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Opinion: The US Doesn’t Grow Enough Food – But We Could

Modern Farmer

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to feed the world, can no longer feed its own population. She has over a decade of experience in food and agriculture policy reform and market development.

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New Report Notes the Global Struggle Over Farmland and Food Sovereignty

Food Tank

It finds that land ownership is being consolidated in the hands of a few powerful actors, squeezing out smaller farmers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, and others who rely on traditional farmland. Expansion and encroachment are further contributing to the problem, as farmland is used for non-agricultural purposes, such as mining projects.

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25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems

Food Tank

Alongside recipes, Sokoh also provides cultural and historical context for the dishes alongside photos from Nigerias landscapes, food markets, and people. In Part One, Feedgood, a Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor at American Farmland Trust, outlines a public framework and presents principles and practices for food systems planning.

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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

as an account executive in the real estate market for the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. The older Black farmers who were involved with the Pigford cases regret having gotten entangled with the industrial agriculture paradigm and the USDA, says McCurty of the Black Belt Justice Center.

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Young Farmers’ Analysis of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024

National Young Farmers Coalition

Young Farmers opposed the bill when it was initially released and mobilized hundreds of advocates in direct and grassroots action to encourage House Agriculture Committee members to vote against it. 12301) A step back in federal farmland conservation tools for land access. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The companies produce nitrate-rich wastewater and funnel it into open-air irrigation ditches that water the area’s farmland. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.