The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s. AAS: How are wetlands being threatened? STACY WOODS: The US has lost half of its wetlands since its founding. STACY WOODS: Yes. We estimated that the 30.4

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In an age of mechanized and industrialized agriculture, they face many challenges in operating a sustainable cattle farm—and there’s federal assistance to help with that. Outreach to Black landowners, others who are underserved The Johnson family is raising cattle on about 15 of the 200 acres they own near Lexington, Mississippi.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

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