Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. Rice farmers are beginning to move from intensive rice farming – which involves three harvests each year with insecticides and fertilizers—to one organic rice season during wet periods and one shrimp season during times of salt water intrusion.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Its scientific submission to the USMCA secretariat cites 74 human and animal studies describing the mechanisms by which the weed killer causes, for example, genetic damage to hematopoietic stem cells in human bone marrow, which can lead to blood cancers like non-Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 31, 2025

Most of the orchard workers were Jamaicans who are granted entry to the country through the governments H-2A visa program for just a few months each year during harvest season. Photo credit: Harvey Richards) Over the last several decades, their numbers have dwindled, alongside a much larger decline in unionization across all industries.

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