Food Tank

JULY 26, 2024

But after listening to Food Tank’s interview with Mark Zimring about the challenges and opportunities in international fisheries , it made me realize how good we have it here in Alaska. For every meal of land animal protein that you substitute with fish, you are significantly reducing your personal carbon footprint. Didn’t think so.

Arable Land 127

Arable Land Food Production Processing 127

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. But intensive agricultural practices prevalent since the Green Revolution began in the 1960s in India suppressed many ecosystem services and threatens India’s food, ecological, and nutritional security. percent in 1947 to 0.4

Agriculture 58

Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 58

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. It’s a great gateway crop,” says Don DiLillo, owner of Finest Foods in Huntington, New York, for ushering in a new breed of novice farmers.

Cultivation 118

Cultivation Crop Real Estate Food 118

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. Plastic contaminates fields at a much greater scale than it does our oceans , posing an acute threat to soil health and food security.

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Agriculture Supply Chain Production 145

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. Per calorie, though, rice produces fewer emissions than most staple foods, including meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and even other grains like wheat and corn.

Plantation 127

Plantation Acre Farming Farming 127

Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, they still represent a very significant source of nutrition – a service I don’t think we should ever take for granted, especially with all the climate-related threats to crop production and food security that are coming our way. Neither should we forget the wider social value of Scotland’s grasslands.

Livestock 81

Livestock Pasture Cattle Arable Land 81

The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. This means that by 2030, modern food products will be higher quality and cost less than half as much to produce as the animal-derived products they replace.

Science 75

Science Production Food Cattle 75