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#Farming #Agriculture #FoodProduction

https://www.enn.com/articles/77617-spray-on-antibacterial-coating-offers-new-protection-for-plants-against-disease-and-drought

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/19/higher-carbon-dioxide-food-more-calorific-less-nutritious-study

#nutrition #food #FoodProduction #carbon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmDusgHYtv4

I'd say that this trend of a nation's farmland and other infrastructure being taken away counts as a modern warfare method that we need to fight against.

To even imagine how the individual step can be a bad thing from the perspective of an average person's daily life takes a moment of actual thinking. Thinking a couple steps ahead.

Most people literally can't do that. Democracy makes that a national weakness.

#video #farm #farmland #food #foodproduction #supplylines

Uncovering #decolonial pedagogies for learning #agroecological transitions: comparative analysis of #SouthAmerica cases

Michelle Bonatti, et al, October 2025, published in Global Environmental Change.

Highlights:

• Decolonial pedagogies can facilitate agroecological transition processes.
• Pedagogical models facilitate agroecological transitions by integrating diverse epistemologies in agriculture practices.
• This study identifies three contextual learning narratives: Living, Resistance, and Hybrid Pedagogies.
• A main archetype has been discovered, known as the 'South pedagogies archetype'.
• The operational decolonial pedagogies framework shows how agroecological knowledge is created in the territory.

Conclusion:

"This study reflects on the strengths, nuances, and contextual factors shaping three distinct learning processes, offering insights into the effectiveness of diverse pedagogical approaches for agroecology that value the epistemologies of the South. The research recognizes that potential agroecological transitions face challenges from entrenched power structures and the historical #erasure of knowledge systems, calling for more than technical adjustments—rather a fundamental revaluing of diverse ways of knowing and being is essential. In this context, this research responds to the pressing need for a deeper understanding of pluriversal knowledge systems, epistemologies of the South, and learning approaches that have emerged organically within the Latin American context, where agroecological movements have deep and strong roots.

The growth of agroecology, also as an academic discipline, presents both opportunities and challenges. While it validates traditional agricultural practices within Western scientific frameworks, it risks perpetuating colonial knowledge hierarchies if not grounded in decolonial perspectives. Decolonial pedagogies are fundamental for accelerating agroecological transitions. As shown in this study, traditional communities in #Colombia and #Peru have preserved and evolved their #agroecology knowledge systems through generations of #CollectiveLearning, offering profound insights into #Sustainable #FoodProduction that transcend the limitations of Western scientific methodologies. In parallel, decolonial pedagogies in the Brazilian case were essential to promote agroecological transition that started recently in the last decades.

"The three contextual narratives that emerged from the South pedagogy archetype are intricate and interconnected, defying simplistic categorization. This study shows how the South pedagogy archetype serves as a model of resistance to poverty and social exclusion through agroecology. As research understanding deepens, there is a pressing need to explore Indigenous pedagogies to unveil additional valuable approaches to learning that lead to more inclusive educational models that resonate with diverse learners and address complex global challenges.

"By showcasing the rich knowledge systems and alternative learning structures present in these three cases, this research provides valuable insights for policymakers, educators, and practitioners. These findings can inform the co-creation of strategies that nurture agroecological systems and transitions, embrace the growing diversity of agroecology approaches, and navigate the complexities inherent in designing learning processes that value multiple ways of being."

#SolarPunkSunday #Decolonize #Agroecology #Brasil #SouthAmerica #SustainableFoodProduction #SustainableAgriculture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #TEK

Spray-on Antibacterial Coating Offers New Protection for Plants Against Disease and Drought.

The coating contains polynorbornene, which according to wikipedia: "Polynorbornene is used mainly in the rubber industry for antivibration ... and grip improvement." Don't know if I would want that on my vegetables.

#foodproduction #coatings #plants

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/spray-on-antibacterial-coating-offers-new-protection-for-plants-against-disease-and-drought

So... pigs! (a thread)

I want to do a full post about them soon, and what we're planning on doing with them, but, some background:

Homesteading is trendy right now, if you didn't know. There are influencers making entire six figure or higher salaries making small-scale farming look cute, and other factors -- like increasing cost of living in cities, the ability to do remote work for some people, disillusionment with "society" or fears of climate collapse -- are pushing a lot of people to try to buy land and get on the bandwagon (or get on the bandwagon in their small suburban lots). It's wonderful that more people are interested in producing their own food and evaluating our reliance on industrial, extractive food systems, but if we're being honest, lots of these people are doing this without a psychological basis for intense physical labor, consistent work ethic (i.e: working around the clock and not quitting or skipping chores because it's cold or they're hard or you're sick or whatever), and appropriate ethics around animals as being sentient living beings deserving of care but who also are a critical part of a whole and who ultimately serve a purpose (usually food production) and instead see animals as accessories, pets, or status or novelty items.

One of the very unfortunate side effects of this is that lots and lots of people are purchasing and then breeding livestock... and then deciding that they can't actually kill them because that would be *awful*, continuing to breed them, and ending up in basically a cycle of overwhelm where without new animals coming in the novelty is worn off to the point where they don't want to do it anymore, so they keep breeding them, but then they're overwhelmed and cannot provide adequate care or afford all of the animals they have.

Livestock "rescues" are popping up left and right, diverting resources to "saving" these animals, all while many rural communities are still impoverished (despite that their tax base is increasing with upper middle class people flooding their housing markets) and without decent food.

There's a solution to this: actually producing food. We could also, then, divert some of this food to urban communities who are also without food.

