Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Food Tank is highlighting 20 books for young readers that will inspire them to think more deeply about food. These activity books, cookbooks, and stories celebrate diverse foodways and farming practices from across the world, uplift the power of community, and celebrate all that pollinators do for global food and farming systems.

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Food Politics

MARCH 14, 2024

I’m constantly being asked what food will look like in the future, so I’ve been collecting items about new-and-unusual foods headed our way. Do these bode well for the future of food? New Foods New nutritional substitute? How can industry cultivate consumer appetite for marine plants?… You decide. Stay tuned.

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Food Politics

MAY 10, 2024

I haven’t said anything about pet food in a while, in part because I’m waiting to see what the FDA is planning to do about it, if anything. The FDA currently regulates pet food the same way it regulates feed for farm animals. Pet food labels look like feed labels. I wish it would propose Pet Food Facts labeling.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Farm Bill, passed once every five years, is the most important piece of federal legislation affecting American agriculture and food access. But the Farm Bill is not the be-all and end-all of our food system. full_link TAKE ACTION Learn how to be a food policy advocate in your community. Enter the food systems leader.

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Food Tank

MARCH 1, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. We knew Covid-19 was out there, but we had no idea of the scale of devastation that the pandemic would bring to our communities and the food system. Every spring, I find much solace and purpose in gardening.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 27, 2025

Enhancing food security amid climate change through rewilding and de novo domestication. Painting the diversity of a world’s favorite fruit: A next generation catalog of cultivated bananas. Genetic diversity in in situ and ex situ collections of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] landraces. Sounds like hard work.

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Farmers Weekly

JULY 17, 2023

Farmers Weekly The government’s failure to meaningfully address the climate and nature crises and support farmers risks the UK being unable to produce enough of its own food, according to a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).

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Farming First

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Building resilience in food systems means increased attention, compassion and united action across Africa. The post Cultivating Resilience: Uniting against climate change for Africa’s food future appeared first on Farming First.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’m trying to keep up with what’s happening with cultivated meat. So far, the FDA has approved a couple of cultivated chicken cell companies, and these are selling “chicken” in a couple of restaurants, one in San Francisco and the other in Washington DC. The big issue: scaling cell production up enough to have product to sell.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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Food Politics

MAY 1, 2024

I’m having a had time keeping up with all the things the New York City food policy office is doing to improve the city’s food system, so I asked for, and got, an impressive list. The post New York City’s food initiatives appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. Impressive, indeed. Impressive, indeed.

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Agric4profits

AUGUST 14, 2024

Shifting Cultivation is one of the farming methods that has been practiced by man to meet his/her food needs. So, Shifting Cultivation is described as an agricu

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Food Politics

MAY 23, 2024

Since we are talking this week about the Farm Bill, take a look at this report from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Cultivating Control: Corporate Lobbying on the Food and Farm Bill. Its major findings: Interest groups spent more than $523 million on Farm Bill issues between 2019 and 2023.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana. Afro-Indigenous harvests: Cultivating participatory agroecologies in Guerrero, Mexico. The Invisible Tropical Tuber Crop: Edible Aroids (Araceae) Sold as Tajer in the Netherlands.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 6, 2024

Sweetwater Farms opened on a six-acre plot of land his family owned, located in an area where residents have little access to fresh food. Sweetwater welcomes visitors that span generations, “from babies to 95 [year olds],” Daughtry tells Food Tank. Community support for Sweetwater so far has been “great,” Daughtry says.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Soybeans (Glycine max) are a leguminous crop widely cultivated for their protein-rich seeds, which are used in various products such as soy oil, animal feed, and soy-based foods. Soybean farming is a significant agricultural practice due to the crop’s versatile uses and high economic value.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems. Huge meta-analysis says plant mixtures are better than monocultures for C storage.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

It involves the cultivation of plants and the raising of animals for food, fiber, and other products used t Agriculture is the foundation of human civilization.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JULY 19, 2024

