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

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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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I learned about this one from Food Safety News (FSN): Consumer Reports finds one-third of chocolate is high in heavy metals : CR today released test results that have it urging Hershey’s to get harmful lead and cadmium out of its chocolate products. Which dark chocolate and cocoa products are best? Be careful!

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Farmers like Abebe Moliso, whose family land in the Ethiopian highlands became severely degraded from years of monocropping, overgrazing, and slashing the forests in the pursuit of new productive fields, all of which radically changed the local climate. The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. But they can’t do it alone.

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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. It is a social and political production,” says Jean-Baptiste. Almost 5 million Haitians are food insecure and require immediate assistance. Hunger in Haiti is not an accident.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Regenerative farming, however, can reduce the decline of natural capital on farmland, enhances many ecosystem services, climate resiliency, and improves productivity and profitability. Farmers can realize some of this value through increased productivity and incomes via improved natural capital (e.g.,

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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. Think about plants in nature.

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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 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. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While this way of growing vanilla is helpful in times of climate change, this year, local producers lost the majority of their production due to the extreme heat in the region. Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. Francisco Mendoza and his daughters at the vanilla plantation.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

SCN works with nonprofits and schools in the region to integrate farming and food production into their work and advocates for local policy that supports school gardens, urban farms, and community gardens and helps get fresh produce to food insecure residents. We need a huge paradigm shift in both the philosophy and the practices of farming.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

. “A transformation is needed—with social protection schemes that guarantee the right to food for the world’s poorest, debt cancellation, and investment in diverse, resilient agroecological food production.” How, as Olivier De Schutter asked, can we guarantee food to those facing poverty?

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 4, 2025

While many organisations are working to reconnect people with where their food comes from, educating children through farm visits and reviving an interest in food production as a viable career, there is an important part of the food chain that often gets overlooked.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For example, OUAIP works with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to ensure support for all types of agricultural practices regardless of the size of an operation, where it is located, or the techniques used for production. Farmer Ibrahim at the Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, KS.

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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.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But it’s not clear whether this focus on food will draw attention away from the world’s superpowers and their responsibility to immediately, rapidly decrease fossil fuel production. degree warming target set in the Paris Agreement due to the state oil company’s plan to continue increasing oil and gas production. Packaged Food Policy.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Urban ag is any kind of food production space within a city, inclusive of commercial farms that grow and sell directly to consumers, non-profit farms that serve a broader mission, community gardens, school gardens and even vacant lots turned into thriving personal gardens or homesteads. Timothy Bowles, a professor of Agroecology at U.C.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The need for greater access to land, so that younger generations can have a role in equitable and accessible food production – most particularly in agroecological food production – is critical and demands that we find new pathways beyond ownership to invite their participation.

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

Partnering with nearly 1,000 farming families in Honduras, SHI has helped restore over 8,000 acres of land by promoting agroecological practices, including the planting of over 2.2 They’ll be able to see agroecology and all its bounteous rewards in practice. million trees. 45% of these graduates are youth.

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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. What are the implications if we’re talking about more industrial food production—higher yields and less land? Agriculture at its best can do this.”

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

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks. In reality, destructive food production practices are not a viable way forward for anyone, panelists said. It’s an incredibly positive story that we don’t hear as much.” One crucial way this story can be told is through flavor.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Because despite some of the most agriculturally productive lands in the country, many of the region’s 13,000+ farmers are struggling with high costs and climate change, unemployment remains high, and families are hungry. Agroecology Hub With more secure local markets, farmers can focus on production and new tools (and vice-versa).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

The primary message regarding agriculture as a whole is that the risks to agricultural production are rising and will continue to rise as a result of climate change. Drought and torrential rain will frequently reduce productivity in all regions. high-efficiency irrigation and genetic modification) rather than systems approaches.

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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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

nut production became concentrated in California. One firm—the Stockton, Missouri-based Hammons Product Company , which still relies on hand-harvested wild black walnuts —is essentially all that’s left of the old nut economy. There have been successes on each front.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

These partners assist TREE participants in diversifying their agri-food systems and evaluating potential organic products for the market. New Initiatives In October 2024, a documentary on SHIs agroecology efforts in Central America premiered. Yale Alumni Service Corps volunteers join traditional celebrations with SHIs Panama program.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Sometimes, though, it’s the best and only option for the land and its long-term productivity. Some acreages are inherently less productive than others.” Created by Congress in 1985, the CRP asks agricultural producers to voluntarily take environmentally sensitive land out of active production and conserve it.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

By the spring of 2022, more than 50 farms in Tier 1 areas learned they had high levels of forever chemicals in their products, their fields, and their water. Some farms were able to stop production temporarily while they identified possible solutions. Today, many of the Maine farms originally affected are operational again.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At its core, it’s about working with nature, rather than against it, to achieve sustainable and resilient food production. Market access : Accessing markets that appreciate and pay premiums for regeneratively grown products can be a challenge, especially for small-scale farmers.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

This guide explains the sustainability of specific food products and demonstrates how a business can successfully communicate their practices to customers. Using real-world examples, this book debunks myths surrounding the food system and provides practical advice for working toward more sustainable processes.

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RR2CS

JULY 18, 2023

They all seem to be part of the vast landscape of good land stewardship practices, like sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, agroecology, permaculture, and regenerative agriculture. 16:30 – Dr. Bainard shares seeding considerations when it comes to productivity. It’s understandable! It's understandable!

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, the cost of farm production expenses are expected to reach a record high in 2023. Over at Tool Legit, the farmers share similar goals of farming ecologically and productively at a human scale, which lends to knowledge-sharing, too. “It isn’t working for many small producers. The median farming income in the U.S.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 9, 2024

Agroforestry and agroecology are practices central to the regenerative agriculture efforts of Initiative 20x20 partner Sustainable Harvest International (SHI). Economic benefits include increase in the number of crops, and with more production comes the ability to create or expand a family-owned business.

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Located in Rogersville, New Brunswick, her farm Ferme Terre Partagee currently operates as a coop based on common values and objectives including peasant agroecology and food sovereignty. 29:05 – Why doesn’t Rébeka sell her product to the big grocery store chain? 11:55 – Rébeka shares her farming story.

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