John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Crop Consultant, Beekeeping, Food/Nutrition, Sustainability, Ag Europe, Ag Global Specialty Food, Pollinators,
‘No one knew they existed’: wild heirs of lost British honeybee found at Blenheim
The ‘ecotype’, thought to have been wiped out by disease and invasive species, is thriving in the estate’s ancient woodlands
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11/06/2021 SOURCE: apnews.com
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine voters passed the nation’s first “right to food” constitutional amendment on Tuesday. A statewide referendum asked voters if they favored an amendment to the Maine Constitution “to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being.” It was an experiment not tried before by any state.
Maine passes nation’s 1st ‘right to food’ amendment
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Soybeans, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food,
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Vegetables, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food, Ag South America,
Can Hatch green chiles outlast the climate crisis?
Growers of New Mexico’s iconic crop wrestle with drought, water rights and labor shortages.
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition, Coronavirus/COVID,
Diet-related diseases pose a major risk for Covid-19. But the U.S. overlooks them.
Other countries have been galvanized to confront diet issues. The U.S. has had no such wakeup call.
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition,
Return to Office: Four Key Drivers to Watch with the Business of Food
By Karol Aure-Flynn, Food & Agribusiness Industry Advisors, Wells Fargo (October 19, 2021) The changing face of the American workplace has serious implications for the business of food. It turns out that our mid-pandemic expectations of the return-to-normal are more complicated than originally envisioned. On August 8, The Wall Street Journal[1] detailed the upending of fall plans for corporate America. While economic recovery has gained momentum, new COVID-19 variants are serving up additional c
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Coffee/Tea, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food, Weather,
Coffee and the Effects of Climate Change
Whether you prefer notes of berry and citrus or chocolate and nuts, dark roast or light, a good cup of coffee can be a simple pleasure. You probably would notice if some of your morning brew’s
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Randy Krotz
Topics: Dairy, Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition, Climate Change, Carbon Farming,
Bill Gates latest big climate investment is . . . milk
The aptly named Neutral is a climate-neutral milk trying to push low-carbon solutions in dairy farming by sourcing all its milk from farms using carbon reduction techniques.
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Sorghum, Food/Nutrition, World Hunger, Ag Africa, Food Security/Shortage,
Small grains deliver big returns for African farmers facing climate change - Alliance for Science
The rains are long gone and the field is dry, but the sorghum crop is flush with luscious green leaves, foretelling a good harvest. The stubby, thin sorghum stalks, which delicately balance bi-color heads of grain, crowd farmer Simangaliso Ncube’s one-hectare plot in Mapulubusi village in Zimbabwe. Ncube planted the sorghum in the 2019-20 season, […]
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Dairy, Food/Nutrition, Research, Ag Europe, World Hunger,
Milk fueled Bronze Age expansion of ‘eastern cowboys’ into Europe
Ancient proteins show the Yamnaya dairy revolution took just 300 years
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