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Food Tank
JANUARY 27, 2025
Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens Seeding Empire connects the dots between some of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to those taking place across the African continent today.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7 Department of Agriculture (USDA). It really is modern-day sharecropping.
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Their use has helped Plantix’s AI grow more accurate while collecting information that could prove invaluable to crop buyers, seed sellers, tool manufacturers, loan lenders, insurance providers, and pesticide sellers. Some growers use the app weekly or even daily, contributing to a deep and detailed real-time image of farming across India.
The Equation
MAY 9, 2024
Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Big Oil has been particularly egregious when it comes to climate disinformation.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
MAY 28, 2024
The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Without requiring research that could flag potential harm, the FDA simply believes industry claims.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
JULY 13, 2023
But once they’ve bought equipment like seed drills for no-till planting and climbed the learning curve, he and Hohenstein say, reduced input costs, yield increases resulting from healthier soils, and premiums for climate-smart products will start to pay for themselves. If this stuff was free, folks would already be doing it,” Bonnie says.
Civil Eats
JULY 8, 2024
Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S.
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