Katherine Albertson
@platingprogress.bsky.social
Researching & Reporting on Food’s Impact on the Climate
https://open.substack.com/pub/progressispurpose
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This week two articles were published about the value of urban agriculture. Google Trends shows that 2025 has seen a record volume of traction for urban growing. And local governments are taking notice.
Is urban agriculture finally gaining traction?
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Is urban agriculture finally gaining traction?
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Urban Agriculture is Trendy
Why everyone is talking about growing food in our cities again
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This week two articles were published about the value of urban agriculture. Google Trends shows that 2025 has seen a record volume of traction for urban growing. And local governments are taking notice.
Is urban agriculture finally gaining traction?
open.substack.com/pub/platingp...
Is urban agriculture finally gaining traction?
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One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out.
Seems like it might be time to rethink this conference
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Seems like it might be time to rethink this conference
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out.
Seems like it might be time to rethink this conference
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Seems like it might be time to rethink this conference
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Me quoted here on JBS and other agbiz players on the inside at #COP30: "this is the exact opposite way to really deal with food systems and climate change. These companies have too much at stake, too much of a direct conflict.”
The world’s biggest meat company, a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, is leading food-company efforts to engage in climate talks.
At COP30, Brazilian Meat Giant JBS Recommends Climate Policy
The world's biggest meat company, a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, is leading food-company efforts in global climate talks.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Me quoted here on JBS and other agbiz players on the inside at #COP30: "this is the exact opposite way to really deal with food systems and climate change. These companies have too much at stake, too much of a direct conflict.”
Collaboration is redefining resilience in our food systems
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Collaboration: The New Face of Resilience in Agriculture
About time we work together
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November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Collaboration is redefining resilience in our food systems
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Don't know your #Abag from your #Abiec?
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement al...
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Don't know your #Abag from your #Abiec?
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
@desmog.com can help you navigate the #AgroLobby at #COP30...
We profiled #Brazil's 3 most influential meat industry trade groups: CNA, ABIEC & ABAG
Learn more in @rachelsherrington.bsky.social's map of food & farm lobby 👉 www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m...
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This #USDA committee is a pipeline for the public to affect policy. I attended the meetings and part of my public comment was included in the final committee recommendations. The next question is whether any of the rcommendations will be enacted. #UrbanAgriculture
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Urban agriculture panel stands up to Trump cuts — City Farmer News
Those goals aren’t in keeping with the new administration, which has pledged to direct resources toward traditional farming and to bar any programs with a hint of diversity, equity and inclusion.
cityfarmer.info
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This #USDA committee is a pipeline for the public to affect policy. I attended the meetings and part of my public comment was included in the final committee recommendations. The next question is whether any of the rcommendations will be enacted. #UrbanAgriculture
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Inflation and tariffs are raising the price of shelf-stable food just when the most vulnerable Americans need to stock up, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.
America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying
Inflation and tariffs are hitting canned food just when the most vulnerable Americans need to stock up.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Inflation and tariffs are raising the price of shelf-stable food just when the most vulnerable Americans need to stock up, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.
Over the years, #SNAP has been refined and scaled, just like any other technology that aims to change our food system. Suddenly eliminating the program will set us back as a country that is increasingly underinvesting in its people.
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How SNAP Transformed Our Food System
policy can be innovation too
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November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Over the years, #SNAP has been refined and scaled, just like any other technology that aims to change our food system. Suddenly eliminating the program will set us back as a country that is increasingly underinvesting in its people.
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One of the most innovative food policies in the U.S. - the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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How SNAP Transformed Our Food System
policy can be innovation too
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November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One of the most innovative food policies in the U.S. - the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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The Farmers' Almanac is shutting down, Teen Vogue terminated its political coverage, and CBS News laid off its climate team. This has been a rough week for journalism.
#FarmersAlmanac #ClimateJournalism
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#FarmersAlmanac #ClimateJournalism
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A Fond Farewell
After more than 200 years of sharing wit and wisdom, the 2026 Farmers' Almanac will be our last edition. But our story stays alive in you.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The Farmers' Almanac is shutting down, Teen Vogue terminated its political coverage, and CBS News laid off its climate team. This has been a rough week for journalism.
#FarmersAlmanac #ClimateJournalism
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#FarmersAlmanac #ClimateJournalism
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Where are the sustainable food system leaders who have an appetite for something new?
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Where are the sustainable food system leaders who have an appetite for something new?
During the first half of 2025, agrifood startups raised just $5.1 billion, a 37 percent decline from the same period the year prior. For context, U.S. AI startups raised over $104 billion in the first half of 2025. That is almost 21 times as much funding!
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America’s Agrifood Innovation Gap
Time for Action!
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November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
During the first half of 2025, agrifood startups raised just $5.1 billion, a 37 percent decline from the same period the year prior. For context, U.S. AI startups raised over $104 billion in the first half of 2025. That is almost 21 times as much funding!
