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Food debate of the week: Eat snakes?

Food Politics

To meet wide demand, python farming in the U.S.

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

” Instead, they are accounted for in different sectors altogether: manufacturing and industry. As Raj Patel, author and a Civil Eats advisor, points out on Fuel to Fork , fossil fuels enable certain kinds of large-scale industrial agriculture to be profitable. Meanwhile, we collectively pay the true cost.

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Farmers Can Adapt to Alternating Droughts and Floods—Here’s How

The Equation

But with the heavy rain came floods that damaged lives, property, and crops. With fields waterlogged, many farmworkers were unable to work and pick produce, signaling that crops like strawberries might see lower yields and higher prices in the near future.

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Illinois Dust Storm Disaster Is a Warning for Agriculture

The Equation

Because like the Dust Bowl of so many decades ago, this tragedy stemmed from a collision of multiple systemic problems—in this case, unchecked climate change layered atop the excesses of industrial agriculture. Preventing soil loss from farms and its damaging consequences is possible, and it starts with keeping farm soils covered.

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Listen to Plants, Says Indigenous Forager and Activist Linda Black Elk

Civil Eats

There, she’s using her vast ecological expertise to develop curriculum for the Indigenous Food Lab training center and lead community engagement programming. “As Why is traditional ecological knowledge so important as it relates to both food sovereignty and climate change? Let’s back up a bit.

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Report Finds That Agriculture Is Breaching Several Planetary Boundaries

Food Tank

A recent report from McKinsey finds that agriculture has the single largest impact on the environment of any economic sector. The report lays out 47 concrete actions that agriculture businesses can take to restore Earth’s ecological balance— while maintaining a positive return-on-investment.

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Drought, Floods, and the Future of California’s Water Challenges

The Equation

My answer regarding agricultural and ecological droughts is a bit more complicated, as farmers and environmentalists alike continue to advocate for more water to be allocated to their causes, making it evident that our current and projected water supply is still insufficient.