The Equation

MAY 15, 2023

Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. It was a stark contrast to the Swiss countryside, where agriculture was practiced in a way that kept the soil healthy, and the land and air alive with animal, plant, and insect life.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For too long, major industrial groups have been dominant, and have pushed a false narrative that harmful chemical inputs and exploitative labor practices and animal treatment protocols are necessarily to feed the world. The science tells us that agroecology is what we need to create farms that are resilient to climate shocks.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She mixes Indigenous traditional knowledge with modern science in a way that feels practical yet fun.” Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment. Black Elk’s efforts go beyond education. Our meat is laced with all kinds of hormones and antibiotics.

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The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. Wetlands in the United States are now even more vulnerable after the Supreme Courts 2023 decision in Sackett v.

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The Equation

JUNE 20, 2023

JEANNIE ECONOMOS: We attended a meeting of this Science Advisory Committee of the EPA on chemicals and there were about 50 scientists in that meeting. They had a hearing in which people, such as an organization like ours, could address the Science Advisory Committee about some of our concerns.

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The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

We can do this in part by strongly funding science, equity, and climate-focused federal research, as well as supporting government programs to protect land conservation and soil health. As the effects of climate change become clearer every year, it’s essential that we build a food and farm system that is resilient enough to withstand them.

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The Equation

APRIL 3, 2023

is the single most-asked question I hear as someone working daily with water science, advocacy, and policy in California. The ongoing megadrought that has afflicted California since 2000 has caused profound challenges for people, agriculture, and ecosystems throughout the state. “Is California still in a drought?”

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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can join in this effort by asking your members of Congress to support the Justice for Black Farmers Act and to defend our food and farm system—and the bill that governs it—from attack by members of Congress who choose to represent massive industrial agriculture corporations rather than the farmers and farmworkers who make up their districts.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil. Felipe and the current SEEN Team are starting to achieve the dream that many of us share.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We are all more from science,” she says in her German-accented English. The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. At home, they ran in local punk circles, and a trace of anti-establishment nonconformity has colored their work in agriculture. Something potentially very big.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Instead of following a single, linear thread (reductionist approach), the science of sustainable agriculture acknowledges and attempts to illuminate the wholistic truth that the thread is part of a fabric, a braid, a web where everything is connected to everything else.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

The last 10 years have also shown that, despite being a 15,000 year-old industry, agriculture is still vulnerable to fads and fashion. If you can’t afford to exit, everyone loses – the founders, the investors, and the incredible science and engineering under development. The heroes are CSOs and CTOs.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Some of these stories are familiar now, but Easter finds the details that make them come alive and unpacks the science with the panache of a storyteller. Culinary history, science, and ingredient notes enrich the reading, but the real joy of this book rests in the cooking.

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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. 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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Food Politics

MARCH 19, 2024

Science Magazine has this editorial headline: Reverse EU’s growing greenlash ** After several weeks of violent protests, European farmers have achieved a tactical triumph that does not bode well for the future of environmental policies. Let’s stop right here at “farmers.” This is not the right word.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

Twenty-five years ago, I started in the public health nutrition program at Teachers College, with a BS degree in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture. And damn it, she was right. I still hope to see it someday. Joan Dye Gussow with Urvashi Rangan.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

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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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020. Among the 66 peer-reviewed articles cited by Mexico is a 2021 paper by Mexico’s Institute of Sciences that found Bt toxins trigger an immune response in humans “as potent as that elicited by cholera toxin.”

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Corporations across the food system increasingly have the power, by virtue of their size, market domination, political connections, and deep pockets, to set prices, meddle with science, evade regulation, and write the rules to benefit themselves. If anything in our lives is essential, it’s food and the means of producing it. The average U.S.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

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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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

“Florida’s ban and soon Pennsylvania’s ban of cultured meat clearly demonstrates the prevailing ignorance of science among consumers at large and policy makers (often backed by deep-pocket science doubters),” wrote Kantha Shelke, founder of a food science firm called Corvus Blue, LLC and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, in an email.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

The book details her journey to connect head (Western science) with heart (Indigenous worldview)—the latter of which she says is the “missing puzzle piece” in our efforts to re-establish planetary health amid an ongoing climate crisis.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

What we do know is that the virus is now endemic in some wild birds, like wild ducks that move through our country, says Carol Cardona, a professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences at University of Minnesota. We know that is partially why we keep getting these seasonal outbreaks.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

in his book Decolonizing African Agriculture. He finds the culprit to be colonial models of agriculture science, and argues for a place-based agroecological approach. Over the years, there have been many attempts to reform farming and food policy in sub-Saharan Africa, but many have not succeeded.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. When I coauthored a 2018 peer-reviewed study in Science , for instance, I predicted where a particularly hazardous pesticide called chlorpyrifos could pollute waterways that manatees use to migrate in Florida.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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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. Who wins when wetlands lose protections?

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Representative Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) led the introduction of the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act , which is supported by industrial agriculture groups like the National Pork Producers Council and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This approach negates recent progress made in 2021 to update the TFP, bringing a science-based and realistic approach to calculating SNAP benefits—and also risks regressing to outdated dietary standards that fail to support the well-being of American families. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503). 7111, 7114, 7208).

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The Equation

MARCH 13, 2025

Instead, by catering to billionaires and corporate interests, decimating federal agencies, relentlessly denying and attacking science, and refusing to learn lessons from the last pandemic, they are threatening to make this and many other problems much, much worse. Kennedy, Jr. , to make good public health decisions.

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