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New Report Notes the Global Struggle Over Farmland and Food Sovereignty

Food Tank

Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. A global shift in food systems, including more industrialized agriculture practices and increased use of agrichemicals, is an additional contributor to the land squeeze.

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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

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.

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Investors Rewind 10 Years of AgTech: Supervillains, Heroes and Unexpected Truths

World Agri-Tech

Vipula Shukla, GATES FOUNDATION Vipula Shukla, Senior Program Officer, Agriculture R&D, THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION : “The hero is always the progressive, technology-driven farmer/producer who understands what does and does not add value to their operation. HarvestHero is winning, barely. anyone who eats!)

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

This was potentially world-altering technology. It’s an all-too-familiar story for mission-driven agritech startups, one that illuminates the bargains even the most idealistic of entrepreneurs must strike to survive in a savage industry. Something potentially very big. billion in 2012 to $51.7

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The Iowa Trout Stream at the Center of a Feedlot Fight

Civil Eats

Many cancers are linked to nitrates , which are found in drinking water contaminated with manure or nitrogen fertilizer, and advocates are concerned about the link. And for good reason: Cattle is the top-ranked agricultural commodity in the U.S. Northeast Iowa’s Driftless region has not seen glacial drift in over 2 million years.

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‘An Insane Amount of Water’: What Climate Change Means For California’s Biggest Dairy District

Modern Farmer

Within decades, a network of dams, levees and canals had dried up the basin, transforming the fertile crater into an agricultural hub. They’re currently the only technology in the entire state that reduces methane,” she adds. For their part, dairy farmers are duly engaged in sustainability efforts, says Raudabaugh.

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Summer reading 2023: Book reviews

Sustainable Food Trust

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.

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