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Do We Need to Farm Oil Crops?

Modern Farmer

It has also come under fire because palm oil plantations in Asia, Latin America and West Africa have resulted in deforestation and negative impacts on human communities. Palm oil, for example, is in many processed foods at American supermarkets. Fats could be synthesized at scale, says Davis.

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Urban Agriculture isn’t as Climate-Friendly as It Seems. These Best Practices Can Help.

Modern Farmer

With transportation’s greenhouse gas emissions eliminated, it’s a small leap to assume that urban agriculture is a simple climate solution. Most research on urban agriculture has focused on a single type of urban farming, often high-tech projects, such as aquaponic tanks, rooftop greenhouses or vertical farms.

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Our Best Climate Reporting of 2023

Civil Eats

Farms Adapt to Climate Change Sorghum—popular among young, BIPOC, and under-resourced farmers—has extra long roots that allow it to withstand drought and sequester greenhouse gasses. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt? farm landscape.

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Chiquita Found Guilty of Murder Abroad, Other US Food Companies May Be Next

Civil Eats

multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule for heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards, which aims to curb smog, soot, and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

Sustainable Food Trust

Next to the entrance is an eye-catching display of bedding plants which are grown in one of the farm’s greenhouses. A gap year of just travelling didn’t feel right, so he took a job on a palm oil plantation in Papua New Guinea. The shop is housed in a modern, one-storey building. In 2005, aged 23, he returned to the farm.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

Civil Eats

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. 1 commodity for the last 64 years.

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Look What Nicola Twilley Found in the Fridge

Civil Eats

But through consolidation and dependence on a single crop, big plantations in Central America and the foreign corporations that run them have also [left a legacy of] political monoculture in the region. There are also subtle downsides to taste and nutrition. I think it’s a potential time bomb.