Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

No longer did she speak about saving the environment or using fewer chemicals: Now, she said, “We want to start a revolution in the agri-supply chain.” Plantix began its journey as an idea in the heads of people who recognized the problems with industrialized agriculture and explored ambitious ways of solving them.

Pesticide 86

Pesticide Crop Agriculture Agriculture 86

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. Cristina Rohr, Managing Director, S2G VENTURES: “One of the most promising opportunities is the broader integration of AI into commercialized agricultural technologies and across the food supply chain.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Food Tank

JULY 30, 2024

It finds that territorial markets can help build food security and resilience across the globe in a system corrupted by corporate-controlled supply chains. Territorial markets offer an alternative to corporate-controlled supply chains and an avenue to a resilient global food system, the report states.

Marketing 134

Marketing Food Supply Chain Ecology 134

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Throughout, carbon-footprint bar charts show the multiple emission sources for each food, conveying the impact of an entire supply chain at a glance. Furthermore, she examines the roots of regenerative agriculture and the many contributions made by members of marginalized groups. The book goes beyond the problems, too.

Food 135

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 135

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 31, 2023

Foroohar argues, “…you’ve got this system, where these globalised, very highly ‘efficient’ supply chains are enriching Wall Street but starving Main Street and driving small farmers out of business.” The film digs deep into what is so wrong about globalisation which is doing almost everyone no help at all.

Food 52

Food Farming Farming Ranching 52

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers. Does any of that sound familiar?

Farmland 142

Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

—Grey Moran A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World By Jennifer Grayson The fragility of our food system became more prominent than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, when supply chains struggled to stay tethered due to global trade disruptions.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145

Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes.

Farming 189

Farming Farming Food Agriculture 189

Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 includes the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program, yet, without defined priorities or target recipients, the program may inevitably lend itself to financing large-scale operations rather than serve as a new capital product for small, scaling, or new local operations (Sec.

Food 40

Food Farming Farming Farmland 40

Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And what we’ve tried to do over the past two and a half years is reach out to 2,500 national and local organizations working in various aspects of food, all across the supply chain: farmers, workers, environmental justice advocates, health advocates, doctors, and other animal-centered organizations. How did it get to this point?

Farming 144

Farming Farming Food Animal Agriculture 144

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Many landlords evicted their tenant farmers and sharecroppers as they invested in new machinery, and policymakers continued to support the emergence of industrialized agriculture.

Food 100

Food Plantation Farming Farming 100