Food Tank

JANUARY 9, 2025

Lundberg Family Farms is scaling production of their regenerative organic products to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect wildlife. For the company, protecting biodiversity and wildlife is an important benefit of their approach to farming. Farmers have just 24 to 48 hours to effectively pull this off.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Soul Fire Farm’s team performing an earthworm count during a field soil-health test. It’s another part of farming, right?” Alfaro explains.

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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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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

They also provide habitats for roughly half of endangered species, from cranes to crocodiles, and 75% of harvested fish and shellfish. The federal food and farm bill offers a pivotal opportunity to protect our countrys wetlands by adequately funding USDA conservation programs. And wetlands also help protect us from flooding.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

This Earth Day, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) has curated a second compilation of thirteen impactful practices and daily routines that, when adopted, nurture our planet and preserve it for future generations. Local Food Systems SHI trains and empowers family farmers as they transition towards sustainable farming practices.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. Patrick currently operates Brown Family Farms on the land that Byron worked as a sharecropper once he was freed.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation by William G. Moseley In Decolonizing African Agriculture , William G. Moseley sets out to answer why so many approaches to farming and food policy in sub-Saharan Africa have failed.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

The display exemplified how, as Land O’Lakes’ annual report laid out earlier that year, the agricultural giant is marketing enrollment in a climate-smart farming initiative alongside its biggest profit driver: pesticides and seeds. They’re getting a tremendous amount of data from the farmer-participants.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 These nitrogen-based compounds, common in agricultural runoff, are linked to multiple cancers and health issues for those exposed. ppm for nitrates. Tesdell’s is 80.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

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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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

For others, however, the Welsh countryside is a stark reminder of the damage that humans have wreaked upon the land through intensive farming and industry. In Carwyn Graves’ latest book, Tir , the author explores the realities of the Welsh landscape, past and present, revealing how humans have shaped the terrain for millennia.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I grew up with a lot of really amazing fresh food that was both grown and harvested, and all of that family history led me to study plants in school. Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. For example, if I had a sore throat, my mom would make me ginger and lemon tea with honey.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. Welch also provides tips on best shopping and harvesting practices to help eaters start cutting waste even before they reach the kitchen.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It’s an all-too-familiar story for mission-driven agritech startups, one that illuminates the bargains even the most idealistic of entrepreneurs must strike to survive in a savage industry. Agriculture’s cycles are seasonal rather than quarterly, and its best ideas may need many years to bear fruit.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Joan was instrumental in some of my thinking for my book Bitter Harvest , and when I went to the Ross School to build a healthy, nutritious, delicious school food program, Joan graciously gave of her time and energy to teach and educate our team. I was thrilled when she agreed to write the foreword to my 2000 book Sharing the Harvest.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

But the US government’s insistence that GM crops are safe because they have been planted and consumed by US farm animals 25 years does not hold up. Though supposedly the beneficiaries of that grand US-directed experiment in industrial agriculture, they lack enthusiasm for its sequel.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 31, 2025

Meanwhile, at an apple orchard in upstate New York, immigrant farmworkers signed the first United Farm Workers (UFW) union contract in the state, joining the legendary California-based union founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Compared to other industries, agriculture had one of the lowest rates of all, at 1.4

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Yet these qualities are their superpowers, making these food systems resilient, nutritious, and far more secure than industrial agriculture. Industrial agricultures focus on growing these nine crops contributes significantly to deforestation and ecosystem degradation. Laird explains.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2014, Lowell and Evelyn Trom learned that a farmer wanted to build a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) across the road from their family farm in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. By then, there were already 10 CAFOs within a 3-mile radius of their 760-acre farm, so they knew the stench the facility would bring.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. Across the globe, nearly one in eight people depend on wetlands for fishing, rice farming, hunting, and tourism.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

“We came to Peru in 2016 and bought two farms in Ucayali at a public auction,” he has said. We passed abandoned farms, cattle pastures, and stray dogs, but not much forest. In an April 2015 letter to the director of the regional agriculture authority, the leaders of Santa Clara de Uchunya complained about their situation.

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