Environment

A shocking new study found that nearly 200 chemicals linked to breast cancer are being used in food packaging, and, worse yet, dozens of the carcinogens can find their way into the body. “There is strong evidence that 76 known or potential breast carcinogens from food contact materials recently purchased all over the world can be found in people,” Jane Muncke, co-author of the study and managing director and chief scientific officer of the Food Packaging Forum, a nonprofit foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland, told CNN this week.

There have been criticisms about regenerative grazing systems and their ability to sequester greenhouse gases to assist our climate change efforts. These criticisms stem from academics steeped in the current industrial agriculture systems.

At the height of summer, chef Rob Rubba and his team at Oyster Oyster, a vegetable-first restaurant in Washington, D.C., are preparing for the dwindling of food in the coming winter. It’s a tedious but worthwhile process: drying mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs, making pickles and slaw, and preserving garlic blossoms and coriander seeds in airtight jars before these ingredients vanish with the end of the season.

Regeneration International director, André Leu was part of the Radio Cafe Podcast, to talk about his new book is  The Regenerative Agriculture Solution: A Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Health, published by Chelsea Green Press, where you can use the code CGP35 to get 35% off this book. 

The looming environmental dangers of massive deployment of digitalization and unleashing AI are being effectively ignored by the UN Summit of the Future taking place in New York on 22-23 September 2024 [1]. Giant technology companies are using the summit to position themselves as the tech saviours who will solve the world crises, with final versions of the text concealing the stark impact of their activities on the planet’s environment.

WE, the more than 400 delegates, comprised of farmers, youth, women, entrepreneurs, researchers, CSOs, and policy actors, attending the Tripartite Event on African Agroecological Entrepreneurship, the Harare Seed and Food Festival, and the 5th Biennial Food System Celebration held in Harare, Zimbabwe from 11th to 14th September 2024, under the theme ‘Celebrating Our Healthy African Food Heritage’, hereby make this ‘Harare Declaration of Commitment and Call to Action’ for advancing agroecology and agroecological entrepreneurship in Africa.

Have you ever thought about the value of soil? It covers 30% of the earth’s surface. It supports all of our ecosystems, from farms and grazing land to rainforests and the vast northern taiga. It contains more carbon than the earth’s atmosphere and all its plant biomass combined. The amount of fresh water in soil that’s available to grow plants is 100 times greater than all the world’s lakes, rivers, and wetlands put together. Soil connects the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. And 95% of the food we eat is dependent on it, making soil the single most important resource for agriculture to feed the world.