The vegan debate is enormous (and I cover some of my thoughts in this post: https://rancholibertad.com/on-the-ethics-of-livestock/) but also a little ridiculous. We can pretend all we want that a vegan diet reliant on industrial food systems is actually a diet that *doesn't cause harm*, or that farming without commercial inputs is possible without animals (it isn't) or that somehow wild-sourcing all of our food is feasible in any ecosystem in the US (it isn't -- not at scale, as in, this isn't a meaningful lifestyle change any large percentage of us could make without *any* agriculture, and this isn't a lifestyle that's been lived in a very, very long time regardless of how people wish to categorize Indigenous peoples as "hunter gatherers").

So this is how we're orienting to this issue:

What we have capacity for, we're attempting to procure from these failed homesteads, where they are "calling it" and attempting to dump all of their animals.

The goal is to provide a high-welfare environment, correct any health issues, leverage the animals' instincts to support the land (i.e: pigs love rooting and can help decompact soil and clear rocky areas, turkeys and chickens help with pest control and can consume most cover crops that we plant in garden areas too small for ruminants, etc.) and then to humanely dispatch them when it is time and feed our community (or sometimes our omnivorous or carnivorous allies, like our or community members' dogs, cats, etc. that also support similar land regeneration projects through guarding or other contributions).

#Pigs #Homesteading #RegenerativeAgriculture #CommunitySovereignty #FoodProduction

Extreme floods are slashing global rice yields faster than expected https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251115095918.htm

#environment #flood #floods #flooding #food #FoodProduction #rice

Faced with the criticism that unbred plants cannot produce sufficient food, Arne Victor Garvi created a concept called Wild Perennial Polyculture. By creating an economy based on this concept, the idea was to prove that people can, in fact, live from these plants, that are nowadays known as Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS).

#lostcrops #polyculture #plantbreeding #foodproduction #wild #perennials

Guava yields in South Asia shrink due to unpredictable heat & rainfall https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/guava-yields-in-south-asia-shrink-due-to-unpredictable-heat-rainfall/

#Asia #food #FoodProduction #environment #heat #rainfall

The #VictoriaBC Urban Food Table #UFT is a #volunteer #AdvisoryCommittee dedicated to providing informed support to Victoria City Council in matters related to #FoodSecurity policy & decision making. We meet the second Wednesday of each month. Our members are #FoodSystems & #sustainability professionals and include urban and rural farmers , local businesses, educators, community association and garden representatives, health workers, dietitians & environmental stewardship not-for-profit staff. We view local #FoodProduction as fundamental to a healthy & sustainable food system, and share the common goal of a #FoodSecure region.

Our strategic goals focus on urban farming, community and home gardening, food equity, soil restoration, land and biodiversity stewardship, waste-reduction and composting, pollinator support, First Nations Reconciliation, and celebrating local food.

The Urban Food Table meets in a hybrid/online format on the second Wednesday of every month from 4:30pm - 6pm. If you are interested in joining the UFT, or to learn more - email at victoriaurbanfoodtable@gmail.com or through the form below.
https://www.victoriaurbanfoodtable.com/contact-us

#YYJ #Nonprofits #CommunityFood #FoodSystemsPlanning #FoodWasteReduction #Environmental #FeedingCommunity #UrbanFoodTable #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #GetInvolved #SoilRemediation #biodiversity #composting #FoodEquity #WaterReduction #ClimateAction #Stewardship #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEducation

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P — Plan the Menu

L — List Ingredients and Resources

A — Assign Staff and Tasks

T — Time Each Step

E — Execute and Evaluate Results

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Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wgeq702dyo?at_medium=Mastodon

#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #Food #FoodProduction #rice

I'm actually a few weeks behind on sharing some updated garden pictures, and I need to take new ones. We've had more rain and all of this is much greener now! But just for reference, this is one of our mixed infiltration basins: chicken litter mulch, yellow sweet clover around the greywater inlet (this basin gets much less and usually no greywater due to a slope issue caused by a previous WWOOFer - eventually we'll rectify that but for right now we're using this deep spot to grow food we can't grow in the proper greywater-fed basins), onions, smyrna melons, mustard greens (out of shot), cowpeas (second image) and butternut squash. As all of this grows, it will be a party of overlapping green, the squash entangling with the clover and the melon leaves flowing over the underground onion bulbs. It's already happening! I'll post some updated pictures soon.

#gardening #permaculture #avantgardening #RegenerativeAg #Desert #DesertGardening #FoodSovereignty #FoodProduction

A straw-mulched depression in the ground with baby clover, onions, squash, and melon sprouts kimd of visible. Behind the basin it's apparent the landscape is sandy.

A straw mulched depression with a rainwater carved inlet featuring onion sprouts and baby cowpea plants

Dismissed as a joke, UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wgeq702dyo

#HackerNews #Dismissed #as #a #joke #first #rice #crop #ripe #for #picking #after #hot #summer #agriculture #climatechange #foodproduction #sustainability

Ice Cream Maintenance Supervisor @ Ben & Jerry's
$69,360 - 104,040 USD yearly

Waterbury, VT | United States | Full-time | On-Site

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Ice Cream Production Coordinator @ Ben & Jerry's
$31.46 - 34.71 USD hourly

Waterbury, VT | United States | Full-time | On-Site

https://apply.coop/jobs/d39embubldac4ra34ejg-ice-cream-production-coordinator

#applycoop #Jobs #GetFediHired #foodproduction #supplychain

America’s farmers, many of whom are #Trump voters, are suffering due to #TrumpTariffs and this administration’ #TradeWar. Even in a bumper crop year, #farmers are facing multiple challenges on multiple fronts (so of course, they’re asking for taxpayer bailouts). This short TikTok video explains… #Ag #Agriculture #farming #FoodProduction #farms #Iowa #TrumpAdministration #soybeans