Modern Farmer

JULY 26, 2024

Regenerative aquaculture is giving back to the environment, rather than just taking from or having a neutral effect on it, and requires no or very minimal inputs to grow food,” explains Kieffer. Telling stories of the people, practices, science, and conservation along our coast over a meal of foraged and farmed seaweeds is truly a dream.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. The Scientists Who Kickstarted American Kelp Farming The science behind this boom in seaweed cultivation began in New England nearly 50 years ago.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 1, 2024

We need to find ways to support new entrants, whether it’s in wild-capture fisheries or aquaculture. The USDA has been collecting similar data [for agriculture] for decades, and seafood, except for aquaculture, has been sidelined from that process. Many of our management decisions are based on stock assessment science.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

The ASLF approached McPherson this year to include an aquaculture opportunity. He appreciates the opportunity to share knowledge, since farmed aquaculture is still a very young industry and its connection to and overlap with agriculture is not yet well explored. It also added five urban farms to its roster.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The grant, which will provide funding through June 2028, will help the college to enhance its current culinary, horticulture and science curriculum with new classwork that will explore sustainable food production and safety practices, waste management and agribusiness. “We director of the Agriculture Science program.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Their most recent venture into hybridized farming was in 2021 with the launch of the new micro-farming system that combines aquaculture with vertical farming. Combining aquaculture and regenerative agriculture, the farm grows fish and plant crops in a closed loop system. Credit: Hudson Valley Fisheries.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 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. Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest seaweed aquaculture business in the country, has solved several challenges that seaweed farmers face in Maine and other states.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Yesterday, discussions centered on the role of youth in driving climate action in the Global South; how financial, scientific, and policy progress can enable aquaculture and blue food systems; and the need to put farmers first. We need to draw on multi-generational knowledge, from our parents, grandparents, and Indigenous traditions.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

Algae also offer environmental benefits: The organisms can capture carbon dioxide from the environment, acting as a carbon sink , according to the Carbon Capture Science & Technology journal. Research from the University of Connecticut reveals that blue-green algae can help treat cardiovascular and fatty liver diseases.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 5, 2023

“What I would like to see most of all is for food policy makers and policy experts to not even think twice about including blue foods in their overall strategies for our food system,” says Roz Naylor, William Wrigley Professor in Earth System Science at Stanford University and co-Chair of the Blue Food Assessment.

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AgriLife Today

AUGUST 6, 2024

AgriLife Extension expert discusses bryozoans — colonies of tiny Texas wildlife The post Unraveling the mystery of Texas’ cryptic freshwater blobs appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

While the North American seaweed industry remains tiny by global standards — 95 percent of farmed seaweed comes from Asia — it is the fastest-growing type of aquaculture in the United States. coast, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. But the industry is at an inflection point.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They have made engagement on “restorative aquaculture” one of their philanthropic planks, funding numerous ventures on both sides of the notebook. When it comes to groundfish especially, all fisheries policy today is based entirely on the kind of policies [Walmart and the Walton family] peddled about 10-12 years ago.”

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Genetic study empowers, guides bonytongue conservation in West Africa The post Research eyes sustainable future for African fisheries appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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AgriLife Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

Horticultural research remains at epicenter of growing field Jeff Bednar, owner/operator of Profound Foods in Fairview, is relatively new to controlled environment horticulture.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment. EAT , International EAT seeks to transform global food systems by integrating science, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Operating as One CGIAR to take a cohesive, coordinated approach across all organizations in their network, they utilize research to drive science and innovation and tackle pressing global and regional challenges. This year, they were the recipient of the Pax Natura Foundation’s annual environmental prize.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food by Mark Kurlansky (Forthcoming November 2023) In The Core of an Onion , Mark Kurlansky dives into the science and history of the only sulfuric acid–spewing plant, exploring the onion’s twenty varieties and the cultures built around them.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn’t Food by Chris van Tulleken In Ultra-Processed People , Chris van Tulleken reveals the governments, scientists, and medical professionals who have altered the food supply and contributed to the rise in diet-related diseases.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Marine and coastal aquaculture production has soared since 1990 , reaching a record 78.4 But, as we write in a new paper published last week in the journal Science Advances , the full suite of risks from mariculture are incompletely mapped. There have been myriad overfishing crises, but cultivation of the oceans has been limited.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 17, 2024

I talked to scientists… Patrick Banks: the politics of fish in this state have trumped the science, and that is sad. That’s because fisheries are a complex science. Boyce: Other guides, though, said that we need to listen to the science – and changing the bag limit shouldn’t be a big deal. I talked to chefs.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones were brought to the offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Long Beach, California, in April by activists keen to register their discontent. established aquaculture as a national policy priority.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“It’s outrageous that in a moment when it’s so clear that Roundup has taken such a toll on people’s health, Bayer has made Roundup more toxic,” said Kendra Klein, deputy director of science at FOE and the lead author of the report. But plans to rapidly scale up open ocean aquaculture are controversial. Not Everyone is Onboard.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2025

farmers and ranchers and that increase access to fresh produce for children is not the answer, said Joelle Johnson, MPH, deputy director at the food and health watchdog organization the Center for Science in the Public Interest, speaking to the cancellation of the Local Food for Schools program.

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