Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Farmers in many parts of the world, particularly smallholder, Indigenous, and family farmers, are increasingly seeing their agriculture practices turn against them. They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embry’s focus on urban agriculture and food justice in Detroit drew a global audience, where he hosted audiences include the British Parliament, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and distinguished personalities such as Danny Glover, David Korten , and Joanna Macy. This means everyone is involved in the food agricultural system.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. Where are we in the ecological succession?

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. Agriculture at its best can do this.” Another part of my argument is ecological feedback. ” That’s not going to work at so many different levels.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

agriculture currently faces some steep challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo. However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system.

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Caff

AUGUST 26, 2024

Community Alliance with Family Farmers, in partnership with the Farm Service Agency, Veggielution, Agroecology Commons, the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Food Access LA, are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Growing Urban Agriculture microgrants for the Spring of 2024.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition press@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) to address emerging agricultural issues, instead requiring USDA to receive Congressional approval for any use of the CCC.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The agriculture students will be growing and raising specialty crops and animals for us, and culinary students will get the chance to get their hands in the dirt to learn what it takes to grow a crop,” says chef-instructor and Top Chef alum Robin Leventhal. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

These organizations are supporting local food producers and regional economies, offering educational resources and agricultural training, and working to ensure that their neighbors don’t go hungry. They also bring local government leaders together to develop plans that integrate urban agriculture into city planning processes.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. Juan Francisco Segura of the El Limón community in Panama is one of over 3,000 farmers who have partnered with SHI since 1997 to transform and heal their land through agriculture. Among the 12.6

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

As a researcher of urban agriculture, I was shocked to see a recent news article bearing the headline “ Food from urban agriculture has a carbon footprint six times larger than conventional produce, study shows.” Back up a step: What is urban agriculture? Oxford Tract research farm at UC Berkeley.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 2017, CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been conducting an on-farm demonstration project in collaboration with California no-till farmers to better understand small-scale biointensive no-till farming’s effect on soil health. Their webinar grabbed the attention of hundreds of agricultural enthusiasts, invoking in-depth discussion.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It sits alongside the Belize Northeastern Biological Corridor, which connects various ecological reserves and allows for safe passage of wildlife like jaguars and pumas. The ecological farming practices SHI partner farmers use provide even more habitat for wildlife and contribute to national conservation efforts.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Over at Tool Legit, the farmers share similar goals of farming ecologically and productively at a human scale, which lends to knowledge-sharing, too. “It France has the most developed sharing system, which includes a network of over 12,000 agricultural equipment cooperatives, involving a third of all French farms.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

acres in Southwest Philadelphia, produces over 15,000 pounds of food per year using natural agricultural practices, and is powered by paid high school interns working alongside community elders, neighbors and volunteers. “At is an outspoken defender of civil rights and equality, mainly in the world of agriculture / farming.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s COMET-Farm tool , which estimates the effects of agricultural practices on greenhouse gasses, projects that adding legume cover crops to annual crop fields sequesters about a ton of CO2 per acre per year, for instance. agriculture. Verification is another challenge.

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

We believe farmers of color, and other historically oppressed people, should have the opportunity to create and participate in a food and agriculture system that aligns with their needs, values, identities, knowledge systems, and communities. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Caff

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

About Shepherdess Our team is composed of next-generation graziers, folks new to agriculture coming from backgrounds traditionally atypical for someone who works with livestock and the land. Although our operations are different, we all care for our animals, families, the land and future of viable agricultural operations all the same.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The struggle over coastal land has continued to intensify as locals endure successive waves of development, rezoning, and ecological destruction. An ornithologist can help document nesting territories, an ecologist document biodiversity marshland, and an agricultural economist can help assess the value of agroecological traditions.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO On-Farm Research While CAFF’s preliminary on-farm research trials have wrapped up, we’ve continued to visit no-till farms in Northern California in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Agroecology Lab. It is really fun for the crew to see. They are starting to experience soil change overtime. Progression takes time.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The couple show a real passion for nature, as evidenced by the sign at the entrance of their farm which reads, “Ecology now!” And for agroecological farmers and growers, this poses some difficulty. Troed y Rhiw is an 8.5 Further, there’s very little government funding of edible horticulture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

But as we understand ecological systems better, we have come to realise that, while they can be very resilient, at some level of degradation they reach tipping points at which they flip into new states far less conducive to human life.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Editor’s Note: According to the USDA, agriculture accounted for around 11% of carbon emissions in the USA in 2020. To improve humanity’s impact on the climate, we will need to change the way we approach agriculture in the future. However, the rise of regenerative agriculture has sparked a number of questions.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Our editors, staff writers, and freelance contributors have a wide selection of food and agriculture books to recommend, both for gift-giving purposes and for the quiet moments you carve out for yourself. We hope our Holiday Book Guide can help create a calm harbor of sorts during this often-harried end-of-year season.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Created by Congress in 1985, the CRP asks agricultural producers to voluntarily take environmentally sensitive land out of active production and conserve it. It is always overdrawn.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The post-war Government enabled an agricultural transition that dramatically shifted farming and diets. v] [vi] [vii] Yet, under the last Government, Defra underspent on its agriculture budget commitments by £358million over three years. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JULY 16, 2024

Young Farmers is excited to announce that Government Relations Director, Vanessa García Polanco has been appointed to the USDA’s National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board. said Nick Rossi, Research Extension and Education Policy Specialist at National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources. Department of Agriculture.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Contributing authors: Liza Greene , Elena Seeley , and Alessandra Uriarte The food and agriculture movement made incredible strides over the last year—but our work isn’t done yet! These groups are continuing to push for food and agriculture systems that are economically, socially, and environmentally just and equitable.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sarah Compson, Associate Director of the Soil Association and International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Organics International World Board member agrees saying, “it’s important to look behind the label and understand the standards underpinning a certification in order to get a sense of the real difference it makes”.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., This marked the beginning of an agrarian movement chronicled by David Gilbert in Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land.

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Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

When it comes to ecologically produced food, to sustainable agriculture, to farmers welfare; there is no diverse person that can tackle and better discuss these matters, than Tammi Jonas. around the agroecological transition. Tammi has been farming for about 10 years, and recently started a Ph.D.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. This public research and development (R&D) investment is the primary driver of long-term productivity growth in US agriculture.

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