Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

In Part One, Feedgood, a Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor at American Farmland Trust, outlines a public framework and presents principles and practices for food systems planning. And in Part Two, she shows readers the policies and programs that support farming systems, sustain agriculture, and bolster community food security.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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 Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

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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Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 118

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

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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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

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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