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Op-Ed | A Case for Food Diversification

Food Tank

Diversification is the key to the resilience of our food systems. By diversifying food systems, we can build a more resilient and sustainable system capable of adapting to climate and market fluctuations while also providing more nutritious food for local consumers. I have also learned about, and advocate for, opportunities.

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Industry-funded study of the week: dairy foods

Food Politics

Comment: The relative contributions of animal foods to greenhouse gas production are under debate. This research, funded by the dairy industry and conducted by authors who work for dairy companies, concludes that restricting dairy foods does not reduce environmental impact but makes diets cost more.

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Harvesting Solutions: How Food Systems Can Unlock Progress on Climate and Biodiversity

Food Tank

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Brainfood: Ag and CC, Improved varieties, Yield growth, Food system transformation, CGIAR maize, Genetic erosion, NBSAPs, Technology & conservation, Cattle breeding

Agricultural Biodiversity

Crop improvements from 19612015 resulted in less cropland expansion, lower greenhouse gas emissions and fewer extinctions. Yield growth patterns of food commodities: Insights and challenges. Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. At least in the global aggregate.

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Op-ed: The Food System Cannot Become Another Fossil-Fuel Industry Escape Hatch

Civil Eats

Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system.” Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system. The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. One key reason: the industrial food chain and its ultra-processed foods are deeply dependent on fossil fuels.

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Who knew? III. Corn-plus-soybean share of US crop acreage

Food Politics

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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U.N. Report Calls for Climate Tech for Food System Resilience

Food Tank

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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