Food Politics

MARCH 5, 2024

It is common for the animal agriculture industry to challenge the necessity to shift to a plant-based food system, question causation, dispute the messenger, and contest suggested proplant-based policies. The post How the food industry exerts influence II: climate scientists (meat industry) appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Every now and then I run across a report about something I know absolutely nothing about but wish I did, and this is one of them—an analysis from the University of California on Sample Costs to Produce and Harvest Romaine Hearts Lettuce. Apparently, industrial lettuce is an entirely different matter. Enjoy the weekend!

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Western FarmPress

AUGUST 29, 2024

All Husker Harvest Days attendees are encouraged to donate nonperishable food items at the show or at participating groceries stores.

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The bottom line: 30% of harvested acres is devoted to corn, and another 30% to soybeans. The post US industrial agriculture at a glance appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle. These, of course, are largely genetically modified. This is industrial agriculture at a glance. Regenerative agriculture anyone?

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Real Agriculture

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding. It’s made for stressful harvest seasons, especially in 2018 when mycotoxins produced by the gibberella fungus in some fields climbed well above safe feeding.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 16, 2023

I’ve been tracking what’s happening with GMO plantings for a long time, ever since writing Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. It’s titled, “ More than half of harvested U.S. It’s titled, “ More than half of harvested U.S. It’s an indicator of corporate consolidation and control of the food supply.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) is an organization working in Central America to provide technical assistance and training to rural farming families that will help them produce food in a more sustainable way. Every partnership includes dialogue, time, and plenty of listening,” Roa tells Food Tank.

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Food Politics

MAY 14, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule on agricultural water that represents an important step toward enhancing the safety of produce. Testing pre-harvest agricultural water. The post The FDA’s new agricultural water rule appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 20, 2024

As cereal crops race to the finish line across Ontario, many growers are weighing the option of planting soybeans after a first harvest, which is already underway in some winter barley fields in southwestern portions of the province. Embro, Ont., farmer Ian Matheson and his family have been double cropping soybeans for two decades.

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Global Agtech Initiative

AUGUST 12, 2024

The post SVG Ventures | THRIVE and JETRO Partner to Launch Harvest Horizons to Propel Japanese Agri-Food Tech Startups appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative. The partnership will encompass a 6-week acceleration period followed by two immersion weeks in Silicon Valley.

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Food Politics

JULY 18, 2024

s growing and harvesting seasons are over. The self-protective reaction According to Food Safety News , the Florida Department of Agriculture (FDOA) called the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) tracing of a Salmonella outbreak to a local cucumber grower “at best inaccurate, and at worst misleading.” Bedner Growers, Inc.’s

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

During a recent event organized by Food Tank and Traditional Medicinals, speakers discussed the growing interest in plant-based medicine, the role of herbal medicine in food systems, and the potential benefits these products can have on human and planetary health. For millennia , food has been used as a form of medicine.

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FreshFarm Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Join FRESHFARM at The REACH Plaza for Harvest Day, a fun-filled and delicious exploration of our local food system

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 29, 2024

Across the Phoenix metro area, citrus trees sag under the weight of more produce than homeowners can harvest and use. Thousands of pounds of fruit go to waste every year while more than half a million area residents struggle with food insecurity.

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FreshFarm Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Join FRESHFARM at The REACH Plaza for Harvest Day, a fun-filled and delicious exploration of our local food system

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Food-sourcing from on-farm trees mediates positive relationships between tree cover and dietary quality in Malawi. Does long-term harvesting impact genetic diversity and population genetic structure? Plant diversity decreases greenhouse gas emissions by increasing soil and plant carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems.

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Food Politics

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

If you want to know about food for people , you can looik at Table 36. Vegetables, Potatoes, and Melons Harvested for Sale: 2022 and 2017 All of this is in miserable-to-read tables. We should not be growing food crops to produce automobile fuel.

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Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

STEC strains detected in water, sediment, and plant tissue harvested from our research plots genetically matched strains isolated in air samples providing evidence that bacteria in air can transfer to other locations and surfaces.” [ Toxic bacteria get around easily ]. Here is food safety lawyer Bill Marler’s comment.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This designation helps sustain Native culture, reassure public health, and encourage state food sovereignty. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to embrace these benefits. The rise of plantation agriculture uprooted Native communities, replacing local food systems with sprawling sugarcane and pineapple fields.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’re closing out Farm-to-School Month by sharing the next installment of Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum: Growing from Seed to Harvest. You can check out Module 1 here: Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System. Most of the tomatoes sold in the U.S.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

food system’s disproportionate impact on immigrants and communities of color. Immigrant food system workers toil in the nation’s restaurants, farms, and food processing facilities, and have some of the least visible but most strenuous and dangerous jobs in the country. As part of our mission, Civil Eats reports on the U.S.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Farm Action , an organization devoted to stopping corporate agrocultural monopolies and building fair competition in rural America, has issued a short report, Balancing the US Agricuiltural Trade Deficit with Higher Value Food Crops. food system focuses on feed for animals and fuel for automobiles. Make them happen!

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Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly After winning a net-zero food and farming competition, Oxfordshire farmer Ben Adams is conducting a field-scale intercropping trial to assess which crop combinations perform best in terms of yield, quality and harvest ease.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Food Tank is rounding up 25 books about the past, present, and future of global food and agriculture systems to get you through the winter. Insatiable City by Theresa McCulla explores race, power, and social status in New Orleans through the lens of food. In Chop Chop , Ozoz Sokoh celebrates Nigerian cuisine through 100 recipes.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the summer months, Flor Sanchez and the members of her harvest crew rise before dawn and arrive at a cherry orchard in Washington state’s Yakima Valley when there is only the slightest hint of daylight. “We Climbing up into the branches to harvest the ripe fruit in near-darkness, she says, “seems a little dangerous.”

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Reducing post-harvest Losses is essential for farmers and communities alike. It means minimizing the amount of food that goes to waste after crops are

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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 7, 2025

The nonprofit Michigan Fitness Foundation (MFF) is working to connect families in Michigan facing food insecurity with local farms, strengthen local food systems and build community. CSAs help consumers to support local farms by buying a share of that years harvest before the farmer has planted. MF2FCSA is supported by the U.S

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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. History professor Lori A.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Food justice reporting has been a cornerstone of Civil Eats’ coverage since we launched 15 years ago. This year, we further explored how people are working toward food justice in their communities. We are committed to elevating the voices of people who produce our food, as well as those who are affected by its production.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 29, 2024

Mahanta studying cold plasma to reduce post-harvest grain loss The post Fed up with food waste, student works toward solutions appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Northeast Regional Food Business Center is pleased to award $2 million in sub-award funding to 17 technical assistance provider organizations across the Northeast. We are excited to support these providers as they continue the work of strengthening our local and regional food systems, NASDA Foundation Senior Director Chris Jones said.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2024

Local Foods Mohawk Valley (LFMV), located in Clinton, New York, wants to forge a future for online farmers’ markets in a post pandemic world. The organization is motivated to increase access to local food and during LFMV’s first year of operation has also boosted farmers’ lifestyles, community relations, and the local economy.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. This may seem like an antiquated concern for chefs in an era of global food distribution systems, but it’s an all-consuming preoccupation for Oyster Oyster, a restaurant named after two ingredients—a bivalve and a mushroom —known for their ecosystem benefits.

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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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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. Many tribes in Alaska are very intertribal, sharing similar foods and waterways.

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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. Switching to agroecology offers a way to produce food within diverse landscapes growing and nurturing different crops, livestock and fisheries suited to the conditions and communities that live in the area.

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