Food Tank

APRIL 7, 2025

Mesoamerican peoples first domesticated corn in what is now Mexico some 9,000 years ago.Today, Mexico represents the most important center of diversity of the species, according to Sarah Hearn, Chief Science and Innovation Officer at TheInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). Without corn there is no country.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

It has wiped out most of last year’s rain-fed crops, particularly the now staple crop, maize. With up to 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s population surviving on rural economic activitiesmostly rain-fed crop farmingrecurring droughts are devastating to the country. We lost our entire maize crop.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

This book says that be just the ticket for rural revitalisation. They would help with malnutrition where maize biofortification hasn’t worked so well, for example. Maize needs to be decolonized , not biofortified. You could do participatory plant breeding on them, couldn’t you.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. This story originally appeared on Reasons to Be Chee rful , and is reprinted here with permission.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They know maize is different.” Since the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Moreno movement in 2018, there has been a sea change in government policy toward rural Mexico. He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. Everyone here eats tacos. He was right. The next day the judge upheld the precautionary injunction.

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Food Tank

MARCH 20, 2024

The organization employs young agriculturists, rural development professionals, and social workers whose knowledge and experiences they feel are key in addressing social problems across the region. Through ongoing engagement with community members, NAS began a seed banking initiative to help them work toward food sovereignty. “Our

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows of corn you see in much of rural North America. Bundled in groups of five or six, his corn stalks shoot out of the sandy desert in bunches, resembling bushels rather than tightly spaced rows.

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