Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, typically released weekly on Thursdays. The next few months have the potential to make a huge impact on global food systems. We need to keep repeating this: Food and agriculture systems have to be central to any meaningful discussions of solving the climate crisis.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Indigenous ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist foraged with her mom and grandmother in the Ohio River Valley as a child, then made the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota her home alongside her husband, Luke. My mom was an Indigenous woman from Korea, and she grew up foraging and growing her own food as a matter of survival.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Now, 60 percent of the biggest agribusinesses in the world use the term , all in different ways.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To help you find a winemaker, distiller, or brewer to support, Food Tank is highlighting 20 producers and programs bringing sustainable sips to glasses around the world. Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture. Mijenta grows agave without pesticides or herbicides.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Farm income, yields and food availability have all increased tremendously since the inception of the Farm Bill in 1933, in line with its original intent. But a closer look at our food system reveals many challenges. The efforts to truly create sustainable food systems do not go far enough.

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Agric4profits

JANUARY 7, 2025

Organic squash farming focuses on growing squash without synthetic chemicals, fertilizers, or pesticides. Organic squash farming encourages sustainable practices that maintain ecological balance. It promotes the use of natural methods to cultivate healthy, environmentally friendly crops.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Increasing the types of crops present in an area can provide numerous ecological and economic benefits. Another study examined the impacts of implementing crop rotations and diverse cover crop mixtures while foregoing any fertilizer or pesticide applications. In turn, this led to an increase in yields.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else. Currently, 44 percent of the world’s food is produced in arid and semi-arid lands. An Arizona Walnut tree.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. Imperial County residents were exposed to over 1,200 pounds of pesticides—via the air, water, and on the plants themselves—per square mile from 2017-2019. In 2002, U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

As a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “ Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows.” with the Berkeley Food Institute, and this conclusion seemed to fly in the face of all that I’d read.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Editor’s Note: Small actions towards community self-sufficiency and food sovereignty can have resounding effect on the longterm health and sustainability of the land, the people, and the local food system. But if you can’t feed yourself, and you can’t produce your own food, how sovereign are you?” Credit: Omaha World-Herald.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 5, 2023

There is also research going into where to put wind turbines for lower ecological disruption and ways to reduce bat attraction to the turbines, perhaps through sound wave disruption. As Frick notes, bats are incredibly important contributors to ecological stability.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 5, 2024

An ecological graveyard. First, stop using chemical pesticides. She says that commercial pesticides contain toxins harmful to humans as well. “The more I read about these native bees and plants and ecosystems, the more I realized that the reason why pollinators were so in decline is because they lost habitat,” says Montoya.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

By: Florence Reed , Founder + Director of Sustainable Harvest International With the war in Ukraine, the global food crisis looms large, given that Ukraine is a major global exporter of both wheat and chemical fertilizers. The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Some relied on prairie dogs for nourishment during thin times, or used them as a ceremonial food. Residents periodically pop out of doors to grab food, gossip about the neighbors and scan for danger. The Lakota, Dakota and other Indigenous peoples of the prairie shaped and depended on the ecosystems prairie dogs created.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It sits alongside the Belize Northeastern Biological Corridor, which connects various ecological reserves and allows for safe passage of wildlife like jaguars and pumas. The ecological farming practices SHI partner farmers use provide even more habitat for wildlife and contribute to national conservation efforts.

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The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Federal conservation programs and state-based programs like the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Healthy Soils Program provide financial assistance to farmers and ranchers for adoption of various soil management practices that can restore soils damaged by industrial agriculture.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

According to their reporting, problems range from the many illnesses suffered by penned fish to sea lice and the pesticides used to treat them. The story about salmon farming shows both the best and the worst in humans, because the best is the creative ability to find new ways of producing food and solving problems. Did it have lice?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Anyone who’s spent time in Mexico can report firsthand on the country’s deep reverence for corn, that infinitely versatile and nutritive grain that forms the base of the country’s daily bread, the tortilla, as well as a multitude of other traditional foods. A kaleidoscope of native corn varieties, plus colorful beans in a range of shades.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

National Businesses and Organizations American Sustainable Business Network Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) Carbon180 Defenders of Wildlife Earthjustice Environmental Policy Innovation Center Environmental Working Group Farm Aid HEAL Food Alliance Healthy Food Strategies Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, (..)

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 16, 2023

Polyculture has been practiced for centuries by traditional farmers around the world but has only recently gained popularity with modern-day farmers who are looking for an alternative way to grow food. Another environmentally-friendly feature of polyculture farming is the ability to grow food in small spaces with limited resources.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

For time-pressed shoppers wanting to choose healthy, sustainably produced food, the organic label has become a reliable go-to. The shelves crawl with sustainability logos: more than 460 of them on food and beverage packages, and a third of them created over the last 15 years. However, this can be easier said than done.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

They can flourish eating grass, herbs and shrubs, effectively transforming sunlight, rainwater and soil nutrients into some of the most nutrient rich foods available to us. This marks an increase of more than 30% in the past decade as chicken has been marketed as a more compassionate, healthy and ecological alternative to red meat.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Our next post in the series will explore what the Census shows us about local and regional food systems. The data provided by the Census of Agriculture is an essential and comprehensive tool for all stakeholders to understand what is happening in US agriculture and food.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

At more than 5,000 feet above sea level and with its endless opportunities for outdoor adventure and good food, Boulder was the perfect backdrop to get down to coalition business. She discussed some of the challenges in her district and elsewhere as it becomes increasingly difficult to produce good food. As a pediatrician, Rep.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Rooted in principles of ecology, localism, democracy, equity and justice, agroecology offers a compelling alternative to the industrial food system. They aimed to improve their land, soil, food quality, their service to the local community and the environment rather than focusing on ‘feeding the world’.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Joan Dye Gussow, who died last Friday at age 96 , was a fiercely independent thinker and food-system visionary whose ideas caught on and rippled outward. And because of her, we began to understand the deleterious impacts of the industrialized food systemamong them depleted soil, poisoned water, and metabolic disease.

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Kavya Organic Farm

JULY 29, 2023

Click Here to buy Bird Feeders to attract Birds to your lawns Chemical Control: Pros and Cons Chemical control measures for worms in lawns do exist, but they should be used with caution due to potential environmental and ecological impacts. Chemical pesticides may harm beneficial earthworm populations and other non-target organisms.

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Caff

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Organic farming offers synergistic economic, environmental, and social benefits as it creates opportunities for farmers to sell at premium price, reduces negative impacts on soil and water quality, and produces nutritious food for the community that is not treated with synthetic pesticides.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

This has meant fewer people on the land, more centralisation of production, and greater reliance on ‘quick fix’ methods like chemical pesticides and fertilisers. They offer community support, technical training, research, community events and consultation for people trying to get into food production, as well as plenty of positive vibes.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

For Jenna and Thomas, both teachers by trade, it was always a dream to build a life off-grid and grow organic food for their community. Their goal is to expand into an heirloom flower farm to offer a CSA program to the community (with organic, unsprayed flowers), while providing food for their honeybees and the native bees.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology estimates that “One teaspoonful of topsoil contains around 1 billion microscopic cells and around 10,000 different species.” Scientists tell us that in addition to soil disturbance, a wide range of pesticides can affect the diversity of mycorrhizal fungi.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s a familiar story in the world of food. Like so much of our food system, coffee’s problems are intricate and interrelated. The situation is especially complex, given that the coffee industry is simultaneously fueling the climate crisis by clearing ecologically rich habitat for rows of tightly packed coffee plants.

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