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Brazil - Agriculture and economic development
Meat shortage? - Food and supply chains during COVID19 Coronavirus
a collection of articles and videos about the UN Sustainable Development Goals - #2. Zero Hunger
A collection of articles and videos about issues in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazil - Property Rights, Inequality, Land Rights, Agriculture and Development issues
A collection of articles and videos looking at EU regulations and food and agriculture
A collection of articles and videos looking at EU regulations and food and agriculture
A collection of articles and videos looking at food and agriculture
Israel, Egypt, Jordan and the Middle East - Agriculture and Water Innovation
articles and videos about food in Spain
France - culture, food and wine
a collection of articles and videos to help travelers to better understand Italy
articles about Truffles - rare, edible mushrooms
a collection of articles and videos about planting trees, Deforestation and Global Warming, Climate Change
a collection of articles and videos about Deforestation and Global Warming, Climate Change
a collection of articles about Agriculture Technology in Latin America
CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation - agriculture, plants and food production
Global Warming, Carbon and Farming, Agriculture
a collection of articles about Farming - Beef, Chicken, Agriculture, Business and Science
a collection of articles about Vertical Farming - Agriculture, Gardens and Gardening
Climate Change - impact on economy, politics, development - history
Aquaculture - Fish Farming Seafood - Agriculture, Business and Science
Fertilizers and Pesticides - agriculture, farming, science
A collection of articles about Bees - and Agriculture, Farming
Impact on the future of work from Robotics and Automation, with a focus on food
a collection of articles about Mangoes - Fruit, Agriculture, Business and Science
a collection of articles and videos about GMO foods - the debate and science of genetically modified foods
a collection of articles about Costco - retail, wholesale business and chicken farming, agriculture
A collection of articles about Nuts - agriculture, farming
A collection of articles about Cherry Farming - Agriculture and cherries

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Article

Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products - Washington Post

The Netherlands has used advances in vertical farming, seed technology and robotics to become the world’s second-largest agriculture exporter. (2023)


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MST in Brazil: If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It - The New York Times

The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement... (2023)


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Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years

How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning A nickname for the fruit was the “poison apple” because it was thought that aristocrats got sick ... (2020)


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Americans on Cusp of Meat Shortage With Food Chain Breaking Down - April 2020 - Bloomberg

‘The food supply chain is breaking,’ Tyson chairman says Almost a third of U.S. pork capacity is down after outbreaks Plant shutdowns are lea... (2020)


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Hundreds of U.S. Meat Workers Have Now Tested Positive for Virus (2020) - Bloomberg

There’s been a spike in coronavirus cases at meat plants in the U.S., with hundreds of reported infections in just the last week. That’s adding to ... (2020)


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Three Deaths Expose Fears for Strength of U.S. Food-Supply Chain (2020) - Bloomberg

Three Tyson, JBS employees were reported to have died That’s fueling worries about supply disruptions as plants idle Some of the workers who ... (2020)


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How much do direct livestock emissions actually contribute to global warming?

Abstract Agriculture directly contributes about 10%–12% of current global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from livestock. However, s... (2020)


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Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair | U.S. PIRG

Delegates of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, which represents 58,000 member families, voted 176-1 to formally endorse the right of its constituents to re... (2019)


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How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires - The New York Times

From turmeric in Nicaragua to cardamom in Guatemala, nonnative ingredients are redefining trade routes and making unexpected connections across lands. (2019)


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This Google Ventures-backed indoor farming startup just opened its biggest farm yet (2019)

The Baltimore farm is 3.5 times as large as Bowery’s formerly largest farm—and is the latest attempt to make indoor farming work as a way to disrup... (2019)


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US milk sales drop by more than $1 billion as plant-based alternatives take off | World Economic Forum

A change to non-dairy alternatives, mixed with low milk prices, has contributed a drop in sales value of $1.1 billion in the US last year. (2019)


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Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods burgers could change the way we think about masculinity — Quartzy

The rise of meatless foods could be part of a broader cultural shift in gender politics. (2019)


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Burger King is introducing a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods - The New York Times

Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’. Burger King is introducing a Whopper made with a vegetarian patty from the start-up Impossible Foods. Th... (2019)


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Even With a Housing Oversupply, Quebec City Is Coming For Its Farmland

As agricultural areas are snatched up and transformed into new housing developments, one farmer keeps fighting. (2019)


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What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.? - The New York Times

The European Union prohibits many food additives and various drugs that are widely used in American foods. (2018)


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Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? We’ll Have To, a New Study Finds - The New York Times

To make meaningful progress on climate change, cows and wheat fields will have to become radically more efficient. (2018)


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The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple -- Bloomberg

Everyone’s favorite apple is leaving Northeastern orchards out on a limb. (2018)


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IBM's Food Blockchain Is Going Live With Carrefour, a Supermarket Giant on Board - CoinDesk

