Agricultural Biodiversity

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Do you want to describe and analyze seed systems? Let the Norwegian University of Life Sciences show you how. Do you think there should be a, well, systemic approach to the food system? So does the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Hope they include seed systems. And genebanks.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We need to rethink our food systems and transition to diversified agroecological systems that can ensure we address this twin challenge, and to provide nutritious diets to a growing population without destroying the planet. However, the country needs to scale-up agroecology and help farmers to make the transition.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A sustainable blue cheese industry needs more microbial diversity. The Open Source Seed Initiative gets written up in The Guardian. Looks like we need something similar for cheese microbes. The Guardian then follows up with mung bean breeding and fart jokes.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Not only are these markets a good fit for smallholder farmers who practice agroecology , but they are also more equitable and accessible for women and youth.

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Agroecology Marketing Food Finance 89

Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Climate Change Conference, Million Belay, General Coordinator for Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa discussed the power of food sovereignty and agroecology. Key to food sovereignty is agroecology, an approach to agriculture that, Belay explains , is a practice, a science, and a social movement.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In 2023, 25 philanthropies announced a collaboration to leverage investments, calling for a tenfold increase in funding to support agroecological and regenerative food systems. On agroecology, for instance, the CFS had produced policy recommendations on agroecology and other innovative approaches.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. I may not talk to them, but I do listen, or, rather, observe them.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. Jean-Baptiste has been working with smallholder farmers across the country to promote agroecology as a solution to hunger and poverty for four decades. Hunger in Haiti is not an accident.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Philanthropy can help tilt the incentives needed to usher in a regenerative and agroecological transition that centers farmers and landscape stewards and recognizes a shared set of principles. It is possible to forge a more sustainable path. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Agriculture Agriculture Agroecology Finance 126

Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America. A farm in La Pedregosa, Panama after transitioning to agroecology practices with SHI.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Through approaches grounded in food sovereignty, agroecology, Black liberation, and grassroots feminisms, both are catalyzing much-needed transformation in food systems – and broader systems – entrenched in exploitation and oppression.”

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

. “A transformation is needed—with social protection schemes that guarantee the right to food for the world’s poorest, debt cancellation, and investment in diverse, resilient agroecological food production.”

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This also came in a e-mail, this time a press release from Chocolate Scorecard , a group that rates chocolate companies on practices related to traceability, wages, child labor, deforestation, agroecology, etc. Its key messages: Sustainability claims of chocolate companies cannot necessarily be trusted.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Understanding farmer knowledge and site factors in relation to soil-borne pests and pathogens to support agroecological intensification of smallholder bean production systems. Doesn’t cover banana bunchy top but I’m sure the main conclusion that better modelling and monitoring are needed applies. Using satellites, no doubt.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The need for greater access to land, so that younger generations can have a role in equitable and accessible food production – most particularly in agroecological food production – is critical and demands that we find new pathways beyond ownership to invite their participation.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. Agroecology is an integrated approach that combines ecological and social principles for sustainable agriculture and food systems.

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Organic Farming Research

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Policy Director, HEAL Food Alliance Nichelle Harriot has over 15 years of federal policy experience working on a range of issues from pesticide regulation to building support for sustainable, organic, and agroecological farming systems and research.

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Organic Farming Research

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It highlights the importance of long-term agroecological research in understanding how different farming practices can build resilience against climate change. This article discusses the significant impact of climate change on agriculture, particularly the vulnerability of organic farming systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

But where Bergen Community College aims to foster new farmers in a suburban-urban environment through vertical farms and hydroponics, Walla Walla’s program will expand upon an existing agroecology curriculum geared toward its rural students, many of whom may be seeking to bring their education back to family farms or other local agriculture.

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

Partnering with nearly 1,000 farming families in Honduras, SHI has helped restore over 8,000 acres of land by promoting agroecological practices, including the planting of over 2.2 They’ll be able to see agroecology and all its bounteous rewards in practice. million trees. 45% of these graduates are youth.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As countries negotiate and announce their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or environmental action plans, they must meaningfully uplift agroecological and regenerative approaches, not just pay lip service. We need to integrate soil health into international negotiations like the ones being discussed here at COP29.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I feature dry farming in a chapter of my textbook of Agroecology that I used in my teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz, for over 30 years. Our farm is our personal example of how to do agroecology.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. These are costs that are very limited or non-existent on small-scale, organic agroecology farms. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs. Among the 12.6

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Better yet, why do some researchers, farmers and activists prefer the term “urban agroecology?” From 2017 to 2019, my research team helped to define and elevate “urban agroecology” in the US as a better way of acknowledging the multifunctional benefits of urban green spaces. amount of food produced per unit of GHG emission).

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology. The report highlights four drivers contributing to land consolidation globally. Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired.

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ATTRA

JUNE 1, 2024

Farmers, practitioners, and seed stewards of all kinds are valued as co-creators of this gathering by and for agroecological seed communities. You don’t need to be a researcher or academic to submit a proposal for the conference. The deadline to submit a proposal is July 5, 2024. Submissions can be made in English or Spanish.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Young Changemakers: Scaling Agroecology Using Video in Africa and India by Paul Van Mele, Savitri Mohapatra, Laura Tabet, and Blessings Fao Young Changemakers is a collection of stories and insights from 42 young people across the continent of Africa and India who created farmer-to-farmer learning videos to promote agroecology in their respective (..)

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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

” Read the full article here: [link] The Small Farm Tech Hub at CAFF looks to support an emergent socio-technical ecosystem orientated around agroecology, strengthening local and regional economies, and contributing to a growing innovation commons. The post Civil Eats Op-ed: Want an Agtech Revolution?

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Caff

AUGUST 26, 2024

Community Alliance with Family Farmers, in partnership with the Farm Service Agency, Veggielution, Agroecology Commons, the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Food Access LA, are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Growing Urban Agriculture microgrants for the Spring of 2024.

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ATTRA

JULY 15, 2023

Alexis Racelis is an associate professor of agroecology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a member of NCAT’s Board of Directors. His work helping farmers grow food with less water and under more extreme heat conditions is featured in an article in The Texas Tribune.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The report recommends reducing food waste, improving production, adopting agroecological production systems, and country- and crop-specific studies to inform policy. The study also indicates that food policy should support dietary diversity, to counteract over-reliance on just three cereal grains.

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Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Agricultural systems that use Degenerative Practices and inputs that damage the environment, soil, health, genes, and communities and involve animal cruelty are not regenerative. ” — Regeneration International SHI farmers adopt regenerative principles through agroforestry, agroecology, and the avoidance of chemicals.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. Agriculture at its best can do this.”

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