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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

He’s the recipient of the World Food Prize and a Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University. 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.

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Rural Drinking Water Has a Nitrate Problem

Modern Farmer

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. She later became the executive director of the nonprofit Friends of Toppenish Creek , which advocates for improved oversight of industrial agriculture.

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Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

Modern Farmer

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. asks Kori Czuy, one of the instructors at Soil Camp and the manager of Indigenous science connections at the TELUS Spark Science Centre in Calgary.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We Bill Hohenstein, director of the USDA’s Office of Energy and Environmental Policy, acknowledges that the science behind climate-smart agriculture remains a work in progress. But he says it’s mature enough to take action.

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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

She also includes a section of “wow-worthy meals” that she says are “hearty enough for omnivores,” stacked with recipes like velvety white-bean and tomato stew and crispy smashed potatoes, plus sauces like avocado crema and a throwback ranch dressing.

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Inside Florida’s Ban on Lab-Grown Meat

Modern Farmer

Here in Wauchula, a small farming town in Central Florida, cattle ranching is king. We’re here today to sign the bill that continues our commitment to having a vibrant agriculture industry,” DeSantis announced. These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added.

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In Brazil, a Powerful Law Protects Biodiversity and Blocks Corporate Piracy

Civil Eats

Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S. Numerous U.S.

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