Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The project includes three main components: F3 Innovate , focusing on commercializing new technologies with businesses, Ag-TEC, which creates new job pathways with the region’s 13 community colleges, and the Local Farm & Food Initiative (F3 Local), which CAFF will help guide alongside with UC ANR. Image sourced form civileats.co

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Author Peter Scholliers looks at everything from policies and trends that shaped consumer preferences to technological advancements. Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Today, that number is less than 1 percent. Editors Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T.

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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. Register HERE.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ecomodernists believe that it is possible to protect nature and lessen the environmental impact of human development primarily through technological advances. 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.

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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. This reconfiguring of food systems employs carbon-intensive technologies, which can degrade soils and cause deforestation.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

will “put the focus squarely on food systems and agriculture, encouraging governments to update their nationally determined contributions or NDCs, with specific food targets, and gathering commitments from private and public sector stakeholders for funding and technology.” Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? Packaged Food Policy.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Role of Millets in West Africa Seedball technology isn’t new, but it’s unfamiliar to many of the smallholder farmers who meet the caravan. This flexible technology and others like it are being harnessed by farmer-researcher teams to address the specific challenges of farming in semiarid climates.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Young Changemakers: Scaling Agroecology Using Video in Africa and India by Paul Van Mele, Savitri Mohapatra, Laura Tabet, and Blessings Fao Young Changemakers is a collection of stories and insights from 42 young people across the continent of Africa and India who created farmer-to-farmer learning videos to promote agroecology in their respective (..)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

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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Food Tank

AUGUST 25, 2023

The report focuses on five types of innovation: technological, social, policy, consumer, and business and financial. The examples outlined in the report also help to emphasize that while innovations can leverage technology, they do not need to. Innovations don’t always need to be ground-breaking.”

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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

” Read the full article here: [link] The Small Farm Tech Hub at CAFF looks to support an emergent socio-technical ecosystem orientated around agroecology, strengthening local and regional economies, and contributing to a growing innovation commons. The post Civil Eats Op-ed: Want an Agtech Revolution?

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

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. Tostad says “it’s super crucial to always be very context-specific, and not even country-specific, but soil-specific.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Creating jobs and promoting workforce development for youth and aspiring farmers using indoor and hydroponic production technologies. Establishing incubator farms that provide subsidized access to lands, equipment, and water.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 4, 2025

With the Food Technology A-Level scrapped in 2016, there has been a lack of emphasis on food supply chain careers and training. When we surveyed small abattoirs in Wales recently, one owner told us he had wanted to pass the business on to his son, but he felt it was not viable and his son had gone to work elsewhere.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Special in-person events and digital profiles throughout the year highlighted the diverse ecosystem of supporters who forged SHI’s success as a forerunning leader in the field of agroecology and regenerative agriculture. SHI SPOTLIGHTS Damaris Delarosa giving a presentation alongside other fellows during their training in Colombia.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

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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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

This extreme lack of transparency precludes the type of informed, scientific debate that we should be having about this new technology. Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way. We can farm in accordance with these relationships.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 1, 2023

Related ATTRA Resources: Topic Area: Drought Drought and Disaster Resources for Texas Producers The Texas Irrigator’s Pocket Guide Managing Soils for Water: How Five Principles of Soil Health Support Water Infiltration and Storage Soil Moisture Monitoring: Low-Cost Tools and Methods Other Resources: Soil for Water , NCAT Agroecology and Resilient (..)

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Leafy Green Type Portion of the Green to Harvest Texture Flavor Eat When Fresh For Cooking Sweet potato Stem and leaf Soft and buttery Mild, earthy (Yes) Yes Hibiscus Young leaves Smooth Tart Yes Yes Okra Young leaves Rough Grassy, mild Yes Yes Cassava Tough Earthy, bitter Yes Cucuzza/ tenerumi (..)

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

Comic: To Fight Climate Change, This Research Farm Is Pioneering Regenerative Practices In this illustrated report, we explore how the Maine-based Wolfe’s Neck Center is breaking new ground in soil health, soil monitoring, and other climate-smart technologies.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies. NSAC recognizes that precision agriculture has demonstrable benefits for some operations, yet it remains a relatively high-cost conservation solution that does not serve all farmers.

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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. The combined use of solar photovoltaic technology and agriculture allow farmers and energy developers to share the same land.

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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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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

. “[…] a relentless focus on single outcomes, such as carbon, coupled with industry’s instinct to define and standardise, threatens the transformative potential of agroecology,” he wrote recently. He argues agroecological systems are “networks of relationships, not collections of practices.

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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

Board members also visited the North Carolina Agriculture and Technology (A&T) University Center for Post Harvest Technologies and the North Carolina Food Innovation Lab. Several policy priorities were discussed, including progress on the Board’s ‘Relevance and Adequacy’ evaluation of USDA’s precision nutrition efforts.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The purpose of this systems research project led by National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) was to identify and promote practical ways of using regenerative grazing practices to improve soil health and catch and hold more rainwater in soil.

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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 It’s designed to promote GMOs domestically and internationally, not to protect food safety or regulate a radical new technology.” But it may be too late for that.

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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. Their work focuses on enhancing capacity, scaling technologies, facilitating access to technology, and supporting knowledge sharing to design solutions for producers.

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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. Over the past 20 years, aided by leaps in technology, botanists have uncovered plant behaviors that challenge our very idea of what a plant is.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. The resulting 20th century trend was toward decreasing control of seedstock by growers and more and more breeding by land-grant university researchers and–especially toward the end of the 20th century–by large transnational corporations.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. Lab-grown meat made its public debut in 2013, when researchers at Maastricht University served the first lab-grown beef patty on live television.

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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. It develops technologies and innovations tailored to arid and semi-arid regions, promoting sustainable farming practices and enhancing crop productivity.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In 2022, Californias Climate Innovation Program provided $525 million in financial incentives to California-based companies, including agriculture businesses, to develop and commercialize technologies to help California meet its climate goals. You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

Peter Schollierss A History of Bread explores what this staple food can tell us about food policy, consumption patterns, and technology. He finds the culprit to be colonial models of agriculture science, and argues for a place-based agroecological approach. By asking a simple questionwhy?Peter Moseley asks a simple questionwhy?

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Food Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture 111

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.

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