Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With all the challenges restaurants have faced in the past five years—COVID, inflation, price gouging—the impact of climate change on their supply chains has often been overlooked. And there’s mustard: Prices skyrocketed in 2021 due to a severe drought in Canada, the world’s largest producer of brown mustard seeds.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Methane is a short-lived but potent greenhouse gas that scientists say has driven roughly 30 percent of Earth’s warming since pre-industrial times. The USDA is currently considering a proposal for expanding credit options to include whole nuts, seeds, and legumes, according to an agency spokesperson contacted by Civil Eats.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But while the world watched as engineers scrambled to remove this gargantuan threat to a multi-billion dollar supply chain, CAFF was back home planting seeds for local resilience. While the plight of that oversized boat and its 20,000 shipping containers did finally come to an end, our country’s supply chain woes have not.

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Food Tank

APRIL 15, 2024

This is because there is demand for the seeds, but not the surrounding fruit or other parts of the plant. The company also works with workers along the coffee supply chain to empower them to commercialize coffee byproducts. pounds of greenhouse gas, and saves 102 gallons of water. African elephants.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

He showed me the stacks of donated piping that hes going to set up in a greenhouse so he can grow food hydroponically, year-round and free from pests. The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds.

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Hartwood Farm

APRIL 7, 2022

However, we aren’t taking on any single large project (like last year’s shed and tunnel, or the greenhouse the year before, or all the equipment before that. They are lifechanging (and make little indents in the soil of our seed flats so the seeds are all perfectly triangulated in the middle of the cell).

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Some see the answer to more sustainable fabrics in new materials that can readily decompose or be recycled; others say natural fibers and local supply chains are the way to go. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. What’s the solution? Another big factor is end of life.

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Agwired

JANUARY 31, 2024

SustainCERT conducted a rigorous audit of Eco-Harvest project outcomes for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and removals to be used for corporate partner agricultural supply chain reporting. Eco-Harvest Impact Units, and supporting programmatic documentation, are listed on SustainCERT’s VIVID platform.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Data from the 2022 Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report reveals that the number of seed stage deals rose nearly 70% in 2021, compared to an 8% jump the previous year , while overall agrifoodtech deals grew 250% from 2020. A further breakdown indicates that Egypt claimed $186.1 million, with Nigeria securing $147.8 million, Kenya $88.5

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AGRIVI

JANUARY 10, 2024

It provides a holistic approach to tracking and managing fertigation and irrigation practices, intended primarily for substrate-grown berries and vegetables in greenhouses, and illustrates well the full range of benefits that technology brings while making agriculture practices more efficient, productive, and sustainable.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmers across the country are experiencing climate impacts as a crisis.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

The major food safety recalls have occurred in greenhouses, which lack certain design controls that a truly controlled environment can provide and therefore can’t minimize the risk the same way vertical farms can.” Learn more about Planted Detroit in this exclusive interview. FURTHER READING The Pandemic Reshaped Farm.One's Entire Business.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. These taxes are imposed on imported goods and can create changes throughout the agricultural supply chain, impacting everything from farm gate prices to consumer costs. Buy local when possible.)

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Hartwood Farm

MAY 15, 2022

I’m the same distance and direction from Lake Ontario now, but I can’t enjoy the truly amazing views sky views off our escapement over the lake plain, because I’m racing around like a maniac battening down hatches and row covers and greenhouses and saying frantic prayers that they all survive.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The seed of a solution A new funding stream for growers is required, Melvin says, to get leftover produce into the food bank system. Billed as a food rescue charity, Second Harvest collects surplus food from across the supply chain and redistributes it. Feed Nova Scotia is one possible option to accomplish that.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 24, 2022

Those commitments could include a particular set of tractors and implements, or certain field layouts or greenhouses or barns or market delivery systems and so on. We simply don’t have the equipment, storage and harvest capacity, labor, seed access, materials, and so on. Height of nimbleness?

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We've done a lot of analysis comparing our farming costs to traditional farms and greenhouses, and we are close in all categories. HGS: You mentioned the competitiveness of AmplifiedAg relative to greenhouses, but the vertical farming sector is going through quite a few challenges this year (2022), and even this quarter (Q4) alone.

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DTN

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, the USDA conservation reserve program (CRP), which has been running for more than 35 years, has successfully reduced soil erosion, decreased nitrogen and phosphorus runoff, sequestered greenhouse gases, restored over 3 million acres of wetlands, and benefited wildlife. Cover crops are a good example of this. from 2022 to 2030.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

We learned that the garden is home to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) foodways that serve as an archive of seeds for African, Middle Eastern, and Four Corners bio-regional terraces, to protect culturally rooted, regionally adapted foods. Vrain School District’s innovative wide-ranging experiential learning programming.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) includes provisions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by supporting farmers and ranchers with farm-driven, science-based means to meet climate goals. Farmer and crop insurance agent, Landon Plagge of Green Acres Seed Co. in Iowa, concurred. “I

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The committee considered the bill in a 13.5-hour

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Their programs aim to deepen public understanding of the forces shaping food systems by focusing on corporate control, land grabs, people’s control of seeds, and food sovereignty as a solution to the climate crisis. They currently have 13 urban agricultural facilities, school gardens, hydroponic greenhouses, and soil-based farms.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They are behind the Fair Food Program , a partnership that seeks to create a more ethical supply chain that benefits workers, growers, retailers, and eaters. Every seed is important. Theres nothing more meaningful than planting a seed and watching it grow, says Waters.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing. Jewell asks.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

Price Loss Coverage and Agricultural Risk Coverage The centerpiece of Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson’s (R-PA-15) farm bill is an increase in the reference price – or price floor below which a government payment is triggered – by 10-20 percent for commodities covered under PLC, including peanuts, rice, seed, cotton, corn, and soybeans.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2025

In October, the administration unveiled a national strategy to reduce food waste , which is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. It has also launched and Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative that includes seed-saving hubs and invested $25 million in IRA funds into the Bison Restoration Initiative.

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