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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

“By regenerating soil health, sequestering carbon, and restoring biodiversity, sustainable ranching practices have the power to reverse the damage caused by decades of industrial agriculture.” These include economic pressures, consumer preferences and lobbying by large agricultural corporations. Pollard said Cream Co.

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Op-ed: Big Ag Touts Its Climate Strengths, While Awash in Fossil Fuels

Civil Eats

Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.

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Food and Farming Manifesto for the general election

Sustainable Food Trust

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

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The Agriculture Resilience Act Is a Win for Sustainable Nutrition Science 

The Equation

billion in 2022, with about $445 million distributed through the competitive AFRI program. Refocusing agricultural research to include sustainable nutrition science and climate would lead to more resilient and equitable food systems. The total funding for its mission was approximately $3.7

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18 Eye-Opening Food Systems Documentaries to Watch

Food Tank

La Cosecha showcases her growth into becoming a key part of her community’s food distribution network. Through conversations with farmers and food systems experts, Foroohar highlights the urgent need for localized economies, regulatory safeguards, and the creation of stronger, more sustainable industries.

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Q&A: Should Crop Insurance Be Subsidized?

Daily Yonder

First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Plantix began its journey as an idea in the heads of people who recognized the problems with industrialized agriculture and explored ambitious ways of solving them. So when Helm’s CEO called to ask about working together more closely, she and the remaining founders agreed.