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Op-Ed | Why the World’s Food Systems Need to Transition Away from Industrial Agriculture

Food Tank

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. COP28 can encourage a food system transformation based on the principles of agroecology.

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Op-Ed | Look to Local Food Policies for Climate Hope

Food Tank

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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23 Fall Food and Agriculture Books to Discover Now

Food Tank

This fall, Food Tank serves up a list of 23 new titles that explore the complex world that food eaters face today. Awaiting Their Feast, and Life and Death of the American Worker dive into some of the realities that workers face within the food system. Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health by William A.

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Report Finds That Agriculture Is Breaching Several Planetary Boundaries

Food Tank

The climate crisis is not a standalone crisis,” Duko Hopman, a partner at McKinsey and co-author of the report, tells Food Tank. As a sector, agriculture has the single largest direct impact on planetary boundaries. As a sector, agriculture has the single largest direct impact on planetary boundaries.

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Cream Co. Meats Is Reshaping the Meat Industry One Farm at a Time

Food Tank

Meats is working to create opportunities for small farms and ranches to support a more localized food system. “We’re We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By An assessment by the U.N.

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Summer reading 2023: Book reviews

Sustainable Food Trust

If you really want to get to know your food, spend some time with The Seed Detective and you’ll be more literate and informed about the wonder of your vegetables. At the same time, diets are becoming increasingly ultra-processed at the expense of nutritious whole foods. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy.