Sustainable Harvest International
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.
Sustainable Harvest International
OCTOBER 2, 2024
SHI-Belize partner farmer Juvini Acosta reforests land affected by conventional agriculture. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet. Organic methods like composting and biofertilizers minimize reliance on synthetic chemicals.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center. He fertilizes with compost tea, a mixture he creates of compost and water. It really is modern-day sharecropping.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 10, 2024
Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. She describes this process in natural terms, as the composting of sadness and grief.
The Lunatic Farmer
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. As a fulltime commercial farmer that doesn’t use chemicals, who fertilizes with home-made compost, and believes pigs should express their pigness, I get no embrace from the conventional commercial farming community.
Modern Farmer
JULY 10, 2023
Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month. And dairy farmers are increasingly engaging in recharging over-pumped basins.
Sustainable Food Trust
AUGUST 9, 2023
Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash. With a strong scientific bent, Montgomery and Biklé dissect each of their focus topics – soil, plants, animals and people.
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