Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Our research project, “Reuniting the Three Sisters,” explores what it means to be a responsible caretaker of the land from the perspective of peoples who have been balancing agricultural production with sustainability for hundreds of years. The monocropping industrial agricultural systems that produce much of the U.S.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“By regenerating soil health, sequestering carbon, and restoring biodiversity, sustainable ranching practices have the power to reverse the damage caused by decades of industrial agriculture.” This approach promotes resilience, reduces reliance on centralized production methods, and empowers smaller-scale farmers.

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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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Modern Farmer

APRIL 24, 2024

As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factory farming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. If there wasn’t such a focus on yield and production in the food system, fewer animals would be crammed into tight spaces and fed poor diets, says Utesch.

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Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

They also have ecological benefits because they offer a market outlet for small-scale producers not involved in large-scale industrial agriculture. They can ask questions, learn where the produce came from, and determine what inputs were used in the production process.

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The Equation

MAY 1, 2024

Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry producer in the United States, churns out billions of animal products each year. In addition to countless ribeye steaks and chicken nuggets, Tyson also produces contaminated wastewater—over 18.5 billion gallons in 2022 alone.

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Food Tank

MARCH 24, 2025

Fast-growing broiler chickens are bred to gain weight rapidly, prioritizing meat production over health, Julia Johnson, Head of Food Business in the United States at Compassion in World Farmingthe nonprofit organizers of the BCCtells Food Tank.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA clearly delineates the need to focus on climate adaptation and mitigation strategies as well as sustainable nutrition science , an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of food production, environment and climate, and human health. And it’s about time.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In reality, destructive food production practices are not a viable way forward for anyone, panelists said. Looking at food production at restaurants and farms through a food justice lens, caring about the future of food means caring about people. Systems-level thinking is important, panelists said, but it’s not enough.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Each one is a potential treasure trove for companies seeking new plant-based products. Each plant sample is a potential treasure trove for companies seeking new plant-based products. In other words, all possible uses of the plant, including efforts to obtain patent protection for any product developed from it, must be registered.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. A global shift in food systems, including more industrialized agriculture practices and increased use of agrichemicals, is an additional contributor to the land squeeze.

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The Equation

APRIL 5, 2023

Already sky-high food insecurity rates in farmworker communities will likely grow even higher as climate change worsens, threatening food production and earnings. Big corporations and industrial agriculture companies should pay farmworkers fair wages and provide labor protections.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

About a third of the world’s soils are currently degraded, the FAO says , and poor land management practices and hyper-industrialized agriculture is pushing that number higher. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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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. Carlisle says race is implicated in current U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Today, the four counties sitting in the lake bed account for more than $25 billion in food and crop production, with Tulare County ranking number one in the nation for milk and oranges. Neighboring Fresno and Kern Counties top the list for almonds , while Kings County rules the state in cotton production.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. By incentivizing manure production, biogas encourages mega-dairies to grow in size.

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

The ongoing megadrought that has afflicted California since 2000 has caused profound challenges for people, agriculture, and ecosystems throughout the state. The snowmelt going into reservoirs could even help with hydropower production as California transitions towards a more sustainable energy future.

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Daily Yonder

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The dairy industry is no stranger to this: Between 2002 and 2019 the number of licensed dairy herds in the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

This frequency with which polluting industries are built in these communities is evidence of ongoing environmental injustice. Foster Farms is a poultry company that sells chicken and chicken products in chain grocery stores across the country. By incentivizing manure production, biogas encourages mega-dairies to grow in size.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

First, agriculture certainly matters very much to anyone who buys food, however we live in an increasingly urbanized world where the population is geographically and culturally distanced from rural food production sites. Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014. these days.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 9, 2025

Lundberg Family Farms is scaling production of their regenerative organic products to improve soil health, sequester carbon, and protect wildlife. grown rice brand to launch Regenerative Organic Certified products. The company was the first U.S. By 2027, they aim to transition all organic rice to regenerative organic.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Through her eyes, Food and Country reveals not only the humanity behind our food system, but also the urgent need to reassess the nation’s values around food production. Rich Appetites Discover the impact of industrial agriculture on biodiversity, hunger, and small-scale farmers in Africa in this five-part short film series.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

He denied that meat is making climate change worse, and presented the alternatives to be banned as a plot against the meat industry. One of the things that these folks want to do, is they want to eliminate meat production in the United States,” DeSantis said at his press briefing. The budding industry has raised $3.1

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture. The dairy industry is no stranger to this: Between 2002 and 2019 the number of licensed dairy herds in the U.S. A wellhead in Boardman, Oregon.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For the most part, they’re enjoyable and productive neighbors. Industrial agriculture is killing authentic farming and land stewardship as much as food processors and bureaucrats. They don’t compete; they share. They’re interested in anything that makes life more self-reliant and independent from nefarious agendas.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the UK, 60% of adults are either overweight or obese, a figure expected to rise to 80% by 2060, with huge costs to society in terms of lost workforce productivity, shortened lives and NHS treatments. The ‘Junk Food Cycle’ is one of Dimbleby’s main concerns. There will be more space for wild landscapes, as well as nature-rich upland farms.

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Sustainable Harvest International

APRIL 22, 2024

Our first sustainable tip is the reason behind our work: Tip #1: Support regenerative agriculture Conventional, or industrial, agriculture heavily relies on chemicals to protect crops from weeds, specific insect species, and diseases. You can also look up recipes for DIY (Do It Yourself) hygiene and cleaning products.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

(Photo: Shutterstock) Although China, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines still account for more than 95 percent of global production, farms in North America – particularly British Columbia, Alaska, and Maine – are cropping up to meet demand.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Today, the aquifer supports 20% of the nation’s wheat, corn, cotton and cattle production and represents 30% of all water used for irrigation in the United States. Shannon said the city, industry and agricultural producers must work together. “We We know farmers are going to have to produce ag products.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

million in 1920 to just over 2 million in 2020), centralizing power and production in the hands of a few, at the expense of the small local farmer. This in turn has led to increases in climate-warming emissions from the agricultural sector.

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

It was the annual field day at The Mill , a popular Mid-Atlantic retailer of agricultural products including seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides. Back at the barn, companies that sell their products at The Mill had set up folding tables to talk to farmers and hand out swag. First, the farmers embarked on a wagon tour. they yelled.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by Theresa McCulla Theresa McCullas Insatiable City covers 200 years of New Orleans history to show linkages between production and reception of race, power, social status, and labor in a city famous for its food culture. Editors Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle T. King, and Jakob A.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The environmental impacts of certain types of livestock production and other industrial agriculture are well-known. Those of us who have the resources to do so need to make food choices that align with regenerative values, panelists said during a great discussion at the Food4Climate Pavilion.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

It required that these funds be used for practices that “improve soil carbon, reduce nitrogen losses, or reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions associated with agricultural production.” TITLE VII: Research RED FLAG Prioritizes precision agriculture over critical agroecological research.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

of US gross domestic product (GDP) and employing more than 22 million people. Tracing Big Ag control from seed to supermarket We can trace corporate power through every stage of food production and distribution, identifying some of the largest and most problematic corporate actors—think of them as the Monsantos of today—along the way.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

A new report by Friends of the Earth US and Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) backs up that sentiment. The study suggests that methane digesters create incentives for the growth of industrial agriculture, further entrenching food systems that harm both people and the environment.

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