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Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
Drawing from decades of field research, he argues that the answer is in strategies that are based in colonial agricultural science. But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7
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Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
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.
Daily Yonder
JUNE 28, 2024
Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Shane Hamilton is a historian of American agriculture and agribusiness who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders , an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder.
Food Tank
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Through this film, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) advocates for increased investment in rural communities who are under constant threat from the climate crisis. As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil. She established food distributions and mobile health clinic visits.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
OCTOBER 24, 2024
In recent years, its government has aggressively expanded telecommunications infrastructure, increasing the number of smartphone users to about 450 million people and doubling coverage in rural areas. That meant a farmer walking through an ailing field in Jharkhand could be scrolling Plantix in search of remedies.
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