Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

One key reason: the industrial food chain and its ultra-processed foods are deeply dependent on fossil fuels. At nearly every step of this ultra-processed foods path from the field to the grocery store, fossil fuels are key. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There, she’s using her vast ecological expertise to develop curriculum for the Indigenous Food Lab training center and lead community engagement programming. “As Why is traditional ecological knowledge so important as it relates to both food sovereignty and climate change? Let’s back up a bit.

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Forage Food Ecology Pesticide 141

The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Industrial Agriculture Crop Agriculture Agriculture 97

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

We have indeed lost the meaning and importance of food in an increasingly homogenised landscape of ultra-processed products, and this is something we should be deeply concerned about. Unfortunately, most hedgerows are now flailed in the autumn, a brutal process that is likely to leave them “degraded habitat” according to the charity, Buglife.

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Food Farming Farming Processing 98

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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Compost Fertilizer Crop Food 59

Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Reference requests will be made further along in the application process. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace.

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Technology Marketing Food Farming 40

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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