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18 Eye-Opening Food Systems Documentaries to Watch

Food Tank

As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives. La Cosecha showcases her growth into becoming a key part of her community’s food distribution network. Watch it on Financial Times or YouTube.

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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 to resolve lawsuits associated with the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses, Arthur accepted a buyout, distributed by the Golden LEAF Foundation, to help him transition away from the crop. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Theres hardly any of us left.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

For decades, efforts to cut fossil fuel emissions have focused on power plants, factories, and automobiles, not farmland. Agriculture has just not been at the table in a meaningful way,” says Thomas. “It’s a greenwashing scheme. It’s going to allow nothing to get done.”­ But it should be. The main greenhouse gases emitted by U.S.

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What Is “Big Ag,” and Why Should You Be Worried About Them?

The Equation

Tracing Big Ag control from seed to supermarket We can trace corporate power through every stage of food production and distribution, identifying some of the largest and most problematic corporate actors—think of them as the Monsantos of today—along the way. Big Oil has been particularly egregious when it comes to climate disinformation.

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In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy

Civil Eats

So, when new diseases strike, new pests emerge, and climate stresses increase on North American farms, scientists tend to look to places that are far from American farmland to find genetic resources in centers of origin that were never domesticated. This is called, in U.N. shorthand, access and benefit sharing (ABS).

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

“We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. May 1st marked the official signing of SB 1084, a bill that makes it illegal to sell, distribute, create or otherwise possess lab-grown meat. Florida became the first state in the U.S.