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Farmhand Foundation: Cultivating Organic Change in Southern California

Food Tank

Department of Agriculture, only 1 percent of farmland in the United States is organic. Herber tells Food Tank there is a willingness among farmers to go organic, for the sake of the land, their families. Really working to promote the need for organic, the meaning of organic, he tells Food Tank. According to the U.S.

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The politics of PFAS

Food Politics

But I sure noticed this one in the New York Times: Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Also from the New York Times: What We Know (and Dont Know) About Forever Chemicals in Food exposure can increase the risk of prostate, kidney and testicular cancers. Eating food grown or raised near places that used or made PFAS.

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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public. percent threshold needed for food security.

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Are environmentalists barking up the wrong tree when it comes to land use?

Sustainable Food Trust

Here, Patrick Holden explains why land sharing not ‘land sparing’ holds the key to sustainable food, biodiversity and climate resilience. Instead, I believe we should adopt a land sharing approach, producing food in harmony with nature and keeping as much agricultural land in production as is possible.

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Protecting Iowa’s Farmland: The Importance of Local Food

SILT

In recent years, there has been a growing movement in Iowa and across the country to promote the benefits of local food systems. Local food not only supports the local economy and helps to preserve traditional farming practices, but also offers a range of health and environmental benefits.

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It’s not the plough, but the how!

Sustainable Food Trust

I am old enough to remember when arable weeds were an integral part of crop production, not threatening the yields too much, but nevertheless providing nourishment for a vast range of species higher up the food chain. I find it sinister and rather shocking that the chemical companies refer to pesticides as plant protection products.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

They play critical roles in their ecosystems, sustaining and keeping in check species higher and lower on the food chain. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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