Acre Agroecology Ranching 
Food Tank
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
As Adrian Lipscombe, a chef and the Founder of the 40 Acres Project, put it: “If we don’t have soil health, we’re not going to have food.” The organization behind the film, Kiss the Ground, has launched a campaign to help 100,000 more farmers transition 100 million more acres of U.S. And they’re pushing innovation.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 12, 2024
In an email to High Country News , Roy Smith, a Sonoma County farmer who runs a seven-acre hay operation, wrote that the debate lacks nuance: “Both sides argue a truth, and both sides permit a falsehood,” he said. In a country dominated by large-scale farming operations comprising thousands of acres of monocrops, Sonoma County is an outlier.
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Civil Eats
AUGUST 29, 2023
He’s still in the livestock business—cows, chickens, and goats all graze across Good Wheel’s 42 acres. Increasingly, it also means projects that work with very large farms to implement practices such as cover cropping and reduced tillage on tens of thousands of acres of Midwestern corn and soy. it doesn’t work.”
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 14, 2023
Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 28, 2024
Each of these three conservation activities represents a holistic approach to improving conservation across an entire operation, either by requiring producers to adopt multiple practice enhancements on the same acres or to pursue ambitious, measurable soil health goals, such as increasing organic matter (OM) over the life of their CSP contract.
Civil Eats
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.
Food Tank
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. Audubon Society, United States Recognizing the link between food systems and wildlife conservation, the Audubon Society launched the Conservation Ranching Initiative.
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