Key to Cultivation Capital’s agtech strategy is a partnership with the Yield Lab, a VC firm focused on early-stage agri-food tech startups. The post VC Firm Cultivation Capital Introduces $20 Million Agtech Fund Amid Dealflow Optimism appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Across all of human history, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 6,000 plant species have been cultivated for food. We must remember: Saving seeds is saving culture.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Recently, these unassuming spaces are cultivating a new trend in home-grown businesses. 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. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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The Farmers Daughter USA

MARCH 21, 2025

Did you know that almost 40 percent of all food in the United States goes to waste ? Food that is safe to eat, nutritious, and available goes in our collective trash cans. We throw away 133 billion pounds of food each year. Its a staggering statistic, especially when you consider that some of our neighbors are food insecure.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) recently interviewed Oklahoma Agriculture Secretary Blayne Arthur as part of its Work In Ag series to gain insights into the vital role that the chief state agricultural officers play in promoting and advancing farmers and the food system within their respective states.

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AgriLife Today

APRIL 15, 2024

AgriLife Extension event co-organizer shares success and future of farm-to-table event, Taste 360 The inaugural Taste 360 event, hosted by the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences, brought together attendees interested in gardening and farm-to-table food to hear from experts and spark passions.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 11, 2024

Program in Alameda County, Calif., gets them involved in gardening.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This e-mailed press release came from ProVeg International, a German “food awareness organisation with the mission to replace 50% of animal products globally with plant-based and cultivated foods by 2040.” Food companies go to a lot of trouble to encourage sales. appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Coconuts are used in a wide range of products, from food to cosmetics and industrial goods. Coconut farming involves cultivating coconut trees for their valuable fruits, which provide a variety of products such as oil, milk, water, and copra.… … Read More » Complete Practical Guide on Coconut Farming

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Food Tank

JULY 3, 2024

FoodPrints, an initiative of FRESHFARM, works to lead innovative solutions for the local food system in Washington D.C. Our model is to partner with a school and be there year after year after year, permanently bringing the capacity to the school for providing food education to students.” Schools appeared first on Food Tank.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world, what some of us now call Planet Desert. While climate change will generate many severe impacts on our food systems that we cannot control including floods, wildfires and more severe hurricanes. And yet, much of what the U.S. In the U.S.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 24, 2025

Agriculture is often defined as the cultivation and tillage of soil in a field to prepare a suitable seedbed, eliminate weeds, and improve the physical condition of the soil. However, modern agriculture covers a wide range of activities essential to the production of food, feed, and fiber.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Food waste is a significant source of methane emissions— according to the U.S. As a small economy, my nation faces the brunt.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At the same time, the US market for cultivated truffles is taking off. Farmed truffles do not differ in taste or aroma from their wild counterparts, and in cultivating them, producers can better control location, light and irrigation. The most elusive truffle, the Alba, has famously evaded the centuries-long effort of cultivation.

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Food Tank

JUNE 19, 2024

Food Tank is rounding up 20 podcasts that take listeners on a journey of food and agriculture systems around the world. These shows highlight the efforts of food producers, reflect on how eaters’ earliest memories in the kitchen shaped who they became today, and offer solutions for sustainable ocean management.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 9, 2025

For Native Hawaiians, kalo, also known as taroa tropical plant prized for its starchy, nutritious, rootlike corm as well as its leavesis not just a traditional food source but an ancestor, symbolizing a lasting and reciprocal connection to land. It [is] also food sovereignty, that relationship to ina, or land. Its a place of healing.

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Agric4profits

JULY 11, 2024

Maize, also known as corn is one of the most useful cereal crop in West Africa, foods made out of maize is very nutritious as it is an important source of Carbo

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Food Tank

MARCH 20, 2024

The organization offers services that promote the advancement of agricultural projects within the region, seeking to remedy a lack of opportunity for socioeconomic mobility and food insecurity. “We Through ongoing engagement with community members, NAS began a seed banking initiative to help them work toward food sovereignty.

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