National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Farm Bill Reauthorization As of posting, we anticipate that Congress will finish 2024 with yet another extension of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). Agriculture Appropriations We engaged throughout the annual appropriations funding process for critical existing food, agriculture, and nutrition programs.

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Organic Farming Research

MARCH 18, 2025

Explore the deep connection between Indigenous cultures and land stewardship, and how the Indigenous food sovereignty movement seeks to reclaim traditional ecological knowledge, promote sustainable agriculture, and challenge industrial food systems.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Over six decades, intensive agricultural practices in India have reduced natural capital , including the stock of all-natural assets (land, air, water and biodiversity), from which ecosystem services flow. These are the benefits nature provides to support agriculture and the broader economy. percent in 1947 to 0.4

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 12, 2024

Domestication and the evolution of crops: variable syndromes, complex genetic architectures, and ecological entanglements. If you want to turbo-charge breeding, you need to understand (among other things) the ecological context of domestication. Ok, but ecological knowledge would like a word.

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Caff

JANUARY 7, 2025

Selected from nominations from all over the state, these inspirational change-makers are blazing trails for regenerative agriculture, strengthening our local food systems, and working tirelessly to grow a healthier and more just future for us all.

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Agric4profits

APRIL 16, 2025

The contribution of horticultural and floricultural crops to total agricultural production in the country is significant due to the highly favorable and varied agro-ecological diversities. The cultivation of horticultural crops is predominantly dependent… Read More » Horticultural Tools and Machinery in Agriculture

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Real Agriculture

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Tenuta is the senior industrial research chair in 4R nutrient management and professor of soil ecology at the University of Manitoba, Read More Mario Tenuta sees when he looks ahead to where Canada is moving with nitrogen mangement. Mario Tenuta sees when he looks ahead to where Canada is moving with nitrogen mangement.

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USDA Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

During Native American Heritage Month, USDA Science recognizes the invaluable contributions that Native American employees have made in advancing agricultural science and innovation that benefits us all.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2024

Farmers and ranchers are responsible for managing the land they own or rent, including ecologically sensitive areas such as riparian areas and wetlands. Read More Farmers and ranchers are responsible for managing the land they own or rent, including ecologically sensitive areas such as riparian areas and wetlands.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On the importance of diversity in ecological research. Actually, the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) could also usefully be applied to agricultural biodiversity. Intensifying agriculture can be good for land sparing, but its sustainability depends on land sharing. Diversity of the research teams, that is.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 24, 2023

Miriam Catalan ’24, ecology and conservation biology major, shares her story Miriam Catalan, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, says her experience as a graduate student has been nontraditional. From being president.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

agricultural community and they require stable and predictable funding to continue their vital work. As you know, orphan programs often address niche or emerging areas within agriculture which may not receive the same level of attention or resources as other larger programs.

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Agric4profits

MARCH 14, 2025

Wildlife management can be simply defined as the application of ecological knowledge to populations of animals (both vertebrates and invertebrates) and their environments in a way that balances the needs of these populations with those of humans.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The world is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainable food systems, and organic agriculture plays a vital role in this movement. They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“We have to fundamentally rethink agriculture. How much agriculture do we want? This means rethinking attitudes toward growth, while recognizing water as a fundamental human right and a source of broader ecological health. In the West, that also means reconsidering our approach to agriculture. It used to be mining.

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EOS

MARCH 28, 2024

Aside from soil health, regenerative agriculture has other ecological and farming benefits. These advantages outweigh the short-term hurdles of the transition.

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Caff

AUGUST 16, 2024

Emma Centeno and Johnny Wilson at The Ecology Center. In this episode we travel to Southern California to meet with Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm in Santa Ana and Johnny Wilson from The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano to talk all about Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, in urban farms. Samuel Guitron of Gospel Swamp Farm.

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

But the climate crisis is altering the ecological conditions that define food flavor, threatening familiar tastes and culinary traditions. Ecological factors such as temperature, soil, rainfall, sun, and pests shape the chemical compounds in food, explains Our Changing Menu.

