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The Future of Food Packaging
Trends like eliminating plastic straws feel like a big leap in bettering our world, but to be effective, we need to address the bigger picture of packaging. So, how do we continue to find compelling ways to protect our environment, eliminate food waste, and effectively package our food?
Food Production, Future of Food
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Does Intermittent Fasting Make Us Healthier?
Can time-restricted feeding, or just eating during an 8 to 10-hour period during the day, offer just as many long-term health benefits as other intermittent fasting practices? And how hard is it to keep up?
Diet, Health
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Demanding Equality: Women Farmers in Africa
These women farmers in Africa not only challenge the status quo, but have dramatically improved their local economies...and beyond.
Agricultural Labor, Food Security, Soil and Crop Management
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Dairy: An Industry in Quiet Turmoil
Dairy has been hit hard recently, but the truth is that the U.S. dairy sector has had problems long before COVID. The pandemic has only made things worse. A lot worse...
Food Production
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A Vitamin D-lemma: Sunscreen vs. Healthy Sun Exposure
How can we get our much-needed vitamin D while protecting our bodies from the sun and potentially harmful chemicals in sunscreens?
Health
Combating Desertification & Land Degradation
On June 17th of each year, people concerned about the scourge of desertification, land degradation, and drought work to raise awareness and promote solutions to these important issues. Think this day may not pertain to you? Think again. This topic is the fulcrum to gain leverage for many of the positive changes you’d like to see in the world.
Climate Change, Soil and Crop Management
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Do I Eat it if I Can’t Pronounce It?
We are told that steering clear of scary-sounding ingredients is a simple, healthy way to avoid potentially toxic chemicals. But it’s important now more than ever to understand how food can affect us, because myths like this bolster unneeded fear during an anxious time.
Food Ingredients, Health
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Dirty Tactics from EWG’s Dirty Dozen
EWG recently released its annual “Dirty Dozen” produce list, which stokes fears of eating produce with pesticide residues...as if we don't already have enough to fear with COVID. But is EWG right? Or do the benefits of eating produce to maintain our health far outweigh these concerns?
Food Safety, Health, Soil and Crop Management
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How Blockchain is Disrupting the Ag Supply Chain
There is no doubt the ag industry needs a way to accurately and securely track and monitor its entire supply chain, and it needs to be scalable to handle the needs of one of the largest logistical operations in the world. Enter Blockchain.
Food Regulations and Policy, Food Technology
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How To Help Food Pantries Feed The Hungry Amid Protests
As food insecurity rises among wrecked supermarkets and coronavirus-caused unemployment, food pantries face greater challenges. Here's how you can help.
Food Security, Soil and Crop Management
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‘Carbon Farming’ Could Make US Agriculture Truly Green
A Senate committee will hear about a bill that would help farmers adopt practices to release less carbon from the soil, reducing planetary warming.
Soil and Crop Management
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The Great Cheese Emergency
Mountains of specialty cheese have been piling up in warehouses in recent months, as restaurants shuttered and other traditional markets closed down across America.
Food Production
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From Old-School Gardening to the Future of Food
A video compendium covering everything from the starter plants in your window to giant agriculture...there's a lot of science to cover before dinner.
Food Production