. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Residents of Southwest Philly can also get low-cost raised garden beds , soil and seed starts from Sankofa to start growing their own food at home, or can sign up to join Sankofa’s on-site community garden. Read more → John Boyd, Jr. Follow Soil Generation on social media for updates on the final Urban Ag plan, plus their upcoming offerings.

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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. From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising.

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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. Their hooves create breaks in the turf, making niches for seeds so that they can germinate.

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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. Snails live in pens that measure 3m x 40m, as shown here.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. A right to food law is nearing approval in the Mexican legislature.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a two-part series about seed breeding. This series will explore the history of seed breeding in the US, the impacts of consolidation and concentration of seed breeding on farmers and our food systems, and what a more democratic seed breeding system might look like.

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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.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Plants have recent memories that they pass on to their seeds. Meanwhile, in the U.S., We no longer trembled with fear. They can hear sounds.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Last December, LVEJO received the national Food Sovereignty Prize , awarded for grassroots, agroecological solutions from the people most harmed by the injustices of the global food system, according to a press release from the U.S. Semillas de Justicia (Seeds of Justice) , a half-acre community garden and farm, sits just outside the park.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As our diets in the UK are increasingly oriented around ultra-processed food, comprising over half of the calories consumed by adults and, more concernedly, over 65% of those consumed by children , there needs to be far more learning and engagement in what constitutes healthy eating. It seems a sea change isnt far off.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Notably, this includes provisions from the Agricultural Resilience Act , the Organic Science Research and Investment Act , and the Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act. The Senate proposal also offers meaningful steps forward to address the hyper-consolidation of seed systems that has led to a dominant culture of seed commodification.

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Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past several months, farming has become nearly impossible in Gaza, cut off from water, fuel, equipment and processing, as well as from their farmland. REVIEW social media posts from farmers and allies Cultural Roots Nursery , Soul Fire Farm , Foodshed , Agroecology Commons, and Second Generation Seeds.

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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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