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Monetizing Sustainability: The business case for carbon sequestration

Cropaia

Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost. It can improve soil health and fertility, leading to healthier and more productive crops, and can also increase crop yields.

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These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps. Does That Make Them Better?

Civil Eats

Those systems are expensive, often dangerous for workers , and are associated with a bevy of problems, including propping up industrial-scale agriculture. We are very reliant on our neighbors and the people in our communities who value agriculture and have decided to let us farm their grandpa’s old farm.

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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

Credit: WIRED/Getty Images Editor’s Note: “Rurbanization” is the concept of incorporating green space, particularly agricultural space, into cities, and it could have a positive impact on food security in urban areas. Recent research has begun to provide data on how well urban agriculture actually works if you’re planning to, you know, eat.