Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 5, 2024

In 2023, the current Conservative Government passed the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act, which created an entirely new and fictitious class of genetically modified organisms – the ‘precision bred organism’, or ‘PBO’. This sneaky, undemocratic attempt to force genetically modified organisms (GMOs) onto our plates – unlabelled – has been launched by our Government, working hand-in-hand with the biotech industry, research establishment and pro-GMO ‘think tanks’.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 25, 2024

Ep. 17. We're talking shop with Farm Futures Senior Editor Ben Potter, as he shares farmer perspectives on current carbon program details, as well as history of carbon credits.

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Agri-tech

JUNE 17, 2024

A decade-long collaborative study has discovered huge genetic potential that is untapped in modern wheat varieties. The international study which appears in Nature reveals that at least 60% of the genetic diversity found in a historic collection of wheat is unused providing an unprecedented opportunity to improve modern wheat and sustainably feed a growing global population.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 11, 2024

The federal government’s plan to raise the capital gains inclusion rate in less than two weeks will increase the tax bill on the sale of a typical Canadian grain farm by 30 per cent, based on research conducted by Grain Growers of Canada (GGC). Grain Growers has written a letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Read More The federal government’s plan to raise the capital gains inclusion rate in less than two weeks will increase the tax bill on the sale of a typical Canadian gra

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Food Politics

JUNE 7, 2024

At long last, Peter Byck’s Roots So Deep is available for viewing. Peter is at Arizona State. He’s done something quite remarkable, so much so that I wrote a blurb for his films. If we are going to do anything to prevent further climate change, soil degradation, and groundwater pollution, we are going to have to transform current agricultural practices to those that are more regenerative.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 2, 2024

Understanding the role of biodiversity in the climate, food, water, energy, transport and health nexus in Europe. Meta-analysis shows that a lot of things people do affect biodiversity negatively, yet biodiversity affects most things people want to do positively. Food Systems Interventions for Nutrition: Lessons from 6 Program Evaluations in Africa and South Asia.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 5, 2024

A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. In 1948, E.M. Emmert, a horticulturist at the University of Kentucky, was tinkering around with how to build a cheap greenhouse. He decided to use polyethylene sheets in lieu of the glass sides, bending the plastic film around a wooden frame.

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Western FarmPress

JUNE 27, 2024

Without pest control products it would take more land, more water, more greenhouse gas emissions and more energy.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 6, 2024

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced changes to his cabinet late Thursday, June 6, the final day of the spring session in the provincial legislature with MPPs headed home until October. While many of the senior cabinet positions were left unchanged, there are some significant changes for agriculture. Lisa Thompson, who has served as Minister of.

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Food Politics

JUNE 19, 2024

The FDA has issued its boringly titled Southwest Agricultural Region Environmental Microbiology Study (2019 – 2024). The report seems designed to be boring. Its subject, however, is anything but. Let me do some translating ( in Italics ).

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 18, 2024

Diversifying the UK Agrifood System: A Role for Neglected and Underutilised Crops. It’s really hard to pick potential NUS winners. So why even try? Support them all! Can markets for nature conservation be successful? An integrated assessment of a product label for biodiversity practices in Germany. Labelling agricultural products can support biodiversity conservation, but probably not on its own.

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USDA Blog

JUNE 4, 2024

This summer 14 students (PDF, 85.0 KB) from agricultural migrant and farmworker backgrounds will take part in paid 10-week internships with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.

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Berkeley Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

"We're reconstructing history here," William Carter said of his geography Ph.D. research and collaboration with UC Berkeley's Disabled Students' Program. The post With newly digitized slave ship logs, Berkeley Ph.D. student examines race, power — and literacy appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 10, 2024

A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. As a barista in San Francisco for almost a decade starting in 2007, Joseph Macrino hated all of the waste the coffee shop produced—the disposable cups, the lids, the sleeves. He’d give his regulars grief for not bringing in their own mugs.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 14, 2024

As Canadians, we pride ourselves on our clean water, living skies, the Rockies, maple syrup, playing hockey, and saying sorry. There are other things to be proud of too, like our democracy and our ability to grow food for the world’s population. It would seem, though, that when one or more of these points of. Read More As Canadians, we pride ourselves on our clean water, living skies, the Rockies, maple syrup, playing hockey, and saying sorry.

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Food Politics

JUNE 11, 2024

This seems to be a slow news week so I’m going to get caught up on research papers I think worth reading. I first heard about this study from this video, from Dr. Greger’s newsletter announcement (I subscribe). Here’s the study: Ornish D, et al. Effects of intensive lifestyle changes on the progression of mild cognitive impairment or early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease: a randomized, controlled clinical trial.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 25, 2024

Jeremy tackles food as medicine and superfoods in his latest newsletter. Do subscribe. The ultimate expression of food as medicine is the search for active ingredients. Why go to the bother of eating broccoli or Brussels sprouts if you can swallow a pill of glucosinolates and get all that cancer-fighting power directly? I’ve even seen arguments that beneficial phytochemicals be purified from wild plants and somehow incorporated into the batter for chicken nuggets.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Sam Rudman, one of the first-year farmers of Friends Farm in Lafayette, Colorado, says covering a field with fertilizer shortly before 60-miles-per-hour winds started up was definitely one of his many “rookie mistakes” as a new farmer. He clearly remembers the day in February 2023 when winds threatened to blow away hundreds of dollars in supplies and hours of hard work as a big wakeup call.

