Food Tank

JANUARY 3, 2025

But their ability to fulfill this role requires food and agriculture systems stakeholders to economically support their efforts. And when the soils are degraded, Lal warns, food quality, yields, and ultimately communities suffer. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 27, 2025

Enhancing food security amid climate change through rewilding and de novo domestication. Stable AND high-yielding? Chromosome-scale reference genome of an ancient landrace: unveiling the genetic basis of seed weight in the food legume crop pigeonpea ( Cajanus cajan ). Moench] landraces. Sounds like hard work. But worth doing.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Herber tells Food Tank there is a willingness among farmers to go organic, for the sake of the land, their families. But he explains that yield loss and administrative work can discourage them from transitioning. Really working to promote the need for organic, the meaning of organic, he tells Food Tank. According to the U.S.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The Mystery of Black Rice: Food, Medicinal, and Spiritual Uses of Oryza glaberrima by Maroon Communities in Suriname and French Guiana. Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters. The sedimentary record can be used to recover traditional knowledge too.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Drivers and stressors of resilience to food insecurity: evidence from 35 countries. Genetic modification can improve crop yields — but stop overselling it. parasitism in major cereal crops for enhanced crop production and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review. …but that doesn’t mean agroecology is wrong.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Helios was co-founded by Francisco Martin-Rayo and Eden Canlilar, two food and technology entrepreneurs from different backgrounds. This service shows importers and exporters whether they can rely on a region to yield a specific crop or need to pivot to another crop or region. Become a member today by clicking here.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 15, 2025

The organization is working within communities to facilitate local land access and support strong local food systems. A lot of folks are retiring, Jean Theron Willoughby, Executive Director at Agrarian Trust, tells Food Tank. Willoughby tells Food Tank. According to Agrarian Trust, more than 40 percent of U.S.

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Real Agriculture

JANUARY 29, 2024

Tar spot was a little late arriving in Ontario cornfields in 2023, but the leaf disease ramped up post tasseling, and with an extended fall, took a late-season bite out of grain yields in southwestern areas of the province. Growers who sprayed fungicides to defend their crop against disease were rewarded with higher yields, reports.

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Agwired

MARCH 11, 2025

Over 300 agricultural and food organizations have signed on to a letter calling for sound science and data to be used by the Make America Healthy Again Commission in upcoming evaluations for products essential to food and agriculture. consumers can continue to access a safe, abundant and affordable food supply.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 29, 2024

More Than Dirt: Threats to food supply include Wall Street and foreign ownership of farmland, green energy and yield growth in grain crops.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world, what some of us now call Planet Desert. While climate change will generate many severe impacts on our food systems that we cannot control including floods, wildfires and more severe hurricanes. And yet, much of what the U.S. In the U.S.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Global analysis reveals persistent shortfalls and regional differences in availability of foods needed for health. There’s enough food in the world, but not enough healthy food. Pulses would seem to be a good bet as healthy foods. We’re going to need a lot more healthy foods. Rich) Harms] accessions.

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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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Sustainable Harvest International

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Family farmers can develop flourishing businesses while supporting local food systems, food sovereignty, and sustainability. SUPPORT FAMILY FARMERS FEEDING THEIR COMMUNITIES Farmers can increase their yields while caring for the land by restoring soil health and adopting agroecological techniques.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Across all of human history, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 6,000 plant species have been cultivated for food. We must remember: Saving seeds is saving culture.

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Real Agriculture

AUGUST 20, 2024

If farm fields show a deficit, how much potash should be broadcast to maintain yield? If farm fields show a deficit, how much potash should be broadcast to maintain yield? Is that rate safe for the plant and economical for the grower? Is that rate safe for the plant and economical for the grower?

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2023

Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. But difficult spring conditions can leave soybean seedlings fighting to emerge and unable to contribute to the population levels needed to reach yield expectations. Read More Strong plant stands can set a soybean crop up for big yields. Read More

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Last week, COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, signaled its intent to bring food systems into future COP negotiations. Until now, fixing food systems had hardly been on the environmental agenda, with most attention going to the energy sector. COP28 has shown a new level of commitment to changing food systems.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A school gardening program in Texas demonstrates that hands-on food education can improve children’s eating habits in underserved communities, according to recent research published in the International Journal for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. acre teaching gardens.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MARCH 27, 2024

Max considers how stifling hygiene regulations are propagating a sense of shame amongst some small-scale producers, promoting the misconception that traditionally produced foods are ‘unclean’, a narrative that risks further eroding local food cultures. They had no place in this natural context. Non ” was his response. It never did.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 23, 2023

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs soybean specialist Horst Bohner has seen his fair share of. Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs soybean specialist Horst Bohner has seen his fair share of. Read More Many agronomic and environmental factors can contribute to uneven soybean emergence.

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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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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers utilize a range of modern toolsfrom task management applications and drones that monitor crop health to sensors and software that help forecast yields. This is where data becomes not only invaluable but imperative, helping farmers grow more food while conserving resources; farming smarter, not harder as the saying goes.

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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. human rights conference on food justice in Doha, Qatar.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The drought has left more than 7 million people without enough food. The few farmers who planted pearl millet, finger millet, or sorghum had better yields. As farmers, it’s time we go back to our traditional crops,” Leonard Madanhire, a small-scale farmer in Mutare district in eastern Zimbabwe, tells Food Tank.

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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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Food Tank

JANUARY 10, 2025

And for Hutton, pig farming has not only improved soil health and yield but also reminded him why he loves farming. Hutton hopes that companies like Niman Ranch with a stronger connection to consumers will help to get more people interested in where their food comes from. Can we please count on you to be part of our growing movement?

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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While other crops like corn have exponentially benefited from hybrid technology over the years, challenges with wheat production systems have presented barriers to consistently and cost-effectively leveraging such game-changing technology – ultimately limiting the ability to deliver meaningful yield improvements.

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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 26, 2024

Farmers need better information systems, Bram Govaerts, Director General of CIMMYT tells Food Tank. It is no longer about increasing the yields and production, Govaerts says. It is about making sure that you have a minimum amount of yields and production independent of the climate shocks and drought and heat.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He hasn’t written much about food and farming in recent years; this was his big food book. I think there are a lot of problems with his arguments; the energetic aspects of single-cell protein-manufactured foods are quite problematic. It’s also self-limiting; once you’ve produced enough food to eat, you stop.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 5, 2024

When it comes to how climate change is impacting our food, there are the short-, medium- and long-term impacts. In the short term, food security is a huge concern whenever an extreme weather event happens in an area. If there’s a fire or drought, crops can die off and yields go down.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Markets Institute at World Wildlife Fund (WWF) proposed a new framework to support the growing demand for globally traded food while reducing the worst environmental consequences of food production. According to WWF , food production has the largest impact of any human activity on the planet.

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Agric4profits

JUNE 17, 2024

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis), the tree of the mulberry family (Moraceae), and its large fruits are a staple food of the South Pacific and other tropical area

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My goal in doing so is to raise awareness of practices that give the nutrition profession the appearance of undue food industry influence at the expense of public health. At the very least, when nutrition researchers accept funding from food companies, they give the appearance of conflict of interest.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 17, 2023

Then, we’ll hear from Albert Tenuta, plant pathologist with Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs, on tar spot risk in. Then, we’ll hear from Albert Tenuta, plant pathologist with Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs, on tar spot risk in. Read More

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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