Real Agriculture
DECEMBER 5, 2024
December 5, the international day to celebrate soil, was first recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002. This year, the theme is ‘Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.’ This year, the theme is ‘Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.’
Food Tank
JANUARY 3, 2025
Farmers hold the key to restoring the worlds soils, says Rattan Lal, Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at the Ohio State University and a Goodwill Ambassador for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). People are the mirror image of the soil they live on.
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NASDA
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 15, 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. We expect so much from farmers, and they’re so central to a climate-smart future for the food system and for the planet. And we need to work locally!
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. It is obvious to most of us that food is a human right. But our discussions of food justice need to be grounded—literally—in what experts are calling a right to healthy soils. If we want good food, we need good soil.
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.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 1, 2023
These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. So far this year, we have shared numerous stories of creative thinkers across the food system pursuing efforts to reduce damage, increase resilience, and adapt to the new and ever-changing realities.
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