Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system.” Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system. The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. One key reason: the industrial food chain and its ultra-processed foods are deeply dependent on fossil fuels.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. Specialty crop export and global food trade are still only a minor part of the worlds food story.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This designation helps sustain Native culture, reassure public health, and encourage state food sovereignty. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to embrace these benefits. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity: evidence from 35 countries. The input reduction principle of agroecology is wrong when it comes to mineral fertilizer use in sub-Saharan Africa. parasitism in major cereal crops for enhanced crop production and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Harward and some families gathered food for the family, but she knew more had to be done. It was her daughter who mentioned all the food going to waste at her school and asked her mom a simple question: Why couldn’t they give families the food from her school instead of throwing it away? Helping Hands Ending Hunger.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 4, 2024

Farmers and ranchers face many pressures to farm and raise animals in certain ways to meet sustainability-related goals of others, including food companies, lenders, and government. Read More

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The concern: Phthalates leach into food from plastic packaging materials. These include choosing personal care products labelled to be free of phthalates, and replacement of packaged foods with fresh foods. Why it’s a worry: Chlormequat has been linked to reduced fertility, altered fetal growth, and delayed puberty in animals.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Organic recycling company Denali today announced it has transformed over 10 billion pounds of organic byproducts into natural fertilizers, according to its newly released third annual sustainability report detailing findings from 2023. Fertilizer and chemicals remain the largest on-farm expenditure accounting for 17.5%

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Host Shaun Haney is joined by: Josh Linville of StoneX on the fertilizer markets; John Scott on food prices and the political posturing of politicians in Canada; and, Cam Dahl of Manitoba Pork on farmers needing to be politically involved. Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday edition of RealAg Radio. Thoughts on something we.

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Food Tank

APRIL 7, 2025

After signing the reform into law, President Claudia Sheinbaum reiterated in a press conference that its primary objectives are to guarantee biodiversity, food sovereignty, and the health of Mexicans. Wise supports Mexicos push for greater food sovereignty. It is only the second country to do so. Few people in the U.S., With the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 28, 2025

The fund, along with other Agriculture and Agri-Food Read More The federal governments On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) is poised to run for at least another three years with $300 million in federal funding. The fund, along with other Agriculture and Agri-Food Read More

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Sustainable Harvest International

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Family farmers can develop flourishing businesses while supporting local food systems, food sovereignty, and sustainability. SHI partner farmers learn to embrace these techniques, such as natural fertilizers and cover cropping, knowing that healthy soil leads to abundant harvests.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For Trisha, sustainability means “freedom to really farm how we should be farming,” including being freed from the volatile cost of inputs like synthetic fertilizers. Fertilizer costs rose by more than 33 percent from 2020 to 2021 because of several factors, including extreme weather events and the Russian war against Ukraine.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs has published its new Guide to Vegetable Production in Ontario – Publication 839.

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Food Politics

JANUARY 30, 2025

But I sure noticed this one in the New York Times: Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. The company, Synagro, sells farmers treated sludge from factories and homes to use as fertilizer. Even as PFAS has turned up in wastewater , the government has continued to promote the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

Fertilizer will be front and centre, along with steel and cement, when it comes to imports subject to the EU’s border carbon adjustment that. Fertilizer will be front and centre, along with steel and cement, when it comes to imports subject to the EU’s border carbon adjustment that. Read More

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Real Agriculture

MAY 3, 2024

In the last eight years plus, Canadians have been asked to consult on several different proposed policy changes by the federal government. Some of these consultations move a policy forward. Others, like the Grain Act review process or the Sustainable Ag Strategy, results in a “What we heard” document and not much more.

