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Agroecology

'If You Own the Seeds You Own the Food System': Campaigners Demand Public Ownership to Counter Big Ag Privatization

Sarah Gattiker stores the 24,200th species of seed in the vault at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, which now holds 10% of the world's wild plant species, on October 15, 2009 in Sussex, England. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

'Few Things Matter More to Humans': UN Report Says We Must Protect and Restore Biodiversity of World's Soil

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

While nutritious diets, healthy populations, pollution remediation, and even climate change mitigation all depend, at least in part, on soil biodiversity, society is not doing enough to preserve this crucial resource, the U.N. warned. (Photo: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"If things carry on as they are, the outlook is bleak, unquestionably. But I think it's not too late to introduce measures now."

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As Climate Crisis Rages, the World's Public Banks Gathered at First-Ever Summit and Chose to Not Rule Out Continued Fossil Fuels Funding

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Climate activists staged a protest outside the European Central Bank headquarters demanding that the ECB stop fueling the climate crisis by supporting fossil fuel companies on October 21, 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany.

"There is no excuse for the continued funding of billions of dollars in coal,...

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'Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution': New Paper Outlines Vision for Climate Action

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farmer works on his field in Ghent, Belgium on May 21, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"Data from farming and grazing studies show the power of exemplary regenerative...

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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)

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

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

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

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

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

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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"

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Friends of the Earth

Drop Dramatically After One Week of Eating Organic

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

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Jeremy Lent

Transforming to an Ecological Civilization: The Alternative Is Unthinkable

John W. Roulac

Making America's Rivers Blue Again: Connecting the Dots Between Regenerative Agriculture and Healthy Waterways

Tara Ritter

Why Agricultural Carbon Offsets Can't Play a Role in International Climate Action

Shiney Varghese

World Food Day Drives Home Need for Change in the US

Nina Isabella Moeller, Francois Delvaux

Finance for Agroecology: More Than Just a Dream?

Million Belay

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