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Understanding the COMET-Planner Tool

ATTRA

For example, if you want to know how much CO2 equivalent will be sequestered for cover cropping one acre in Travis County, Texas, entering 1 acre in the model will yield zero. This means that one acre of cover crop on irrigated farmland with a 25% reduction in nitrogen fertilizer will sequester 0.27 ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. To help feed the world sustainably, their goal is to conserve 10 billion acres of ocean, 1.6

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. Small and regionally-based private seed companies acted mainly as breeders of regional seed and distributors of publicly developed seed varieties. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48

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