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Food Politics

JUNE 7, 2024

The films make it clear that conversion won’t come easily—it appears too risky and requires too much of a change from using fertilizers and tilling methods. Anyone who wants to know what regenerative agriculture, in theory and in practice, will watch these films with pleasure and admiration for the hard work that goes into producing food.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 9, 2025

In the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, the goddess Hoohkkalani gives birth to a stillborn son, who is buried in the fertile soil. What these gardens produce is more than just food and a bond with Indigenous culture; it is a thriving community. It [is] also food sovereignty, that relationship to ina, or land.

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Agwired

JULY 12, 2023

Timac Agro USA and Rainbow Plant Food have collaborated to bring a new generation of fertilizer efficiency tools to the agricultural market. BLUE fertilizer products are comprised of superior homogeneous granular technology and a mixture of natural substances that benefit agronomic production.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JULY 19, 2024

The time to embrace the greater use of digital data to help responsible fertilizer use for healthier soils and food security on the continent is now. The post How Digital Technology Is Helping Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Access Best Practices for Fertilizer appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Organic farming is a method of agriculture that focuses on growing food without using synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Switching to agroecology offers a way to produce food within diverse landscapes growing and nurturing different crops, livestock and fisheries suited to the conditions and communities that live in the area.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Food waste is a significant source of methane emissions— according to the U.S. As a small economy, my nation faces the brunt.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. Every day at COP29 here in Baku has a theme to spark discussion and guide action, and today’s is Food, Water and Agriculture. Today’s the big day!

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Food Tank

APRIL 1, 2025

They have allowed her and her sister to pay for school fees, school supplies, clothes and more nutritious food for their childrenbut Fatou has now saved enough money to open a shop in the market selling kitchen supplies and start earning her own income. I myself am contributing to the finances of our household, smiles Fatou.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding brought on by climate change all have a massive impact on the food system. Farmers are having to adjust what they grow and how they grow it, and people all along the food chainfrom the workers who harvest the crops to the consumers who eat themfeel the effects.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Enumerators will collect data on chemical use, fertilizer, tillage, irrigation and conservation practices, like cover cropping and no-till, through interviews with farmers. NASDA enhances American food and agricultural communities through policy, partnerships and public engagement. territories.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Each year, the Food Planet Prize issues US$2 million to an initiative working to change the food system for the better. The Food Planet Prize Secretariat is seeking relevant, high-quality nominations from diverse food system sectors and geographies. Both nonprofit and for-profit initiatives are eligible.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

Kotutwa Johnson might build some protection for his crops with desert brush or cans to shield them from the wind, but his plants thrive without any fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation. Hopi corn thrives without fertilizers, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Some of these, such as food, fiber, and energy, are marketed, and the market compensates farmers. But intensive agricultural practices prevalent since the Green Revolution began in the 1960s in India suppressed many ecosystem services and threatens India’s food, ecological, and nutritional security. percent in 1947 to 0.4

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Last week, COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, signaled its intent to bring food systems into future COP negotiations. Until now, fixing food systems had hardly been on the environmental agenda, with most attention going to the energy sector. COP28 has shown a new level of commitment to changing food systems.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

PFAS got on soil because of their presence in sewage sludge used as fertilizer. The Organic Standards specifically forbid use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. The post PFAS in farmland: the next environmental frontier appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. PFAS in farmland is yet another reason to choose organics.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For centuries before Europeans reached North America, many Native Americans grew these foods together in one plot, along with the less familiar sunflower. And nationwide, many Native American communities lack access to healthy food. The first Europeans who reached the Americas were shocked at the abundant food crops they found.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Food Tank’s Dispatch from the U.N. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe to Food Tank’s newsletter now by clicking here. We expect so much from farmers, and they’re so central to a climate-smart future for the food system and for the planet. And we need to work locally!

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Kavya Organic Farm

AUGUST 29, 2023

Biotone Fertilizer provides nutrition and nourishment to plants. It’s the most basic starter plant food. In addition, Microbes which are part of a Biotone Fertilizer are generally known as any microorganisms that are too small to see with the naked eye, which is why a microscope is used to view them. dollars or 1454 rupees.

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