Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We are all more from science,” she says in her German-accented English. Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert. Something potentially very big. billion in 2012 to $51.7

Pesticide 74

Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 74

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. And they will use one or two orders of magnitude less water, with no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers.

Agriculture 103

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 103

The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Resolving heirs’ property and returning land to BIPOC farmers has the potential to repair past wrongs and return generational wealth, bring back new farmers to an aging industry, and restore communities’ access to healthy and sustainable foods, all while implementing sustainable practices that will reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Farming 79

Farming Farming Food Real Estate 79

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Alexander starts with the pea which developed widely across the globe beginning in the Fertile Crescent, where it dates back 8500 years to Neolithic settlements. Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

Food 98

Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

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. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

Food 111

Food Agriculture Agriculture Industrial Agriculture 111

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We

Agriculture 70

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 70

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion. If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Corporations across the food system increasingly have the power, by virtue of their size, market domination, political connections, and deep pockets, to set prices, meddle with science, evade regulation, and write the rules to benefit themselves. If anything in our lives is essential, it’s food and the means of producing it. The average U.S.

Farmland 139

Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 139

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020. Among the 66 peer-reviewed articles cited by Mexico is a 2021 paper by Mexico’s Institute of Sciences that found Bt toxins trigger an immune response in humans “as potent as that elicited by cholera toxin.”

Maize 141

Maize Science Food Crop 141

The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has been ringing the alarm bell about agricultural pollution for years.

Fertilizer 109

Fertilizer Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide 109

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. Who wins when wetlands lose protections?

Industrial Agriculture 94

Industrial Agriculture Acre Agriculture Agriculture 94

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

2202) YELLOW FLAG Adds “precision agriculture” to the Conservation Title and creates practices in EQIP. It adds provisions to allow for the creation of practices and funding available for precision agriculture in EQIP and CSP. The bill within EQIP allows up to 90% cost-share for precision agriculture practices.

Food 40

Food Farming Farming Farmland 40