ATTRA
APRIL 30, 2024
Climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices and principles. Utilize Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge, where applicable. Projects must address one or more of the following priorities: Local natural resource concerns.
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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
This year’s announcement for Classic CIG included three priority areas: climate-smart agriculture with two subcategories; Combating Invasive Species; Conservation in Urban Agriculture Systems. Forestry : Forests play a significant role in reducing carbon dioxide through carbon sequestration. They use energy directly (e.g.,
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. For example, reducing tillage and maintaining in-field residues can reduce the losses of carbon dioxide and may reduce nitrous oxide emissions.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 29, 2023
million tons of offsets purchased by Microsoft in fiscal year 2021–22, for example, were tied to forestry initiatives. (A The Carbon Harvest team isn’t aware of a local agricultural carbon credit market being developed anywhere else in the country. agriculture. Verification is another challenge.
ATTRA
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Cities have many regulations when it comes to urban agriculture projects, but they also might have resources that they can contribute. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, National Agroforestry Center, under the authority of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978. Communicate with the city or county often.
Modern Farmer
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Ironically, our relatively recent “hands off” approach to forestry is creating exactly the wrong kinds of conditions for oaks to thrive. “We It’s a money-maker for the forestry industry. But it’s also incredibly important ecologically. But as logging ramped up and controlled burning fell, oaks began to suffer.
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