Food Politics

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I like following what’s happening with insect foods, and much is. Food Business News. Insect protein: From ridicule to laboratory-validated reality : In this month’s Food Forensics column, Alison Johnson discusses the food safety issues you will need to consider when dealing with insect protein. See stories in Bloomberg.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 23, 2023

Finance for food systems transformation. Scientific evidence showing the impacts of nature restoration actions on food productivity. Ecological intensification of agriculture through biodiversity management: introduction. Heavy reliance on private finance alone will not deliver conservation goals. Here we go again.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Global and local perspectives on food security and food systems. Six experts have their say on how to transform food systems, and dietary diversity seems to be a common (though not a universal) theme. Plant-based diets–impacts of consumption of little or no animal-source foods on human health. Damn you, nuance!

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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Organic Farming Research

MARCH 18, 2025

Explore the deep connection between Indigenous cultures and land stewardship, and how the Indigenous food sovereignty movement seeks to reclaim traditional ecological knowledge, promote sustainable agriculture, and challenge industrial food systems.

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Caff

JANUARY 7, 2025

Selected from nominations from all over the state, these inspirational change-makers are blazing trails for regenerative agriculture, strengthening our local food systems, and working tirelessly to grow a healthier and more just future for us all.

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Food Politics

MARCH 11, 2025

She was a food systems thinker before anyone knew what a food system was, Ms. Nestle said, referring to the process of producing and consuming food, including the economic, environmental and health effects. You have discovered that the food industry influences food choices? Try Joans Who Pays the Piper from 1980.

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Food Politics

MARCH 10, 2025

She was a food systems thinker before anyone knew what a food system was, Ms. Nestle said, referring to the process of producing and consuming food, including the economic, environmental and health effects. You have discovered that the food industry influences food choices? Try Joans Who Pays the Piper from 1980.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Kinneen, an innovative Tlingit chef, has dedicated much of his professional life to sharing his knowledge of Alaska foodways, focusing on local, sustainable ingredients and helping the public understand the benefits of those foods. “Robs ability to create a bridge between Alaska Native culture and the broader food world is inspiring.”

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Students for Stewardship, an ecology-based community service organization at Clemson University, has developed a food forest on campus, reports The Tiger. The food forest will be open to the public, and organizers hope to connect with a local trail system to improve public access.

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Food Politics

MARCH 7, 2024

In another lesson plan students are directed to create a presentation for a conservation agency regarding the introduction of cattle into their ecological preserve. The post How the food Industry exerts influence IV: Science teachers and public health professionals (beef industry) appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He hasn’t written much about food and farming in recent years; this was his big food book. I think there are a lot of problems with his arguments; the energetic aspects of single-cell protein-manufactured foods are quite problematic. Another part of my argument is ecological feedback. It’s a tricky question.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scientists at the University of California, Davis, published a study in the Journal of Applied Ecology on their assessment of food-safety risks posed by nearly 10,000 birds that they tracked on lettuce farms on California’s Central Coast. If it’s a tiny white speck, it’s very low risk and probably fine.”

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On the importance of diversity in ecological research. Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Towards an agroecological approach to crop health: reducing pest incidence through synergies between plant diversity and soil microbial ecology.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. But intensive agricultural practices prevalent since the Green Revolution began in the 1960s in India suppressed many ecosystem services and threatens India’s food, ecological, and nutritional security. percent in 1947 to 0.4

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The project helps to demonstrate the importance of environmental restoration to livelihoods and food security. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), focuses on restoring degraded forests, preserving water reservoirs, and promoting sustainable land management practices. One third of food production is reliant on rivers.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) recently awarded the 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize to the Black Dirt Farm Collective and Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP). Each year, the Prize recognizes two grassroots organizations dedicated to advancing food sovereignty and justice. “In

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 2, 2024

Understanding the role of biodiversity in the climate, food, water, energy, transport and health nexus in Europe. Food Systems Interventions for Nutrition: Lessons from 6 Program Evaluations in Africa and South Asia. Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. Many tribes in Alaska are very intertribal, sharing similar foods and waterways.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Over the next four years, CAFF will persist in our mission while holding firm to our six core values: ecological stewardship, justice & equity, practical solutions, economic fairness, centering farmers, and strong local communities.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Dive deep into the global food scene with this list of compelling films and docuseries. These 18 documentaries unpack everything from the struggles of small-scale farmers to the incredible work of activists advocating for a more sustainable food future. Watch it on YouTube.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NSAC staff retreat in West Virginia Theres no such thing as a quiet year when it comes to federal food and farm policy, and 2024 proved to be no exception! As the year comes to a close, we are reflecting on the progress we have made toward building a more resilient and equitable farm and food system.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Across the city of Atlanta, Georgia, many organizations are working to build a food system that centers community wellbeing with the health of the planet. On April 14, Food Tank is heading to Atlanta to partner with Spelman College and Emory University for the Summit “ Empowering Eaters: Access, Affordability, and Healthy Choices.”

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Caff

APRIL 5, 2024

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

BK Rot is part of a diverse ecology of community compost organizations throughout New York City. Meanwhile, local residents are educated and empowered to manage their own waste, less pollution goes into transporting and processing food scraps, and community bonds are deepened. But its future is unclear.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Almost half of all Haitians are going hungry, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC report, for the country. Almost 5 million Haitians are food insecure and require immediate assistance. The IPC report shows that Haiti has one of the highest levels of food insecurity in the world.

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Food Tank

MARCH 11, 2025

Gussow was widely hailed as what the New York Times called the matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement.” ” She was a trailblazer in nutrition education and a staunch critic of the industrialized food system, one of the first to emphasize the link between health and methods of food production.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. This may seem like an antiquated concern for chefs in an era of global food distribution systems, but it’s an all-consuming preoccupation for Oyster Oyster, a restaurant named after two ingredients—a bivalve and a mushroom —known for their ecosystem benefits.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

A just transition to sustainable farming means giving everyone the opportunity to be part of a more sustainable food system. But with over a million people in the UK currently struggling to find healthy food, it’s clear that there are barriers preventing many of us from accessing nourishing, sustainably produced food.

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Caff

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CAFFs mission is to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems. As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 CAFF is a California-based membership organization that includes family farmers and other community members passionate about local food, farming, and the environment.

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Caff

AUGUST 16, 2024

Emma Centeno and Johnny Wilson at The Ecology Center. In this episode we travel to Southern California to meet with Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm in Santa Ana and Johnny Wilson from The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano to talk all about Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, in urban farms. Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The food systems advocate, land steward, and beekeeper came of age during the civil rights movement in Kentucky and has spent five decades working for social and racial justice. In 1972, he founded the Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. Jim Embry sees tending to land as a sacred and spiritual responsibility.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Supported by a food-for-work strategy developed by the World Food Program and the Ethiopian government, Abebe and his neighbors began terracing their gently sloping land and digging shallow water pans to collect rainwater whenever it came. As the rains vanished and temperatures soared, the topsoil hardened like pavement.

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UnderstandingAg

JANUARY 6, 2025

The soil food web that will point the way to many orchard answers quite generously includes us humans within this symbiosis of place. Keep in mind at this time, I already knew about mycorrhizal fungi and had already been an organic and ecological grower for about 4-5 years.

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Caff

APRIL 6, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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