Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Today, this model of industrial agriculture is no longer fit for purpose. And it reduces the climate and environmental footprint of growing, processing, and transporting industrially farmed animal food. Moreover, they contribute to forest destruction, the displacement of communities, water pollution and soil degradation.

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Industrial Agriculture Agroecology Food Agriculture 144

Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions. By working with producers, retailers, consumers, and public procurement, the town has succeeded in reducing meat and ultra-processed foods and increasing organic, seasonal, and local food consumption.

Food 140

Food Mechanics Processing Production 140

Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrial agriculture. For many years, Europeans and Americans took whatever they found in these and other biodiverse places without asking, or paying, anyone.

Seeding 143

Seeding Food Production Technology 143

Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. We run into instances where producers signed up, the process takes too long sometimes and they give up,” he said.

Cattle 113

Cattle Family Farming Farming Farming 113

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Kiersten Stead, DCVC BIO Kiersten Stead, Managing Partner, DCVC BIO: “The supervillain is misleading, unhelpful, marketing of food as “natural”, “non-GMO”, “clean”, or suggesting “processed foods are bad” , higher GHG emitting farming methods-“organic” “biodynamic”. Regulatory approvals are lengthy processes. Crops take time to grow.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla.

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

Civil Eats

MARCH 31, 2025

First, during the process, farm groups in New York filed a lawsuit challenging the right of guestworkers to unionize. Compared to other industries, agriculture had one of the lowest rates of all, at 1.4 Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that about half of farmworkers lack legal authorization to work in the U.S,

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Orchard Farming Farming Processing 139