Living Income and the Risk of Economic Vulnerability
Inflation is at record levels and food shortages abound due to logistics issues and the war in Ukraine. This is both a difficult time to work on increasing farmer income…
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Scaling Agricultural Transition: Understanding Why Agriculture Is The Way It Is & Then ID Leverage Points
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Large-scale commodity agriculture functions the way it does for understandable reasons. But that hardly means it needs to remain stuck in the status…
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Job Opening: Program Manager
***PLEASE NOTE, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME*** It’s not often we hire at the Food Lab. We are a small, highly effective team that values collegiality,…
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Businesses are Cultivating Regenerative Agriculture: Watch Out for 3 Potential Traps
By Elizabeth Reaves and Hal Hamilton Regenerative agriculture – a term covering a broad range of sustainable farming practices, many of them as old as agriculture itself – is…
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Job Opening: Partnership Manager
***PLEASE NOTE, WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME*** SFL is thrilled to post an opening for a 1-year contract to provide direct support to PepsiCo. This position…
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The Role of Procurement, Marketing & Finance in Investing in Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Climate Risk
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Within a food and beverage company, climate risk affects each function in different ways – and each of these functions can help farmers…
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New Scale Lab Report: Regenerative Agriculture and the Role of Companies in Galvanizing Systems Change
Culminating in this report and accompanying resources, the Food Lab and Midwest Row Crop Collaborative led a group of ten companies and The Nature Conservancy to develop an exciting and…
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Food Lab Supports an Ambitious 10-Year Plan to Transform Coffee
Building on many years of work on sustainability in the coffee sector, a recent commitment from the International Coffee Council (ICC) and its secretariat the International Coffee Organization (ICO) has…
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What we learned feeding oats to cattle
Depending on where you are, agriculture today is based mainly on simplified rotations such as the corn/soybean system in the Midwest. Planting cover crops is a great first step, but…
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The Mushrooming Scope of Sustainability Strategy
The stakes are rising because systemic risks have huge financial consequences by Hal Hamilton I’ll use ocean fisheries as a quick example of the scope of sustainability strategy.…
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