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Agroecology

Top Global Experts Say Humanity Must 'Heal Our Broken Relationship With Nature' to Prevent Future Pandemics

A sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is seen inside a cage at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program's rehabilitation center on November 10, 2016 in Kuta Mbelin, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The orangutans in Indonesia have been known to be on the verge of extinction as a result of deforestation and poaching. (Photo: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

Save the Insects, Save the Farmers, Save Ourselves: New Global Report Calls for End of Industrial Agriculture

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

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"The evidence is clear: pesticide use is wiping out insect populations and ecosystems around the world, and threatening food production."

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Fridays for Future Europe Calls for Transforming Agricultural Policy to Tackle the Climate Crisis

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer works on his field in Ghent, Belgium on May 21, 2020.

"E.U. politicians must recognize that a great hope to combat the climate crisis...

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Save the Insects, Save Ourselves: Researchers Sound Alarm on Bugpocalypse

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

ground beetle on a plant

New papers detail severe threats facing insects, how their plight is...

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To Combat Dishonest Marketing, New 'Farm vs. Factory' Website Contrasts Industrial and Sustainable Agriculture

New Report Details 10 'Critical Transitions' to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Feed the World

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Bolsonaro Greenlights New Pesticides Even as Advocates Mourn Half Billion Dead Bees in Brazil

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With Petition to Congress, 100,000+ People Demand Green New Deal 'That Fixes Our Food System'

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300+ Groups to Congress: #GreenNewDeal 'Must Transform Our Food System and Revitalize Rural America'

Image for Day of the Landless says "Reclaim or lands, reclaim our future!"

A 'Commitment to Reclaim Our Lands and Our Future': 100+ Groups Mark 'Day of the Landless'

"In the two months since our first action, we have expanded more than we imagined," Liam Geary Baulch, a U.K.-based Extinction Rebellion activist, told The Guardian. "We are now planning to change our structure so it can accommodate up to two million people." (Photo: Extinction Rebellion)

As Uprising Spreads Across Globe, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky Among Signers of Open Letter Backing Extinction Rebellion

The People's Demands for Climate Justice

To Boot Big Polluters From COP24, Global Groundswell Backs "People's Demands for Climate Justice"

"Most of the top 35 global meat and dairy giants either do not report or underreport their emissions. Only four of them provide complete, credible emissions estimates." (Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

Emissions Impossible: How Big Meat and Dairy Are Heating Up the Planet

Boosting Hopes for Total Ban, EU Regulator's New Assessment Confirms Neonics' Harm to Bees

Demonstrators march in Berlin on Saturday calling for an end to industrial agriculture. (Photo: Bund/Friends of the Earth Germany)

At Berlin March, Tens of Thousands Demand End to Industrial Agriculture

Big Meat and Dairy’s Supersized Climate Footprint

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National Family Farm Coalition

Civil Society Organizations Demand US Promote Agroecology

Friends of the Earth

More Than 300 Groups Urge Congress to Make Food and Agriculture Central to the Climate Crisis and Green New Deal Debate

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Big Meat and Dairy Companies are Heating up the Planet: New Report

Community Alliance for Global Justice

World Food Prize Hides True Cost of Agricultural Development in Africa: Food Sovereignty Prize Honors Critical Work of Small Farmers and Fishers

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

Study Finds That Boosting Soil’s Sponge-Like Qualities Would Help Farmers, Communities Combat Floods and Droughts

Center for Food Safety

Landmark Report Shows Bee-killing Seed Coatings Aren’t Worth the Harm

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Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe": An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism

Vandana Shiva

Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity

Walden Bello

The Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse

Pete Salmansohn

What Barry Commoner's Four Principles of Ecology Has to Do With China's Coronavirus

Peter Nelson

What's Wrong With the Bees? Our New Film, "The Pollinators," Seeks an Answer

Timothy A. Wise

Rome Summit Takes Bold Step Toward Agroecology

David R. Montgomery

The Key to Saving Family Farms Is in the Soil

David Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin

Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises

Timothy Wise

World Hunger Is on the Rise

Kelsey Kruger

The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an End to Factory Farming