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Op-Ed | Why the World’s Food Systems Need to Transition Away from Industrial Agriculture

Food Tank

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. Moreover, they contribute to forest destruction, the displacement of communities, water pollution and soil degradation.

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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By To ensure the farms that Cream Co.

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Op-Ed | Look to Local Food Policies for Climate Hope

Food Tank

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions.

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23 Fall Food and Agriculture Books to Discover Now

Food Tank

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. This fall, Food Tank serves up a list of 23 new titles that explore the complex world that food eaters face today.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

But the epic flooding this past March was simply unprecedented, says the owner of Lerda-Goni Farms. The torrent overwhelmed dams, swelled rivers and crumbled levees, inundating entire farming communities, including Lerda-Goni and a dozen other ranches, and reawakening a long-dormant lake lying beneath the vast agricultural region.

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Summer reading 2023: Book reviews

Sustainable Food Trust

It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth,” writes author of the National Food Strategy, Henry Dimbleby, in the opening chapter of Ravenous. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Reviews: Food and farming in film 2023

Sustainable Food Trust

Avoid the never-ending scroll on streaming platforms and instead refer to our list of recommended food and farming films, especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. He has been born and grown in the Valley and his wish from when he was a small boy, is that he wanted his own farm.

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