IBM is taking its food-tracking blockchain into production and has already signed up European supermarket giant Carrefour. (2018)


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Oaxaca’s Potent Secret, Mezcal Is Born of Time, Tradition and a Slow-Growing Plant - The New York Times

This cousin of tequila is handcrafted by farmers in small batches from the maguey plant, which takes 7 to 30 years to reach maturity. (2018)


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Buying organic veggies at the supermarket is a waste of money — Quartz

Organic carrots: not worth your whole paycheck. (2018)


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Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - Time for Global Action for People and Planet (2018)


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The Super Bowl of Beekeeping - The New York Times

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) wh... (2018)


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Food-Living Green - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences - Extension- University of Florida

Living Green focuses on how communities incorporate environmental concerns into their homes, neighborhoods, and businesses to help conserve natural... (2018)


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Climate Change Is Messing With Your Dinner | Bloomberg

The future of food looks like lots of lobsters, Polish chardonnay and California coffee. (2018)


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The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting | Columbia University

Two new papers find that the line that divides the moist East and arid West is edging eastward due to climate change—and the implications for farmi... (2018)


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How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution | Science | Smithsonian

Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color... (2018)


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On the Nature of Wine -- And the Cultural Contradictions of Artisanal Capitalism

"science, technology, and infrastructure have provided the foundation upon which the art of modern winemaking relies. This includes greater underst... (2018)


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Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? - The New York Times

Plants can be frozen in place with the same anesthetics used on you during surgery. It suggests they may be less different from animals than is oft... (2018)


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Anthony Bourdain Talks Tough About Food Waste

New York Times, Film Review, 2017: "The TV traveler and the chef Danny Bowien spoke about their new anti-waste film Thursday for Times Talks. “Go ... (2017)


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Cocoa farming and Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses chocolate, cocoa farming, and, of course, some facts that will make Halloween a little weird.Connect with Last Week Tonight o... (2023)


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How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited

How Solar Panels Are Changing Agriculture - Agrivoltaics Revisited. Visit the SPAN website to get a quote and start the process of having SPAN in y... (2023)


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Egypt plans to green its desert

Egypt plans to green its desert Egypt is growing at two million people a year. Urban infrastructures can'... (2023)


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Whatever Happened to the Bee Apocalypse?

Do you remember the headlines screaming that the bees ... (2022)


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The dark history of bananas - John Soluri

Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America. --In December 19... (2021)


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Transition to Agriculture | Big History Project

Craig Benjamin explains how agriculture drove change and why humans took the risk of abandoning foraging. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.co... (2020)


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Why Was Agriculture So Important? | Big History Project

The invention of agriculture is not just a matter of tastier food. It unlocked powerful forces that transformed history. Website: https://www.bighi... (2020)


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Threshold 7: Agriculture | Big History Project

When humans began farming, new, more complex ways of living were possible. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/portal Facebook: https://www.... (2020)


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Millions protest genetically modified food - 2013 - CNN

Jake Tapper reports on the controversy that surrounds GMOs and one of the companies that makes them. For more CNN videos, visit our site ... (2019)


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Europe's new approach to GMOs

Long divided over GMOs - are they a threat or an opportunity? - the EU has now found a way forward. (2019)


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Are GMOs Good or Bad? Genetic Engineering & Our Food

Are GMOs bad for your health? Or is this fear unfounded? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://w... (2019)


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What's wrong with our food system | Birke Baehr | TEDxNext Generation Asheville

Birke Baehr -"what's Wrong With Our Food System? And How Can We Make A Difference. Video by: Twin Path Productions www.... (2019)


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Climate 101: Deforestation | National Geographic

Forests cover about 30% of the planet, but deforestation is clearing these essential habitats on a massive scale. What is deforestation? Find out t... (2019)


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Tree to Bar || How to Make Chocolate Every Step

In this video I show every step to making dark chocolate from cacao tree to chocolate bar. There is roughly 7 step to making chocolate so sit back ... (2018)


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Made in Israel: Agriculture

The Official 700 Club Published on Sep 3, 2013 Gordon Robertson looks at Israel's remarkable agricultural innovation, with special focus on the... (2018)


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Food Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight Published on Jul 19, 2015 Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of fo... (2018)


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The New Tropic - A not-so-sweet history of Florida's algae crisis | Facebook

Sugar: bad for you and bad for our waterways. (2018)


Podcast

On Beeing - 99% Invisible

Driving between Oakland and Los Angeles in February offers glimpses of a spectacular scene — neat, symmetrical rows of trees covered with pink and ... (2019)


Podcast

The Vault -Seed food bank - 99% Invisible

Svalbard is a remote Norwegian archipelago with reindeer, Arctic foxes and only around 2,500 humans — but it is also home to a vault containing see... (2018)


Book

Energy and Civilization | The MIT Press

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel–d... (2020)


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