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. We plant everything deepfor instance, the corn goes 18 inches deep, depending on where the seeds will find moisture.”

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Seeding Farming Farming Crop 140

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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Crop Maize Food Grain 75

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Shout out for the Access Agriculture farmer-to-farmer educational video platform from the Seed System Newsletter. 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. Really no end to them. I bet you do.

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Maize Livestock Food Crop 219

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.

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Seeding Cultivation Rural Development Food 111

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. Traditionally, Hopi women are the seed keepers, and the art of dry farming starts with the right seeds.

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Seeding Crop Farming Farming 79

Food Tank

JANUARY 27, 2025

But he believes that there is a new way forward, advocating for a transformation that supports agroecology, rural communities, and networks of smaller cities. Readers will learn about the programs supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, field trials of hybrid Maize in Kenya, and the worlds largest biotechnology companies.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology 133

Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. They know maize is different.” He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. He was right.

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Maize Food Agroecology Seeding 145