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Report Finds That Agriculture Is Breaching Several Planetary Boundaries

Food Tank

“It is one thing to argue against cutting down a forest because of climate change, but it’s an additionally interesting point to argue how cutting down a forest would reduce precipitation in the same region which may reduce crop yields in the area,” Hopman continues.

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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate.

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The Food and Farm Bill Must Right the Wrongs of Longstanding Racial Injustice

The Equation

They began entering contracts to access small plots of farmland in return for shares of their crop yield, establishing the new sharecropping system. Many landlords evicted their tenant farmers and sharecroppers as they invested in new machinery, and policymakers continued to support the emergence of industrialized agriculture.

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