Food Politics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Here’s my third Who Knew post of the week, this one an at-a-glance explanation of what’s wrong with the US food system, courtesy of FarmDocDaily. Greenhouse gas emissions? Greenhouse gas emissions? A focus on feed and fuel, not food? Time to rethink the food system! Now it’s 30% each. Monoculture, anyone?

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Food Tank

MARCH 22, 2025

A recent report, Climate technologies for agrifood systems transformation , highlights the urgent need for innovative climate solutions to tackle food insecurity and the escalating impacts of climate change on global agrifood systems. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the U.N. The joint report from the U.N.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While policy leaders around the world are pushing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at an unprecedented speed, the science is still working to catch up, at least when it comes to measuring carbon sequestration rates and emissions at the farm level. The conventional way of measuring carbon is to look at what is currently. 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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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 22, 2023

From greenhouses, polytunnels, silage wrap, mulching, plastic reservoirs, irrigation systems to buckets and water troughs, their presence is pervasive across all agricultural sectors. Farmers Weekly Plastics can be found everywhere on farm.

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Food Politics

MARCH 5, 2024

In the USA, one of the largest consumers and producers of meat and dairy products, livestock greenhouse gas emissions remain effectively unregulated. The post How the food industry exerts influence II: climate scientists (meat industry) appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. What might explain this?

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The saying you are what you eat is commonly recognised, but a greater truth lies just beneath the surface you are also what your food eats. You are what you eat, and what you are eating (generally speaking) is food that is grown or reared on soil that is severely lacking in nutrients.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In the last few years, the push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) across several sectors has increased. Read More In the last few years, the push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) across several sectors has increased. In 2022, the Government of Canada released their 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan. Read More

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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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Agriculture is a powerful tool for personal healing and community building, the farms co-founder Emily Emmons tells Food Tank. We started experimenting and became more aware of how food could transform our livesnot only physically but also by providing a renewed sense of purpose, John tells Food Tank.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 1, 2025

In a recent article for Speciality Food Magazine, our CEO and organic farmer, Patrick Holden, discusses the inaccessibility of good food often organic or sustainably produced compared to so-called normal food which is often cheaper to pay for at the checkout, but costly in other hidden ways. Why hasnt that happened?

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Food Tank

MARCH 21, 2025

The next N4G will be in Paris on March 26-28, 2025, and it marks an important occasion to recognize the impact current food systems have on health and amplify the need for the sustainable transformation of agriculture systems. Current food systems struggle to provide healthy diets while sustaining ecosystems.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Lots of people fly there in carbon-emitting private jets But food—the effects of agriculture on climate change (and vice versa) is on its agenda this year—a major big deal. That’s why a coalition of farmers, communities, business, and philanthropy has issued a call to transform food systems. Here’s my collection of food-related items.

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NASDA

JULY 25, 2024

Comment Re: Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks (Docket No. USDA-2024-0003) Dear Director Hohenstein, NASDA appreciates the opportunity to respond to the U.S. territories.

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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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Ohio State University

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

adults to throw away more food than they tossed before starting the medications, a new study has found. In a survey of people currently on GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, 25% of respondents agreed they had wasted more food since taking the drugs, compared to 61% who disagreed. The researchers surveyed 505 U.S.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 17, 2024

But communities that have been historically deprived of public resources risk greater health and economic threats from our climate, and, as the Executive Director of New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, I believe it’s going to take more than a three-dollar umbrella to protect these communities in a meaningful way.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 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. As panelists discussed yesterday at the Action on Food Hub Pavilion, smallholders only receive about 0.3 Smallholder farmers nourish the world.

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Food Tank

JUNE 19, 2024

Food Tank is rounding up 20 podcasts that take listeners on a journey of food and agriculture systems around the world. These shows highlight the efforts of food producers, reflect on how eaters’ earliest memories in the kitchen shaped who they became today, and offer solutions for sustainable ocean management.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

During The Players Tailgate at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, NV, Food Recovery Network (FRN) and local college students will recover surplus food to prevent it from going to waste. This marks the fourth year that FRN will recover uneaten food from the Players Tailgate. and move from food waste to food recovery.”

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 22, 2024

Up to 40 percent of all food produced around the world never makes it to anyone’s plate—a staggering fact. As Congress works to finalize the most important piece of food legislation—the coming 2024 Farm Bill—our elected leaders have an opportunity to make real progress on food waste.

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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. The country has pioneered a move towards agroecology for two decades and has already seen a 4 percent improvement in rural food security.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Climate on the Menu Read the stories in our series with Eater: Beyond Farm to Table: How Chefs Can Support Climate-Friendly Food Systems As global warming bears down, some restaurants are forging stronger bonds with regional food systems and regenerative farms. Food service buildings in the U.S., Community, environment.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Especially when it comes to food systems. Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. But among the doom and gloom shine beacons of hope.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Only last year did the food system become a major topic of international debate , during the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference. And lawmakers and the U.S.

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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. They produce around 30 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Farmers Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly England’s lowland peat soils are some of the most valuable when it comes to food production, but they also contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Draining peatland soils has allowed them to be used to grow a wide array of fresh vegetables, salads, grains, meat and dairy products over many centuries.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

When the Food Industry Association asked Americans to list reasons why they buy local produce, 82 percent of those surveyed cited a desire for freshness. Since 2013, hydroponically equipped greenhouses on the roof of the store have been producing salad greens and fresh herbs for the store below.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Most people don’t set out to waste food. It happens everywhere in our food system. Byproducts of processed foods get tossed out on the manufacturing line. All of these things add up; food waste cost the US $428 billion in 2022. In addition to the monetary costs, wasted food could be going to those who need it— 12.8

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NASDA

JUNE 12, 2023

News Article This article was originally published by Food Safety Magazine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement produce safety. “State and local health and agriculture departments have been ensuring the quality and safety of food for a long time, by conducting millions of inspections annually. .

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tanks newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. I am still in awe of everything Food Tank accomplished over the last year, and today I want to give you some insight into how we plan to build on this momentum heading into 2025.We Its nothing we cant pull off, but we need your help!

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Philanthropic organizations are increasingly investing in systemic food and agriculture solutions, says Anna Lappé, Executive Director for the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. She believes that a lack of understanding of the “systemic nature of food and hunger issues” is partly to blame. Climate Change Conference. “We

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Climate Change Conference, food systems experts discussed opportunities for food policy and the private sector to address food loss and waste. The conversation was hosted by Food Tank and the Nordic Council of Ministers. Food loss in the Global South and the Global North are very very different.”

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

COPs are historically where key climate decisions are made, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which signing parties agreed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to the goal of keeping warming to 1.5 Also in attendance are policymakers, NGOs, lobbyists, scientists and more. degrees Celsius.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On September 25, Congresswoman Julia Brownley (CA-26) and I introduced the Voluntary Food Climate Labeling Act, legislation that will revolutionize the way consumers learn about the climate impact of the food they eat. Under the legislation, the U.S.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 17, 2024

t foods are typically made from the by-products of human food production. Pet foods therefore, reduces food waste. What percentage of greenhouse gases are attributable to pet food? link] The chief findings of this analysis of Brazilian pet foodss: Pet food has a high environmental impact.

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Food Politics

MARCH 27, 2025

Heres a short collection of recent items on the plant-based food market. Plant-based watch: Whats the latest on plant-based in food and beverages :The plant-based industry has faced some serious difficulties in recent years. So, whats next for animal-free foods and beverages. Duckweed is far more than just a pond-dwelling plant.

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