How Urban Farming Is Revolutionizing Our Cities and Food System
Urban agriculture won’t resolve all food production and distribution problems, but it could take pressure off rural land while providing other advantages.
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Urban agriculture won’t resolve all food production and distribution problems, but it could take pressure off rural land while providing other advantages.
Strategists are following the money to schools, corporate cafeterias, and hospitals in hopes of rebuilding local economies and bringing healthy food access—literally in through the back door.
The Global Alliance for the Future of Food commissioned experts around the world to weigh in on a future that protects and improves resilient seed systems.
As Goodwill Ambassadors , the Roca brothers will use their expertise in the culinary world to enhance the link between waste reduction, sustainability and food security issues.
All over the world, small farmers are being forced off their land to make way for corporate agriculture- and it’s justified by the need to ‘feed the world’. But it’s the small farmers that are the most productive, and the more their land is grabbed, the more global hunger increases. We must give them their land back!
While no-tilling methods of agriculture are gaining popularity and producing good results, there are many circumstances where deep tilling in combination with adding essential compost and microbiology is needed to detoxify contamination of poor soils.
As intense monocropping production practices increasingly remove more life from the ground than they return, it sends that soil closer to fossilization. But a number of farmers don’t see such a downward plunge as written in stone.
Food Tank recently had the opportunity to speak with rancher, lawyer, and author Nicolette Hahn Niman, who will be speaking at the 1st annual Farm Tank Conference.
Innovative food systems such as agroecology can become the norm if we weave a web of legitimacy from science, politics, society and values.
Organic hotspots can help boost local economies and reduce poverty levels.