Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activitiesmostly rain-fed crop farmingrecurring droughts are devastating to the country. We lost our entire maize crop.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities. Readers will learn about the programs supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, field trials of hybrid Maize in Kenya, and the worlds largest biotechnology companies.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Changing practices In the last 30 years, Albania has moved from growing exclusively local varieties of arable crops, specifically cereals and maize, to importing 80% of its seed. The great diversity of open-pollinated varieties of maize are now lost – bar a handful in mountainous regions. Yet, unique and important varieties survive.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption. Recent legislative efforts in the US are trying to halt these deals; Image sourced from WoodRuff Food processing and distribution is becoming increasingly concentrated too.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Institute aims to advance sustainable and nutritious food production systems, improve food distribution and access, and contributes to policy discussions. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank. Nobody wants families to go hungry.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Her mothers days were filled with caring for children, hand-milling maize, and tending their small garden. Aracely Marroqun Coronado, 21 On the farm where Aracely grew up, near the town of Comitancillo in Guatemalas western highlands, the maize is so tall in July that it swallows her familys house whole.

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