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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Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 94

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020.

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

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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Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

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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Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure 90

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.

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Seeding Food Production Technology 143

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. Plants have recent memories that they pass on to their seeds. They can hear sounds.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

food system since the COVID-19 quarantine, which created a rush on vegetable seeds and baby chicks. Such shocks to the food system are evidence of some of the inherent weaknesses of an industrialized and highly concentrated agriculture sector. We know that is partially why we keep getting these seasonal outbreaks.

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Poultry Pasture Food Farming 142

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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Food Agroecology Agriculture Agriculture 110

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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Farming Farming Food Agriculture 189

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.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

2202) YELLOW FLAG Adds “precision agriculture” to the Conservation Title and creates practices in EQIP. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503). GREEN FLAG Significantly enhances support for 1890s Land Grant Institutions. 7111, 7114, 7208).

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Food Farming Farming Farmland 40

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

At least 28 species were new to science. ” As Spoor pointed out, most deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon today comes at the hands of small-scale farmers , and he wanted to convince me that industrial agriculture, which had deepened climate impacts elsewhere, could achieve the opposite here.

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