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** Paving the Path for Black Farming and Sustainability: Community Changemaker Adrian Lipscombe
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** March 15, 2021
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Food availability and accessibility starts with our farmers and the land. As an industry under intense challenges and on the verge of crisis even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the future of farming requires care and stewardship from younger, more diverse generations to impact how we feed ourselves in years to come.
Thankfully there are women like Community Changemaker Adrian Lipscombe who is pioneering a project that has the potential to revitalize how we think about farming and break down historic barriers to make agriculture a more inclusive industry in communities. She started the 40 Acres and a Mule Project to make farming accessible for Black people, reduce Black food waste, and ultimately establish a sustainable program for future generations of farmers.
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** Can Upcycled Foods Make a Meaningful Impact on Food Waste?
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** February 23, 2021
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Companies like Toast Ale, Barnana, White Moustache and Sir Kensington’s have made headlines for rescuing foods like bread, bananas, whey and aquafaba that would have otherwise gone to the landfill and using them as ingredients in foods like yogurt pops, mayonnaise, snack crisps and beer.
The so-called “upcycled foods” are part of an effort to reduce some of the estimated 125 to 160 billion pounds of food waste generated in the United States each year. Upcycled foods can be found in 9,000 supermarkets in 10 countries and research shows that the upcycled foods market is worth $46.7 billion (and climbing)
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2/27/21
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