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The story of Franklin Baker Company reveals how a seemingly insignificant transaction made a huge impact on coconut-based products in the U.S.

Coconut farming in the Philippines is focusing on modernizing and optimizing the coconut industry, especially supporting the local economies.

Reports of U.S. farmers throwing out harvests due to the food service value chain crash have increased dramatically over the past two weeks. The crops we’ve seen are mostly eggs, milk, meats, vegetables, and fruits. 

An unexpected duo—”The Agronomist and the Wall Street Investor”, Alan Winstead and Brian Angiuli—joined visions back in 2014 with the goal of creating a large-scale, industrial organic farming operation that would reorient Panama’s productive sector towards the export of tropical fruit.

Covid 19 panic buying is an all-too-familiar and unpleasant scenario. It is however a needed wakeup call for our supply chain challenges.

Subhash Palekar created a basic “toolkit” for Zero Budget Natural Farming to address the agrarian crisis in India.

At RySS (Rythu Sadhikara Samstha) in Andhra Pradesh, India, they believe that natural farming is the solution to farmer empowerment. The Zero-Budget Natural Farming program enhances the welfare of small and marginalized farmers through training and education on climate-change resilient, low-cost farming practices.

Zero Budget Natural Farming is a grassroots movement in India dedicated to caring for the land, people, and communities that produce our food.

Around 8 million metric tons of plastic are dumped into the ocean each year. 236,000 of those 8 million tons are “microplastics,” fragments of plastic smaller than fingernail clippings.