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Skilled labour in the meat processing sector

Sustainable Food Trust

The UKs food supply chain contributes over 128 billion to the UK economy every year and provides employment for over four million people. With the Food Technology A-Level scrapped in 2016, there has been a lack of emphasis on food supply chain careers and training.

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies. Title 4 – Nutrition Takes a different approach to sustaining catalytic local and regional food supply chain investments than the Senate proposal. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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Views from ORFC: Inspiration for food and farming in 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

So, with sessions on a holistic approach, agroecology and food systems transformation, it really makes sense to be here and see what is happening in the sessions within Wales, and in the broader UK and global context as well. I’ve looked at the way that we farm, and I think that we do come under ‘agroecological’, in a sense.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Precision Agriculture The FFNSA dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies in conservation programs (Sec. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Moreover, despite a steady growth in total factor productivity (TFP, “a ratio of agricultural outputs produced to inputs used“) since 1948 as a result of technological change, climate change has already dampened TFP, and it is expected to decline to pre-1980 levels by 2050 unless adaptation measures adequately respond.

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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

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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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Nestlé is investing CHF1.2bn (US$1.24bn) on what has become known colloquially as ‘regen ag’ across its supply chain, for example. Indeed, the shadow cast by those Scope 3 emissions from food production , as well as the impact of a changing climate on food security and supply chain resilience, will surely focus minds.