Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

With soil depletion progressing at its current rate, “there are only a few dozen harvest cycles left, so agribusiness is taking those predictions very seriously,” Hopman reports to Food Tank. According to Hopman, agri-food companies are facing real threats to their profits because of factors like declining soil health and nutrient pollution.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I grew up with a lot of really amazing fresh food that was both grown and harvested, and all of that family history led me to study plants in school. Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. For example, if I had a sore throat, my mom would make me ginger and lemon tea with honey.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Planted with dwarf hybrid varieties, sprayed with pesticides, and shocked dead with glyphosate for easier harvesting by combines, this was the kind of landscapes the critics of industrial agriculture decry: one devoid of diversity, dead except for the one plant species that happens to be valued by modern humans: wheat.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Kimmerer looks to the serviceberry trees she harvests from, bringing readers attention to the way they distribute their berries to meet the needs of the natural community. These plants, she argues, offer a model of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude that the world can benefit from.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. Across the road, peacocks shriek. They must be pets?

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

“ “My philosophy has always been that the health of soil, plants, animals, people, and the environment is one.” ” — Rattan Lal, professor of soil science + 2020 World Food Prize Laureate Conventional, or industrial, agriculture uses chemicals to defend crops from weeds, certain insect species, and diseases.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

They also provide habitats for roughly half of endangered species, from cranes to crocodiles, and 75% of harvested fish and shellfish. Wetlands help mitigate climate change by trapping and storing carbon. Wetlands help prevent water pollution by filtering harmful pollutants before they get into our drinking water systems.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Welch also provides tips on best shopping and harvesting practices to help eaters start cutting waste even before they reach the kitchen. With stories from around the world, the book showcases the methods these farmers have found to work with natural forces and regenerate the land we all rely on to feed us.

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Civil Eats

MAY 1, 2024

Utesch worries that the current system of industrialized agriculture has created a world where people living closest to the polluters do not have access to clean water themselves, and are afraid to speak out against the actions of their neighbors. “If If the landowner doesn’t care, why would an operator care? I don’t blame them.”

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Food Tank

JANUARY 9, 2025

Thats why, following the rice harvest, they flood a portion of their fields that birds can flock to. Lundberg says that their rice fields are able to replicate those natural wetlands, especially in the winter when the birds really depend on that habitat.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

This Earth Day, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) has curated a second compilation of thirteen impactful practices and daily routines that, when adopted, nurture our planet and preserve it for future generations. Each year, Earth Day reminds us of the beauty and importance of our one and only home.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

Across seven chapters, each uncovering a different element of the Welsh landscape, Graves celebrates the diverse ecosystems of his homeland, revealing how the land has been transformed by humans ever since they first began harvesting wood and herding animals.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

He wanted to ask them about the weather, their planting schedule, and harvest date. Plantix began its journey as an idea in the heads of people who recognized the problems with industrialized agriculture and explored ambitious ways of solving them.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. But just like industrial agriculture on land, such operations can harm the environment – and given the role kelp forests play in sequestering carbon, the climate. It’s also relatively cheap. The two states account for more than 85 percent of the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. Her parents were farmworkers, and despite spending their days producing food, they relied on food banks to eat.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Joan was instrumental in some of my thinking for my book Bitter Harvest , and when I went to the Ross School to build a healthy, nutritious, delicious school food program, Joan graciously gave of her time and energy to teach and educate our team. I was thrilled when she agreed to write the foreword to my 2000 book Sharing the Harvest.

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Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

The film unravels some of the issues that have driven our present-day problems, and points to a way forward that draws on the time-honoured practices of mixed rotational farming, eschewing extractive industrial food production for a more hopeful, sustainable future. Film poster courtesy of Mystic Arts. on Amazon Prime/Apple TV/iTunes.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. There’s going to be farmer confusion,” Kiel says. It’s unfortunate, but at least there’s going to be lots of choices.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If they could survive heavy dousing, writes Barstow: [Farmers] could spray Roundup—which was still under patent—over millions of acres of row crops throughout the growing season, killing weeds throughout the spring and summer without hurting their harvest. This was a market opportunity of astounding proportions.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. But what seems like an obvious solution comes with deep-rooted problems that require much untangling.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Even though the companies tout precision agriculture and data broadly as a way to reduce inputs, it’s really hard to imagine a world in which manufacturers of a product are going to tell their customers to buy and use less of their products.”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

If you’re near a CAFO, being outside can be risky: Once, when her dad was harvesting the last of the corn, the CAFO across the road spread its manure on fields surrounding the Trom farm, and she says her dad became so dizzy he had to get off the combine to vomit. regardless of who is in power.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Yet these qualities are their superpowers, making these food systems resilient, nutritious, and far more secure than industrial agriculture. Industrial agricultures focus on growing these nine crops contributes significantly to deforestation and ecosystem degradation. Laird explains.

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The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. Across the globe, nearly one in eight people depend on wetlands for fishing, rice farming, hunting, and tourism.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here. The Peruvian state granted the community about 540 acres in 1986.

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