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Albania: A lesson in localism

Sustainable Food Trust

My idea of heaven is the 100 hectares of cultivated ground that provide a livelihood for the 50 plus families who work the land in Miras and who produce more than enough food to feed the entire community of 600 families. The reallocation of collective farms meant that thousands of families were given land to cultivate themselves.

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Seeds from Wild Crop Relatives Could Help Agriculture Weather Climate Change

Civil Eats

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Up to 40 percent of farmland has been fallowed in some parts of Arizona,” he wrote in an email. Examples of wild and domesticated forms of crops.

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