Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

BBC explores the problems of soil loss, malnutrition, and the climate crisis, as well as innovative solutions evolving in the realms of farming and technology Watch and delve into the related articles here. Rich Appetites examines how billionaire philanthropic promote chemical-intensive agriculture model globally.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Problem With Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food by Julie Guthman A critique of the technological fixes that Silicon Valley offers to the food crisis, The Problem With Solutions urges the reader to think critically and contextually about the issues the food system faces.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link] Position Summary Seeking a bilingual communications professional with a passion for farms, a curiosity for technology, and a commitment to a more equitable future for the San Joaquin Valley. F3 entails multiple partners and industry reps.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 13, 2024

(Photo credit: David Thoreson) Chris Jones, a retired University of Iowa research engineer and the author of The Swine Republic , explains that because of this difference in the soil, the region has never been well suited for large-scale industrial agriculture. So, when we try to farm at these very large scales.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This was potentially world-altering technology. It’s an all-too-familiar story for mission-driven agritech startups, one that illuminates the bargains even the most idealistic of entrepreneurs must strike to survive in a savage industry. Rene Ebersole , June 12, 2018 5 Can rock dust be a climate fix for agriculture?

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Modern Farmer

JULY 10, 2023

Although California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) aims to recharge them by regulating draws, the dried-up lake bed has long been collapsing under the massive weight of industrialized agriculture—to the tune of a couple of inches per month.

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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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ATTRA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Few thinkers describe this more convincingly than Wendell Berry when he evinces the many unintended disasters of industrial agriculture, which has, for its part, tended to trivialize such disasters as unconnected, inconsequential, or unavoidable collateral damage. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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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. “What are the practices, what are the technologies, that are able to bring those adaptations to the farmers? “There’s no alternative but to take that into account. It’s more the ‘How?’”

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 15, 2024

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. These researchers, communities and advocates are working hard to resist the greenwashing of this technology—and sometimes they succeed.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lynn Fantom From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture By Stephanie Anderson The “bigger and cheaper” mentality of industrial agriculture incurs great environmental and social costs. In the end, From the Ground Up paints a hopeful picture of how agricultural practices could evolve for the better.

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Daily Yonder

JUNE 28, 2024

Those large-scale structural issues have certainly not fundamentally changed since 2014. As for the politics of crop insurance, basically the policies have become increasingly complicated and increasingly tailored to a variety of different farmers’ needs, including those of small-scale and specialty crop growers.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

She was a master at connecting the dots, and the fact that most of us understand food and agriculture as a single system, linking policy, soil, nutrition, public health, and technology, owes in large part to the work Joan did. She was a happy and inspiring warrior against the forces of industrial agriculture.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

We’ve seen this in the digital technology sector. In 2023, the Biden administration formed an interagency working group to examine consolidation in the seed industry, but that’s a long way from action to curb the seed giants’ control of this most basic of resources.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

It required only that technology developers provide the FDA with minimal data showing that the nutritional composition of the GM crops is “substantially equivalent” to the non-engineered version, and hence safe. “The The Mexican decree is not the only regional brushfire the US government and biotech industry are eager to extinguish.

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Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

There, plants haven’t had their survival characteristics bred out of them in favor of qualities like super-charged yields and other features of industrial agriculture. Once identified, that sequence delivering a specific characteristic can be synthesized with a technology known as Digital Sequence Information, or DSI.

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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. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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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. Growing up i n Michigan, the rapid consolidation of dairy farms due to industrialized agriculture led her family to the very difficult decision to sell their dairy.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

This is about allowing a technology to be developed and potentially marketed.” These bans hinder innovation rather than seek protocols for vetting new technologies in food science, she added. The argument that cultivated meat threatens agriculture is paradoxical, says Madre Brava’s Muzi, whose parents are Argentinian ranchers.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

But Mars believes that a regenerative paradigm shift can heal much more than the soil, transforming all parts of an industrial agricultural system that both contributes to and risks disruption from the climate crisis. Obviously, they’re alive—but how alive, exactly?

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Civil Eats

JULY 9, 2024

Even though the companies tout precision agriculture and data broadly as a way to reduce inputs, it’s really hard to imagine a world in which manufacturers of a product are going to tell their customers to buy and use less of their products.” That’s a good thing. We want that,” he said. “I

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2025

Peter Schollierss A History of Bread explores what this staple food can tell us about food policy, consumption patterns, and technology. Three hundred years ago, Europeans spent a third of their total household expenditure on bread, but today, thats less than 1 percent. By asking a simple questionwhy?Peter Moseley asks a simple questionwhy?

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The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The court sided with the community and ordered the city to use an analytically sound model developed by Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Jacob Abernethy of the Georgia Institute of Technology to efficiently locate and replace the pipes. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

But for decades, the state’s regulation of water benefited its largest user and its largest industry: agriculture. Farmers, he said, should embrace new technologies such as more efficient irrigation systems and drought-resistant crops.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The House Farm Bill reauthorizes several longstanding, small, but impactful rural development programs, such as the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program, Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas, Rural Business Development Grants, and Rural Cooperative Development Grants. 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411). 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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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. Black farmers tried to hold together by forming cooperatives.

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