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Civil Eats
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Powerful PR firms have worked overtime in recent years to craft a narrative that highlight farms’ potential role in mitigating climate change, but the truth is that agriculture consumes 6 percent of the world’s fossil fuel energy , and the oil and gas industries rely on industrial agriculture for one of its largest and most lucrative markets.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
OCTOBER 24, 2024
If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” During the three intervening years, Strey and her team had reshaped Plantix from a tool they hoped would help reduce global pesticide use into an app that would make it easier for farmers to buy pesticides.
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Sustainable Harvest International
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Conventional agriculture heavily relies on synthetic chemicals in the form of fertilizers and pesticides. SHI-Belize partner farmer Juvini Acosta reforests land affected by conventional agriculture. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet.
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.
The Equation
MARCH 4, 2024
Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. Source: SEEN. Imagine air quality so bad that it makes your nose bleed!
UnderstandingAg
APRIL 30, 2023
Agricultural producers have a greater impact on water quality than people in any other industry. Agriculture consumes and interacts with more total water than any industry, both in total usage and via the water interacting with the land under our control. Our management has a direct impact on all these things.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).
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