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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Kimmerer looks to the serviceberry trees she harvests from, bringing readers attention to the way they distribute their berries to meet the needs of the natural community. These plants, she argues, offer a model of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude that the world can benefit from.

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

Fossil fuels provide the raw materials for the plastics in packaging, and, typically, the power to transport those chips to distribution centers and supermarkets, corner stores, vending machineswherever you find them. Fossil fuels are used throughout our food systemacross much of the foods produced by the industrial food chain.

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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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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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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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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).