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January 14, 2021
Regenerative Agriculture 101: The Basics
Regenerative agriculture focuses on healthy soil, which is vital to growing healthy crops, maintaining healthy farms, and cultivating food in a way that isn’t just less harmful but actually benefits the environment.Posted by Natalia Tertusio -
January 12, 2021
Fair Trade Certification: Strengthening the Community
Fair trade certifications and practices change the way trade works through better prices, decent working conditions, and a fairer deal for farmers and workers in developing countries.Posted by Amy Schmidt -
December 28, 2020
The Faces Behind the Food: Migration & Agriculture
To move, to follow the food, to settle and then resettle are acts of human survival. The process of movement is woven into the collective and historical experience of being human.Posted by Amy Schmidt -
December 17, 2020
Farmers in India Protest New Reforms
Indian agricultural workers are protesting reforms that will deregulate agricultural markets. They believe that these reforms will devastate crop prices and reduce their earnings, while giving more power to large corporations.Posted by Amy Schmidt -
November 27, 2020
The Faces Behind the Food: Why Do Food Costs Vary Around the World?
In a new stories series, The Faces Behind the Food, we will explore the food costs around the world. Food costs are an important indicator of the balance between agricultural production and market demand around the world.Posted by Amy Schmidt -
November 16, 2020
Organic Almonds: The Wild, Abundant Food of Sicily
In Sicily, the almonds appear wild, as if planted randomly and left in unkempt farms without irrigation or care. It seems the trees only receive attention for an occasional pruning and the yearly harvest. The almonds aren’t pushed to their productive limit, and in many cases, the trees simply aren’t harvested.Posted by Keith Agoada -
November 13, 2020
Organic Sicilian Almonds by Expergreen
Expergreen produces dry farmed organic almonds in Sicily, Italy, a region where they naturally thrive, bees are happy, and farmers make a decent living.Posted by Keith Agoada -
November 6, 2020
Kiss the Ground: Movie Review by an Industry Specialist
Kiss the Ground is narrated by Woody Harrelson and features a collection of cultural influencers, celebrities, scientists, and entrepreneurs all sharing about the importance of soil and the solution for the future known as regenerative agriculture.Posted by Keith Agoada -
October 21, 2020
The Faces Behind the Food: Why Transparency Matters
In a new stories series, The Faces Behind the Food, we will explore where social justice fits into our agricultural systems.Posted by Amy Schmidt