Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Across seven chapters, each uncovering a different element of the Welsh landscape, Graves celebrates the diverse ecosystems of his homeland, revealing how the land has been transformed by humans ever since they first began harvesting wood and herding animals. Agriculture had not yet quite arrived as a practice and food was abundant.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

One person who does is Stacy Woods , research director for the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. A geostatistican by training, Dr. Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Indigenous ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist foraged with her mom and grandmother in the Ohio River Valley as a child, then made the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota her home alongside her husband, Luke. My mom was an Indigenous woman from Korea, and she grew up foraging and growing her own food as a matter of survival.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving , when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. For centuries before Europeans reached North America, many Native Americans grew these foods together in one plot, along with the less familiar sunflower.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Regenerative agriculture offers a powerful solution to today’s interconnected crises, including the climate crisis, poverty, declining food security, and biodiversity loss. SHI-Belize partner farmer Juvini Acosta reforests land affected by conventional agriculture. In improving the soil, SHI farmers improve the environment.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. And he serves as chair of the board of the Eva Clayton Rural Food Institute, founded in January 2023 to help deliver healthy food to communities in rural North Carolina. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

One person who does is Stacy Woods , research director for the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. A geostatistican by training, Dr. Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 9, 2025

Brita Lundberg, a fourth-generation farmer and the Chief Storyteller for Lundberg Family Farms describes the Regenerative Organic Certification as holistic, telling Food Tank that were really proud and thankful we were able to achieve it. My dad likes to call them a win-win-win-win-win, working in partnership with nature, she tells Food Tank.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Utesch worries that the current system of industrialized agriculture has created a world where people living closest to the polluters do not have access to clean water themselves, and are afraid to speak out against the actions of their neighbors. Public water systems have these maximum contaminant levels that are set by the EPA.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

This Earth Day, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) has curated a second compilation of thirteen impactful practices and daily routines that, when adopted, nurture our planet and preserve it for future generations. Local Food Systems SHI trains and empowers family farmers as they transition towards sustainable farming practices.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For smallholding farmers in developing nations, who grow more than a third of the world’s food, having Plantix on your phone was like having a highly accurate plant pathologist in your back pocket, one who would also present afflicted farmers with options for treatment. This was potentially world-altering technology.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have a wide selection of food and agriculture books to recommend, both for gift-giving purposes and for the quiet moments you carve out for yourself. Tilde Herrera The Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos By Mark J. The book goes beyond the problems, too.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending their days producing food, they relied on food banks to eat.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. It may seem quaint compared to the industrial operations that grow most of the world’s food, but outfits like Patryn’s Nautical Farms are poised to skyrocket in number over the next few years. territorial waters would produce as much protein as 2.3

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Joan Dye Gussow, who died last Friday at age 96 , was a fiercely independent thinker and food-system visionary whose ideas caught on and rippled outward. And because of her, we began to understand the deleterious impacts of the industrialized food systemamong them depleted soil, poisoned water, and metabolic disease.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Avoid the never-ending scroll on streaming platforms and instead refer to our list of recommended food and farming films, especially selected, watched and reviewed by the SFT team for your viewing pleasure. Reinventing Farming and Food Post-globalisation Director: Rana Foroohar Where to watch: Financial Times’ YouTube channel.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 4 million readers a year 200k social reach Yale Environment 360 A new kind of food may soon be arriving on grocery store shelves: climate smart. Secchi, meanwhile, questions why some of the wealthiest corporations and individuals in industrial agriculture are receiving additional federal money.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. From memoirs to cultural histories to journalistic inquiries that take on topics ranging from plant intelligence to school food to climate migration, here are 21 titles we hope you’ll enjoy.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Nation Do nations have the right to determine their own food policies? Can they make laws to safeguard domestic agriculture, public health, the environment, and the genetic integrity of the national diet? In Mexico, corn is not just a commodity, or even just a favorite food or source of protein. A protest against U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

The way Bayer engaged with the stores that sell its inputs was also what caught the attention of Jason Davidson, a food and agriculture campaigner at the environmental advocacy organization Friends of the Earth. distributor of crop inputs” and that its crop input services reach roughly half of harvested cropland acres in the country.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) highlights the critical role of forests and wild foods in transforming food systems. If current trends persist, the brief warns, the degradation of forest food systems will continue to challenge global efforts to address food insecurity, biodiversity loss, and the climate crisis.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

If you’re near a CAFO, being outside can be risky: Once, when her dad was harvesting the last of the corn, the CAFO across the road spread its manure on fields surrounding the Trom farm, and she says her dad became so dizzy he had to get off the combine to vomit. regardless of who is in power. That’s empowering.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. Across the globe, nearly one in eight people depend on wetlands for fishing, rice farming, hunting, and tourism.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Ocho Sur’s links to deforestation have profound implications for businesses, consumers, and the environment and what exactly counts as “sustainability” in the palm oil industry. Last year, the European Union passed new regulations on deforestation that promised to be the strictest in the world.

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