Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is a Nairobi-based research institute that elevates the role insects play in the creation of environmentally and socially sustainable food systems across Africa. Founded in 1970, icipe aims to understand how insects can best be introduced across the food system.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

With support from the European Union (EU) , AlgaeProBANOS is working to bring algae, ecology, and business experts together through the coordination of the SUBMARINER Network. Filled with nutrient runoff from fertilizers, the waters create the perfect environment for algal blooms.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This renewed focus came as hybrid seeds, instrumental in the Green Revolution, had led farmers to overlook the potential ecological damage of intensive fertilizer and agrochemical use. “The Green Revolution created a sense of euphoria that we have solved our production problem.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed farms on both coasts are beginning to take hold, tapping into decades of painstaking science—and could help shellfish thrive in waters affected by climate change and pollution. We have some of the best marine science institutions in the world,” says Polizzi. “We Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish? Supported by $6.2

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Caff

MAY 2, 2024

Discussions kicked off with Hanna Kahl, CAFF’s Ecological Pest Management (EPM) specialist, providing background on the organization’s pest management research from the ‘90s, known as BIOS. They grew their cover crop, they limbed their trees, and now they’ve created their own fertility. And composting can be extremely local.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

One type in particular, kelp—a large brown algae with many species, including sugar kelp— has been hailed as an ecologically beneficial, nutritious superfood that can be farmed on both U.S. Largely developed in Asia, seaweed farming is a new venture on American shores. coasts—and could help fight climate change. Kodiak Island in the summer.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

The resilience centers would focus on specific areas of ecological improvement ranging from minimizing or abating adverse climate and environmental impacts to reducing dependency on fossil fuels. The previous National Academy of Sciences study on links between human and soil health has been deleted, as it is already under way.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 29, 2020

There are still a lot of questions that science is working out—like how exactly the whole process works and what sort of impact different soil microbes have, but there does seem to be potential in carbon farming for helping mitigate climate change. More soil organic matter can hold on to more carbon in the soil, which keeps it out of the air.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be. 7110, 7113, 7213). 7201, 7202, 7203). 11103, 11208).

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Banana Capital: Stories, Science, and Poison at the Equator by Ben Brisbois The city of Machala, Ecuador describes itself as the banana capital of the world. Ben Brisbois reveals the less-palatable side of the banana industry, from devastating health impacts of pesticides to imperialism and ecological destruction.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Coupled with excessive use of fertilizer , which has increased dramatically over the last four decades, this creates major water-quality problems, as the fertilizer runs off into waterways and leaches into groundwater. Fertilizer runoff can also affect urban communities downstream. All the time.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Rich in minerals, kelp grows quickly and doesn’t require fertilizer. That’s not right.” The natural way has been contaminated and polluted by mankind.”

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s a rousing success story for a species that American settlers greedily netted for fertilizer, oil, and animal feed starting as far back as the 1800s, until once-teeming coastal waters were nearly emptied, and the larger fish and birds that depended on menhaden suffered in their absence. “In

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. EAT Forum , International EAT is a science-based organization focused on creating fair and sustainable food systems to keep the plant and everyone healthy.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Healthy soil is good at capturing and storing water Our current agricultural system by and large fails to integrate science-based soil management practices that would replenish groundwater. Industrial agriculture has created soils that are less like sponges and more like concrete, making it difficult to soak up runoff and excess water.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Later, his focus shifted to urban ecology. In a frequently cited 2009 paper in the journal Frontiers in Ecology , a trio of researchers identified more than 139 shade-tolerant plants that have invaded deeply shaded forests. Stokes’ findings were published in the journal Northwest Science in 2014.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Matt Poore, a professor of animal science at North Carolina State University, chairs the Alliance for Grassland Renewal, a national organization dedicated to eradicating toxic fescue. To understand the fescue-native debate requires an understanding of the ecological tradeoff between warm- and cool-season grasses.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

And new science about the connection between water pollution and air quality suggests more investment is needed. the Salton Sea is also suffering from eutrophication, or loss of oxygen, due largely to algae blooms fueled, in part, by fertilizer runoff. It’s associated with air quality, ecology, and biologicals in the lake.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Starting in the 1970s, through her groundbreaking nutritional ecology class at Teachers College within Columbia University, and through books like The Feeding Web: Issues in Nutritional Ecology , she transformed our view of food from something enjoyed at the end of a fork to the entire system that created the mouthful.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In this 2023 Holiday Book Guide, you’ll find reviews of memoirs, personal essays, histories, science writing, journalism, cookbooks, guidebooks, and photo collections—written by our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors. In addition to our top picks for holiday giving, you’ll find a roundup of our recent book coverage.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.

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Caff

APRIL 17, 2025

The sheep provide biomass cycling and natural fertilizer though urine which minimizes any external inputs and cuts costs. They started off with 800 sheep, then 1100, which grew to 1500. This year they are looking to have 3,000.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 25, 2024

Van Lent came on board in 2005, tasked with ensuring that this policy was grounded in good science. Rather than pushing lobbyists to incorporate the best science, they were listening to the lobbyists’ favored plans and seeking to publish science that conformed. Photo by Alicia Osborne for The New Republic/FERN.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

And that’s after the corn is planted, doused with fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, shielded from weeds and insects with toxic chemicals, and harvested. Then there’s all the nitrogen fertilizer, which when applied to farm fields emits an annual tsunami of nitrous oxide , a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more potent than carbon.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Transitioning to such a system will require US agriculture to reduce its dependency on, and overapplication of, synthetic fertilizers. Over the next few years, UCS will be shining a light on the fertilizer industry and the impact it has on people and the environment. While a majority comes from Morocco, some is mined in Florida.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Transitioning to such a system will require US agriculture to reduce its dependency on, and overapplication of, synthetic fertilizers. Over the next few years, UCS will be shining a light on the fertilizer industry and the impact it has on people and the environment. While a majority comes from Morocco, some is mined in Florida.

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