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Caff

APRIL 15, 2024

Photo Credit Bonnie Veblen As part of CAFF’s Ecological Farming Program , we collaborate with farmers to implement and better understand ecologically-based farming practices, which include climate smart farming and soil health practices.

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American Farmland

JANUARY 9, 2024

AFT is engaged in conducting outreach and education and administering financial and technical assistance for producers in Nueces County, TX, to encourage the adoption of agricultural conservation practices to enhance water quality and restore the beloved Gulf of Mexico.

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Food Politics

APRIL 25, 2024

Read more However, a new study co-authored by Dr Daniel Natusch and Dr Patrick Aust, among others, has suggested that the commercial farming of snakes could help improve agricultural food security and offer a more sustainable alternative to meats such as beef and pork. To meet wide demand, python farming in the U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For those reasons, the ranch is one of 14 operations participating in a three-year study from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Intertribal Agriculture Council (IAC) that is examining the benefits and barriers of regenerative agriculture among Indigenous ranchers and farmers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A similar picture emerges for the NDCs, according to another recent report that analyzes 167 NDCs based on their inclusion of seven categories of innovation in agriculture and food systems. With three COPs (Climate, Biodiversity and Desertification) in one year, 2024 offers an opportunity to better align the Rio Conventions.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A recent report from McKinsey finds that agriculture has the single largest impact on the environment of any economic sector. The report lays out 47 concrete actions that agriculture businesses can take to restore Earth’s ecological balance— while maintaining a positive return-on-investment.

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Organic Farming Research

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The post Protected: Respecting the Roots: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Organic Agriculture appeared first on Organic Farming Research Foundation. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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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 Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Caff

APRIL 5, 2024

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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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Over the last several years, agriculture has stormed onto the climate agenda. Strengthening local economic markets and smallholders access to them creates a mutually generative cycle of food and ecological resilienceessential to strong local incomes and livelihoods. And its about time.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When she moved to Oregon in 2006, she noticed a contrasting lack in access to culturally relevant foods, which has been a driving force behind her decades-long work championing Indigenous food sovereignty through agriculture, advocacy, and activism. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 25, 2024

Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 1. Jackals pee on wild melon relatives and disperse their seeds, not necessarily in that order. Go East, young archaeobotanists! Extinction risk predictions for the world’s flowering plants to support their conservation.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Every day at COP29 here in Baku has a theme to spark discussion and guide action, and today’s is Food, Water and Agriculture. And food and agriculture systems must be part of any big-picture solution. 10:30AM–12:00PM @ the IICA Pavilion: “Food and Agriculture Day.” Today’s the big day! Register HERE.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JUNE 2, 2024

Geospatial evaluation of the agricultural suitability and land use compatibility in Europe’s temperate continental climate region. Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production. I wonder how many of these boxes the studied analysed above ticked.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Mexico border, California’s Imperial Valley is both a desert and an agricultural wonder. This level of agriculture was not possible in the Imperial Valley until the construction of the Alamo Canal , also known as the Imperial Canal, in 1901, which diverted water from the Colorado River. Just north of the U.S.-Mexico

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Food Politics

MARCH 11, 2025

What she caught on to was that you couldnt understand why people eat the way they do and why nutrition works the way it does unless you understand how agriculture production works. I had never heard anyone talk about the need to link agricultural production to nutrition and healthfood systems, we now call thatand it felt revelatory.

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Food Politics

MARCH 10, 2025

What she caught on to was that you couldnt understand why people eat the way they do and why nutrition works the way it does unless you understand how agriculture production works. I had never heard anyone talk about the need to link agricultural production to nutrition and healthfood systems, we now call thatand it felt revelatory.

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AgriLife Today

APRIL 10, 2024

Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology student Skyler Nix shares passion for nature Skyler Nix, a sophomore in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, is a passionate advocate for conservation and biodiversity.

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Agric4profits

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Organic farming is an agricultural method that prioritizes sustainability and ecological balance, avoiding synthetic chemicals and genetically modified organisms.

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