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.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

My partner in our farm, Robbie Jaffe, and I have been very involved in trying to speak for the Cuyama Valley community, defending the science of groundwater depletion and our personal experience as farmers and community-members. Our farm is our personal example of how to do agroecology. But Big Carrot keeps pumping.

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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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Seaweed farms on both coasts are beginning to take hold, tapping into decades of painstaking science, and could help shellfish thrive in waters affected by climate change and pollution. Zero-Waste Grocery Stores in Growth Mode as Consumers Seek to Ditch Plastic Food packaging is a significant contributor to the plastic pollution crisis.

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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. Agriculture at its best can do this.”

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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. For too long, major industrial groups have been dominant, and have pushed a false narrative that harmful chemical inputs and exploitative labor practices and animal treatment protocols are necessarily to feed the world.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Table of Contents The Physical Science Focus on Solutions Strong Environmental Justice Discussions Regional Chapters Northern Great Plains Northeast Southeast Caribbean Midwest Southern Great Plains Northwest Southwest Alaska Hawai’i and the U.S.-Affiliated Fortunately, a focus on agroecological solutions has been gaining some traction.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. Without well-nourished soil, “the global issues of climate change and food security cannot be addressed,” says soil scientist Dr. Rattan Lal. I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Lal recently at a U.N.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When you mix this with the power of science, innovation, and the power of young people, you can make a real difference,” he said. 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.”

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

The latest science highlights a range of genetic mishaps that can happen when we engineer living organisms, like gene insertions and deletions that we never intended. Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way. What could go wrong when we genetically engineer them?

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

An example of a positive externality is the positive impact of agroecological farms on the health of farmworkers and rural residents and on the local ecosystem: clients pay more money for food whose production benefits everyone. I have engaged with hundreds of stakeholders in rural California, agreeing often and disagreeing sometimes.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Transitioning the global food system toward more regenerative and agroecological approaches would cost somewhere around US$250–430 billion per year—a high number, yes, but it’s less than 5 percent of the hidden costs of global food and ag systems. Some of the world’s highest emitters, including the U.S., Let’s look at the numbers.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

The USDA Plan to Better Measure Agriculture’s Impact on the Climate Crisis In this week’s Field Report, news on the agency’s latest effort to invest in soil science and correct discrimination, plus reports on global hunger and pesticides’ impacts on birds.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1. Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System; 2. Growing Food from Seed to Harvest; 3.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

From the beginning, NSAC and its more than 150 members nationwide have called for a farm bill that incorporates lessons learned since 2018 by advancing programs and policies that build resilience and equity, restore competition, invest in science, and renew our environment for current and future generations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

SARE was first created in 1988, and in 1990 Congress authorized the SARE program and determined that it should be funded at no less than $60 million a year, consistent with recommendations by the National Academy of Sciences.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Our hope is that as we work together, and your role evolves over time, we can adjust your job description accordingly.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xlii] Agroecological farming systems have been demonstrated to increase biodiversity on farmed land: plant species increase by 20-95%, insect species by 23%, and pollinator numbers by 30% in organic compared with conventional farming systems. Science of The Total Environment 825, 153955 (2022). xliii] IOFAM Organics Europe.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As I outline in an extensive interview with Victor Suárez , Undersecretary of Agriculture for the new post of Food Self-Sufficiency, government programs now favor small and medium-scale producers, promote agroecology and agroforestry, offer support prices for key food crops, and promote laws to enshrine such policies.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 16, 2024

The 15-member Board informs the USDA’s science and research priorities and is composed of university, non-profit, and industry representatives, and each member serves a 2-3 year appointment. Vanessa attended her first in-person meeting with the Board on June 3-4, 2024 in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

The current science suggests changes to diets will also be needed, with plant-based products to the fore. He argues agroecological systems are “networks of relationships, not collections of practices. By the end of last year, 19.7% Just how far regenerative agriculture can cut emissions from livestock farming remains moot.

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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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020. We’ll return shortly to why that is.)

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. EAT Forum , International EAT is a science-based organization focused on creating fair and sustainable food systems to keep the plant and everyone healthy.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This includes the adoption of agroecological practices that build resilient and adaptable agriculture systems, which can withstand weather whiplash by building healthier soils that retain more nutrients and moisture.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

“Florida’s ban and soon Pennsylvania’s ban of cultured meat clearly demonstrates the prevailing ignorance of science among consumers at large and policy makers (often backed by deep-pocket science doubters),” wrote Kantha Shelke, founder of a food science firm called Corvus Blue, LLC and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, in an email.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology across the continent. They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment.

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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. Meanwhile, in the U.S., This scholarship is a work of trust, even capturing the eco-political movement’s emotional undercurrents. “We We no longer trembled with fear.

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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. Despite these positive steps, RPFSA falls short in several critical areas important to NSAC members. The Senate and House also agree on various funding opportunities for 1890s.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This approach negates recent progress made in 2021 to update the TFP, bringing a science-based and realistic approach to calculating SNAP benefits—and also risks regressing to outdated dietary standards that fail to support the well-being of American families. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A UCS analysis found that the government has invested less than 25 cents out of every thousand dollars in federal research funding in this critical area.

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