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In the heart of Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha favela, the largest in Brazil, a chance discovery led a resident creating a project to turn improperly discarded cooking oil into sustainable soaps and cleaning products.
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In Rio’s largest favela, used oil becomes soap and social change
Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or inner-city communities. It has a population of just over 72,000, and the m...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In the heart of Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha favela, the largest in Brazil, a chance discovery led a resident creating a project to turn improperly discarded cooking oil into sustainable soaps and cleaning products.
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-r...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-r...
This is a great background read for anyone who doesn't understand the key challenges with bringing innovations to market
www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/food-found...
www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/food-found...
The Venture Studio Building What the Food Industry Actually Wants
FOOD FOUNDERS Studio’s Giacomo Cattaneo on the problem-first, CEO-first model turning “trapped” food science into real adoption.
www.betterbioeconomy.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This is a great background read for anyone who doesn't understand the key challenges with bringing innovations to market
www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/food-found...
www.betterbioeconomy.com/p/food-found...
Agricultural waste comes in many forms, from crops left on farms due to surplus, disease, or visual defects, to crop byproducts after processing. Usually, this type of waste is tilled back into the soil or burned, but those processes send CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Dumping Agricultural Waste
... in the deep ocean.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Agricultural waste comes in many forms, from crops left on farms due to surplus, disease, or visual defects, to crop byproducts after processing. Usually, this type of waste is tilled back into the soil or burned, but those processes send CO2 back into the atmosphere.
As the need for urgent solutions to climate change intensifies, a new concept is gaining momentum: sinking agricultural waste into deep-ocean basins.
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Dumping Agricultural Waste
... in the deep ocean.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
As the need for urgent solutions to climate change intensifies, a new concept is gaining momentum: sinking agricultural waste into deep-ocean basins.
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With the right backing bio-based technologies, like the conversion of food waste into fuel, could reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and helping countries combat climate change, finds a new report from the United Nations (UN).
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UN report outlines roadmap for advancing bio-based technologies
The annual report from UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre, in collaboration with the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) and the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee highlights bioeconomy as ...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With the right backing bio-based technologies, like the conversion of food waste into fuel, could reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and helping countries combat climate change, finds a new report from the United Nations (UN).
www.unep.org/technical-hi...
www.unep.org/technical-hi...
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For those asking why so many of us are focused on the SNAP situation and pushing to get the facts out… 42 million people losing access to food right before the holidays could cause chaos like this country’s never seen before. People deserve to know who’s really responsible.
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For those asking why so many of us are focused on the SNAP situation and pushing to get the facts out… 42 million people losing access to food right before the holidays could cause chaos like this country’s never seen before. People deserve to know who’s really responsible.
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Soybean is widely grown in the US because it is a nitrogen fixing cash crop with substantial demand that is easy to grow, easy to harvest, and can be used in crop rotation in many regions.
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Why U.S. farmers rely on soy (and why they're in trouble)
YouTube video by Adam Ragusea
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October 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Soybean is widely grown in the US because it is a nitrogen fixing cash crop with substantial demand that is easy to grow, easy to harvest, and can be used in crop rotation in many regions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mB5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mB5...
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In her last interview before she died, Jane Goodall issued an urgent call to safeguard the Earth, warning that "humans are not exempt from extinction.”
In Her Final Interview, Jane Goodall Issues Urgent Call to Protect the Planet
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October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In her last interview before she died, Jane Goodall issued an urgent call to safeguard the Earth, warning that "humans are not exempt from extinction.”
Love this breakdown from Sarah about what is happening with the US soybean market
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
October 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Love this breakdown from Sarah about what is happening with the US soybean market
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Yeah this too.
Trump bailed Argentina's soy farmers.
Clowns have a funny way of throwing pie in your face
Trump bailed Argentina's soy farmers.
Clowns have a funny way of throwing pie in your face
THREAD.
Saw that story earlier today that Argentina took that "bailout" money the admin offered and immediately sold soybeans to China, which in prior years they would have bought from the U.S. We're cooked.
Saw that story earlier today that Argentina took that "bailout" money the admin offered and immediately sold soybeans to China, which in prior years they would have bought from the U.S. We're cooked.
US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.
Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.
We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.
October 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Yeah this too.
Trump bailed Argentina's soy farmers.
Clowns have a funny way of throwing pie in your face
Trump bailed Argentina's soy farmers.
Clowns have a funny way of throwing pie in your face
Listening to a panel on regenerative agriculture and I have to ask, does gatekeeping these practices really help the movement to better farming?
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Listening to a panel on regenerative agriculture and I have to ask, does gatekeeping these practices really help the movement to better farming?
Reposted by Katherine Albertson
the climate's probably just changing for attention
September 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
the climate's probably just changing for attention
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FDA-Approved Cultivated Meat Hits the U.S. Market
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