Sustainable Harvest International

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Before defining regenerative agriculture, it’s important to note what it isn’t. Regenerative agriculture offers a powerful solution to today’s interconnected crises, including the climate crisis, poverty, declining food security, and biodiversity loss. Industrial agriculture prioritizes profit over the health of the planet.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 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. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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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. The Farm, Food, and National Security Act fundamentally fails to meet the moment. The Farm, Food, and National Security Act falls short of that mark,” commented Lavender. The bill restricts the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Embarking on the journey of regenerative agriculture is akin to slipping into a swimming pool. Philanthropy can help tilt the incentives needed to usher in a regenerative and agroecological transition that centers farmers and landscape stewards and recognizes a shared set of principles. It is possible to forge a more sustainable path.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

The next government should make sustainable food and farming key to the future economy, addressing climate change, restoring nature and re-building public health. Farming has arguably never been so prominent within the political agenda as over the last 12 months.

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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. The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. They eventually had no option but to stop farming and let the land heal. But they can’t do it alone.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. However, the publication also presents planned solutions to reduce emissions and transform toward increasingly robust farming systems.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year. Walla Walla Community College’s program may be one of the most extensive culinary-agriculture curriculums, but there are others. who will direct the new project. “As

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Farmer Ibrahim at the Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, KS. While OUAIP is housed within the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS), it works across United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) recently awarded the 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize to the Black Dirt Farm Collective and Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP). The Collective focuses on sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices, land-based healing, and promoting food justice.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Likely decline in the number of farms globally by the middle of the century. Just agricultural science: The green revolution, biotechnologies, and marginalized farmers in Africa. Questioning the role of “opinion leaders” in agricultural programs. Thanks, satellites! Thanks, satellites. Can you tell OFSP from space?

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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. The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Earlier this year, CAFF kicked off a massive project in the San Joaquin Valley to help support family farms there and strengthen the local food economy, in partnership with UC Agriculture & Natural Resources (UC ANR) and the Central Valley Community Foundation (CVCF), among others. Why take on such a big project?

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But if we do it right, it will have a positive ripple effect that will benefit everyone in California and will make the San Joaquin Valley a positive example around the world for agriculture, energy, and socioenvironmental justice. Railways and natural resources were diverted away from Allensworth to white-owned interests and farm holdings.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. In addition to political and economic stressors in Haiti, environmental degradation and the climate crisis are exacerbating the impact of natural disasters on Haiti’s agriculture sector.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. This short briefing explores how regenerative farming is core to delivery of Labour’s missions, and how public investment in the farming transformation can deliver for its economic, environmental and social goals. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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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. Are you still actively involved in farming?

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A cause for controversy Unsurprisingly, it’s an approach that hasn’t been particularly well received by the hill farming community. It’s a frustrating situation, not least because most people probably agree that there is space for hill farming and rewilding to coexist.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. Some farms were able to stop production temporarily while they identified possible solutions.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As key players in producing food, restaurants and farms can take on a central role in creating climate progress. ’ The Summit, “Restaurants and Farms: A Key Solution to the Climate Crisis,” was presented along with partners Planet FWD, Brightly, Guckenheimer, Astanor and Protein PACT.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The writer, farmer, and social scientist doesn’t believe that humans need to take themselves out of the natural world to protect it, and he argues for agrarian localism over ecomodernism in his latest book, Saying No to a Farm-Free Future. Agriculture at its best can do this.” Agriculture at its best can do this.”

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As countries negotiate and announce their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or environmental action plans, they must meaningfully uplift agroecological and regenerative approaches, not just pay lip service. The small farmers of the Americas want, desire, hope to help improve the environment. Register HERE. Register HERE.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Oxford Real Food and Farming Conference (ORFC) has flourished since it began in 2010, now drawing a huge diversity of people from across the world of food and farming. This afternoon, it was about Welsh farming and food. I’ve looked at the way that we farm, and I think that we do come under ‘agroecological’, in a sense.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Written by: Isabelle Dom Across the world of ESG investing, SDG impact, and climate change mitigation, a consistent omission has been bothering us at Agritecture: few events - if any - cover the full breadth of agriculture-related solutions. Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 CAFF is a California-based membership organization that includes family farmers and other community members passionate about local food, farming, and the environment.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters, and importers in international markets.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

This year our farm trials will test the use of the Global Farm Metric framework to enable farmers and others to navigate the complex world of farm sustainability, so that they can support and drive change. The trials will also explore the value of assessing vital aspects of farm sustainability that are sometimes overlooked.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

My partner in our farm, Robbie Jaffe, and I have been very involved in trying to speak for the Cuyama Valley community, defending the science of groundwater depletion and our personal experience as farmers and community-members. I am a professional agroecologist trained in ecosystem processes with experience in sustainable agriculture.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

The top 1 percent of world’s largest farms now control 70 percent of land, leaving smaller-scale farmers behind. Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology. Approximately 87 percent of these land grabs occurred in regions of high biodiversity.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

But as Civil Eats’ reporting has shown, the food and agriculture system is full of examples of how farmers, ranchers, fishers, chefs, restaurants, grocery stores, and consumers are addressing climate change, with strategies that sequester carbon, slash emissions, save water, reduce plastics, and open new markets.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this article, Global Farm Metric Trials Manager, Olivia Boothman, shares her experience of visiting Nebraska on behalf of Regen10. Regen10 is a coalition of organisations working together to accelerate the transition to regenerative agriculture. Agriculture is clearly the industry of the state – and industrial is the agriculture!

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

In January 2022, SHI launched Promoter 4 Change, a farmer-to-farmer training program creating rural climate resilience, biodiversity, and new economic opportunities through sustainable farming practices. Crop failure and low yields, in turn, have exacerbated political instability, poverty, and migration. million trees.

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