Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

He explores how cultivating indigenous trees and investing in new, modified tree crops can produce food, medicine, money, and jobs. He explores how cultivating indigenous trees and investing in new, modified tree crops can produce food, medicine, money, and jobs.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

So, if it can’t be measured it does not exist!

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Their shells are harder and thicker than those of the English walnut, the most common commercially cultivated species, and are difficult to separate from the kernel within. Like eating wild nuts itself, Holt says, such an approach to forestry would represent a return to older patterns of life. “I

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“We are trying to be as optimistic as possible that there will be feasible scientific strategies in the future,” says Nancy McBrady, deputy commissioner of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DACF). From an agriculture perspective, we want the soil to come out the other side usable and healthy.

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Agwired

APRIL 19, 2024

These new roles and responsibilities will allow for increased agility in meeting stakeholder needs while cultivating closer alignment and collaboration across Alltech’s U.S. Torrey Advisory Group , a boutique lobbying firm specializing in food, agriculture, and forestry issues, welcomes Nona McCoy as a Vice President on the policy team.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

So, to shine a light on what goes on behind the scenes, UCS’ Food and Environment Program recently published a report, Cultivating Control , documenting how much the agribusiness sector spends to sway Congress as well as how much it contributes to key lawmakers’ election campaigns. David Scott (D-Ga.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Clearly, Rep.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. Photo credit: Cathy Day Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a two-part series. We appreciate your work!

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

To Quimbayo’s surprise, there was still water available on his parents’ farm, which he had once viewed with suspicion because of its methods of cultivation that involved coexisting with native Amazonian trees and allowing the vegetation to regenerate around the creek. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Forest Service committed last fall to urban and small-scale forestry projects across the United States, aiming to make communities more resilient to climate change and extreme heat. Merchant’s initiative fits into a national trend of combining forestry — and Forest Service funding — with efforts to feed people.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Black Urban Growers , United States Black Urban Growers (BUGs) is dedicated to fostering a robust community that supports cultivators in urban and rural environments, while nurturing Black leadership. General Assembly to build momentum around food systems in the leadup to COP28.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Black Urban Growers (BUGs) , United States BUGs is committed to fostering a strong, supportive community for cultivators in both urban and rural settings, while empowering Black leadership in agriculture. By working with companies and communities, they aim to improve livelihoods, protect biodiversity, and combat climate change.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. Over the past decades we have seen a hyper consolidation of seed systems that has led to a dominant culture of seed commodification.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a critical piece of the Department’s efforts to support climate-smart agriculture and forestry on working lands. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued more than $1.77

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. ” His biggest problem was that most available land on Borneo and other parts of Indonesia and Malaysia was controlled by Indigenous people or held in state forestry concessions.

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