Agriculture

The Gardeneers: Two Chicago School Teachers on a Mission to Change Schools Through Gardens

The Gardeneers team provides a unique and customized combination of services for schools looking to implement school gardens in Chicago, Illinois.

The Peterson Garden Project: Teaching Chicago to Grow

The Peterson Garden Project is teaching people how to bring their food from garden to table by introducing a gardening guide and a teaching kitchen in 2014.

Indigenous Crop: Lablab: to Cook or Not to Cook?

It is important to boil mature beans or dried beans to remove the cyanogenic glycosides.

How Melbourne is Becoming a Sustainable, Thriving Food City

Melbourne, Australia is recognizing the impact food has on the health and well-being of its community and is committed to promoting a healthy food system.

Food Tank’s Summer 2014 Reading List – 18 Books For A Better Food System

Food Tank’s 18 summer “must reads” for your tablet or bookshelf.

Celebrating Mothers Who Invest in Their Children and the Land

This May, let’s honor the investment that mothers throughout Rwanda—-and the rest of Africa—-are making in their children and in their land.

Indigenous Crop: Locust Bean—Not a Plant but a Tree

The locust bean tree is valuable in many ways: the fruit provides sustenance, the branches provide shade, and the leaves restore soil to good health.

Food: A Forum: Solutions for a Hungry Planet with Jon Foley

Jonathan Foley opened up Food: A Forum with detailed solutions for meeting the nutritional demands of the world’s growing population.

Food: A Forum Highlights the Big Question Marks for Farming

National Geographic’s executive editor, Dennis R. Dimick, opens the Future of Food Forum, urging a global conversation on agriculture.

IYFF: The National Family Farm Coalition Champions Family Farmers

The National Family Farm Coalition works to support U.S. family farms and healthy, sustainable food production.

10 Baltimore Urban Agriculture Projects You Should Know About

Urban agriculture supports healthy eating, local food production, and green industry in Baltimore.

The Case for Connection: Urban Farming Takes Root in Upper West Chicago

Once vacant land plots of Nicky’s farm have undergone a dramatic transformation- and so has the neighborhood of East Garfield Park in Chicago, IL.

The Smart Gardener Takes the Guesswork Out of Gardening

The Smart Gardener uses technology to help gardeners plan, plant, and harvest their gardens.

IYFF: New Brand in Peru Supports Local Women Organic Farmers

Peru’s AGROECO and ANPE-PERU are promoting a brand that will support the cultivation and sale of organic produce by smallholder women farmers.

China Shapes the Industrial Meat Complex to Meet its Growing Need for Feed

China, now a top player in the industrial meat complex, shapes global soy production.

New Partnership Advocates Closing the Gender Gap and Increasing Youth Participation in Agriculture

Food Tank and The Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) announce they will be collaborating during the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF).

Sustainable Business: A Farmers’ Market at Your Fingertips—Farmigo

Bringing farmers’ markets into the Internet age, Farmigo puts the power of community-supported agriculture into the hands of consumers.

Database of Sustainable Grassland Management – Calling for Submissions!

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is calling for submissions to its Database of Best Practices in Sustainable Grassland Management.

Indigenous Crop: Fonio—One of the World’s Oldest Grains

Fonio may be one of the tastiest cereals that you have never tried.

Sunrise Ranch Permaculture Design Course Based on Original Curriculum

Sunrise Ranch intentional community has a long history of practicing sustainable agriculture and teaching permaculture design.

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