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Berkeley Blog

JUNE 28, 2024

"This case will be a Rorschach test for elected officials," one expert said. "Will they redouble their efforts to provide shelter and housing, or fall back on laws that punish people for being homeless?" The post Supreme Court has ‘greenlighted the criminalization of homelessness,’ Berkeley experts say appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

Five years ago, the American farmed-seaweed industry barely existed. Wild seaweeds had been harvested for centuries by Indigenous peoples on both coasts, for a range of uses including insulation, medication, and fertilizer. Later, seaweeds were then harvested from the wild for agricultural fertilizers and the cosmetics industry. As for kelp farms, though, there were only a smattering of them in Maine, selling products to restaurants or natural-foods stores.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 14, 2024

Winter wheat may be the fastest growing crop in Maritime Canada. Over the past five years, the cereal crop has seen significant growth with total acreage on Prince Edward Island alone climbing near 25,000 acres. On this episode of RealAgriculture Wheat School, host Bernard Tobin travels to the Island to find out what’s driving interest. Read More Winter wheat may be the fastest growing crop in Maritime Canada.

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Food Politics

JUNE 27, 2024

If you haven’t been worried about microplastics in your body, perhaps this study will get your attention. Here’s the abstract: Its alarming conclusion: The detection of MPs in penile tissue raises inquiries on the ramifications of environmental pollutants on sexual health. Our research adds a key dimension to the discussion on man-made pollutants, focusing on MPs in the male reproductive system.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 6, 2024

The latest version of the SPAM global crop area distribution model is out. You can play with it here. Some bullet points on the USDA’s National Plant Germplasm System outpost in Pullman. Yes, the above references Svalbard, as does this piece on Spanish tomatoes. Pity we can’t put olives in Svalbard, but there’s a another way to protect olive diversity.

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Food Tank

JUNE 18, 2024

School cafeterias are notorious for serving up chicken nuggets and pizza that resemble fast food more than nutrition, but millions of schoolchildren across the nation will soon have a better chance of eating healthy, sustainable meals. New nutrition standards for child nutrition programs just released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will help schools improve menus.

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Agri-tech

JUNE 7, 2024

Two-day, online course: 12-13 November 2024 The BBSRC funded Delivering Sustainable Wheat (DSW) Institute Strategic Programme spans nine UK research institutes and universities and aims to develop new wheat germplasm containing the next generation of key traits. The aim of the DSW In Practice course is provide an entry level introduction to wheat research, giving a taste of the work in DSW.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 3, 2024

A version of this article originally appeared in The Deep Dish, our members-only newsletter. Become a member today and get the next issue directly in your inbox. In April, representatives of more than 150 countries traveled to Canada to hammer out the details of an international, legally binding treaty to tackle the plastic crisis. It was the fourth of five negotiation sessions, with the process set to be completed later this year.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 27, 2024

Protein Industries Canada has announced that inaugural CEO, Bill Greuel, is leaving the organization that’s focused on developing Canada’s plant-based protein industry. Greuel, who has been with the organization since October 2018, has accepted the position of Deputy Minister of Agriculture with the Government of Saskatchewan. His last day with Protein Industries Canada will be.

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Food Politics

JUNE 17, 2024

To stay in good standing as Registered Dietitian-Nutritionists, members of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics must complete a certain number of continuing education credits. Here’s one way to get them (sent to me by a member who wishes to remain anonymous). Here’s what they need to learn to earn them: Comment Did participants learn about the cons of Splenda (and artificial sweeteners in general) as well as the pros?

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 14, 2024

Atlas Obscura: Jesus never ate bananas. Smithsonian: Hold my Lava Flow.

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Food Tank

JUNE 19, 2024

Food Tank is rounding up 20 podcasts that take listeners on a journey of food and agriculture systems around the world. These shows highlight the efforts of food producers, reflect on how eaters’ earliest memories in the kitchen shaped who they became today, and offer solutions for sustainable ocean management. Whether you’re looking for a true-crime story, an engaging interview with food policy champions, or trying to navigate the latest health and wellness fads, there’s a show for everyone. 1

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USDA Blog

JUNE 18, 2024

Four years ago, Jordan McMahon wasn’t sure if he would go to college. Today, he is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1890 National Scholar and published researcher. He recently graduated from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio and will be pursuing a master’s degree, eventual Ph.D., and a career in agriculture.

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Berkeley Blog

JUNE 18, 2024

The post U.S. News ranks Berkeley Engineering No. 3 grad program nationally appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 20, 2024

As cereal crops race to the finish line across Ontario, many growers are weighing the option of planting soybeans after a first harvest, which is already underway in some winter barley fields in southwestern portions of the province. Embro, Ont., farmer Ian Matheson and his family have been double cropping soybeans for two decades. He. Read More As cereal crops race to the finish line across Ontario, many growers are weighing the option of planting soybeans after a first harvest, which is alread

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Food Politics

JUNE 13, 2024

The World Food Programme announced the new 2024 report. I last wrote about this project in 2021. Progress? Not this year. As Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres says in his introduction, “Humanity can and must do better.” Yes, but how? Advocate! Protest! Insist! VOTE! The post Interesting study of the week III. Global Food Crises, 2024 appeared first on Food Politics by Marion Nestle.

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NASDA

JUNE 20, 2024

Letter Dear Chairs Stabenow and Thompson and Ranking Members Boozman and Scott: On behalf of the diverse undersigned organizations, representing pesticide manufacturers, formulators, distributors, and environmental non-governmental organizations, we are writing to express our support for the continuation of the role of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Interagency Work Group (IWG).

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture offers a multitude of economic and environmental benefits to New York City that are overlooked. When properly resourced, it can be utilized as a framework to achieve food justice and create a more sustainable food system rooted in equity, community power, and climate resiliency. Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture.

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USDA Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Springfield Community Gardens (SCG) in Springfield, Missouri has been successfully operating and growing since 2010 with the assistance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2501 Program.

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