Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55 000–50 000 years ago. Rice domestication pushed back to about the same time as the Fertile Crescent. Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America. There was more to the peopling of the Pacific than seafaring.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In August, Rich Earth released a Farmer Guide to Fertilizing with Urine , available for free on their website. The multi-year trials found that crops fertilized with human urine performed better than untreated control plots. But the potential benefits of fertilizing with human urine reach far beyond the fields of Vermont.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition to growing millet, sorghum, maize, and other crops, they produce seeds to use the following year. We can make things at the community level, involve the community from the start, so that they can own the process from the start,” says Tenkouano. “At the local level, one should be able to produce as much as what is needed.”

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption. Recent legislative efforts in the US are trying to halt these deals; Image sourced from WoodRuff Food processing and distribution is becoming increasingly concentrated too.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla. Varieties of Mexican corn on display at a restaurant in Oaxaca City.

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