Food Tank

APRIL 7, 2025

Mexican scientists at the National Council of Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies (CONAHCYT) say that contamination of native varieties with genetically modified seeds threatens biodiversity, climate resilience, and food sovereignty. As a result, Mexico would no longer be able to feed its people uncontaminated corn.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

Drawing from decades of field research, he argues that the answer is in strategies that are based in colonial agricultural science. But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities.

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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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Maize Food Agroecology Seeding 145

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Her mothers days were filled with caring for children, hand-milling maize, and tending their small garden. Aracely Marroqun Coronado, 21 On the farm where Aracely grew up, near the town of Comitancillo in Guatemalas western highlands, the maize is so tall in July that it swallows her familys house whole.

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