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Press Release WHO: National Association of State Departments of Agriculture CEO, several NASDA members and a NASDA industry guest will host a press conference to discuss learned opportunities and challenges to agricultural trade between the U.S. and Cuba on Feb. 21, 2024, following a NASDA-led trade mission to the country. Press Conference Participants: Ted McKinney, CEO, NASDA Amanda Beal, Commissioner, Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry Bryan Hurlburt, Commissioner
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The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) has long led efforts to tax unhealthy products, starting with tobacco. WHO describes its health tax efforts here. It recently issued Global report on the use of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, 2023. The report finds that 108 countries have some kind of tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. But, it finds Less than a quarter of countries surveyed account for sugar content when they impose taxes on these non-alcoholic beverage products.
Really attentive long-time readers may remember us posting a video of an interview with Edith Adjako , a Surinamese woman of Maroon descent, recorded by ethnobotanist Dr Tinde van Andel. Dr van Andel and her colleagues have been studying Maroon agriculture and how it relates to African practices. Recall that the Maroons are the descendants of enslaved people who escaped captivity during colonial times and established communities in the interior of places like Suriname which survive to this day.
Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. – NASDA CEO Ted McKinney issued a statement today following the EPA’s order on the use of existing stocks of the herbicide dicamba. “As co-regulatory partners with EPA committed to preserving environmental stewardship, protecting the rural economy and securing a healthy food supply chain, NASDA commends EPA on issuing an existing stocks order for dicamba that is inclusive of products that are in the possession of growers or in the channels of trade.
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Climate-resilient crops: Lessons from xerophytes. Breeding for Na+ exclusion to improve salinity tolerance in crops has compromised their drought tolerance, but both tolerances are down to more gene copies in key families when comparing species. Innovation and Technological Mismatch: Experimental Evidence from Improved Crop Seeds. Breeders should strive to give farmers what they want, even if it means releasing multiple locally adapted varieties rather than a single blockbuster.
The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park partners and British Sugar have secured significant new funding to develop innovative gene editing approaches to protect the British sugar beet crop against potentially catastrophic losses to virus yellows disease. The award from Innovate UK’s Farming Futures Research and Development Fund, is made jointly to British Sugar.
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A sustainable blue cheese industry needs more microbial diversity. The Open Source Seed Initiative gets written up in The Guardian. Looks like we need something similar for cheese microbes. The Guardian then follows up with mung bean breeding and fart jokes. But then goes all serious with talk of trillions of dollars in benefits from sustainable food systems.
Black History Month is a time of celebration, education, and reflection at Black Seeds Urban Farm , located in Memphis, Tennessee. Bobby and Derravia Rich started the community garden to provide local, organic fruits, vegetables, and nuts to neighbors with little or no access to fresh, nutritious food.
Ag robotics company Naio Technologies and Canadian track manufacturer CAMSO have announced a new research and development partnership focused on development of new work tools, boosting productivity and reducing environmental impacts. The agreement will span multiple years and includes factory technical testing and on-field trials with producers. This work aims to adapt tracks on agricultural.
I’m on the USDA’s mailing list for press releases and learned that it had updated its map of plant hardiness zones based on the lowest minimum temperature expected over a 30-year average period. USDA’s announcement of its new hardiness map said “When compared to the 2012 map, the 2023 version reveals that about half of the country shifted to the next warmer half zone, and the other half of the country remained in the same half zone.
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I subscribe to AgFunder News, not least because I so admire Elaine Watson’s reporting on the food industry. I was particularly interested in her detailed account of investment in cultured meat and seafood startups: Preliminary AgFunder data point to 78% decline in cultivated meat funding in 2023; investors blame ‘general risk aversion.’ Here’s what’s happening: Funding may have dropped, but investors put nearly $200 million into this technology in 2023.
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A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils.
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