Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

The food system is responsible for an estimated one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions driving this crisis. Another 38 percent comes from retail consumption and waste; and the rest is from industrial inputs (like pesticides and fertilizer) and agriculture production. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits.

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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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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. Boochcraft partners with The Ecology Center for the advancement of regenerative agriculture.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

This blog originally appeared here on the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) website, and is re-posted here with permission. CalCAN is a member of NSAC and played a part in developing the original version of the Agriculture Resilience Act. Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Moving from daytime to overnight work is often presented as the most practical solution for agricultural laborers struggling with rising temperatures as a result of climate change. By 2050, without cuts to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions (known as the business-as-usual scenario), that portion will jump to 39 percent.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. agricultural land use and its interactions with our nation’s land and water resources.

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Food Tank

JUNE 5, 2024

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) is a Nairobi-based research institute that elevates the role insects play in the creation of environmentally and socially sustainable food systems across Africa. Founded in 1970, icipe aims to understand how insects can best be introduced across the food system.

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Civil Eats

JULY 15, 2024

BK Rot is part of a diverse ecology of community compost organizations throughout New York City. Often, the methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is simply flared into the atmosphere. Thanks to careful management, even on this balmy day the steaming heaps of rotting vegetables didn’t give off an offensive odor. “I

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the last few years of the Small Farm Innovation Challenge hosted by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), a remarkable trio of women—Cole Bush, Lindsey Lusher Shute, and Rachel Greathouse—emerged as leaders in advancing agricultural technology. Curious to learn more about Rachel?

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Climate Change Resource Center recognizes agroforestry, the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into agricultural practices, as a promising option to weave productivity and profitability into sustainable and resilient farming systems. and Champaign, Ill.

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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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Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Take Indian Line Farm, for instance: when founder Robyn Van En died unexpectedly in 1997, that farm could have easily been sold as another second, third or fourth home in the Berkshires, and a prime, fertile tract of bottomland for local agriculture would have been lost. HVS: What are the roadblocks here?

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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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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. from U.C.

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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. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

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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. Energy Conservation : Agricultural producers typically rely on a range of energy sources. They use energy directly (e.g.,

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

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. Chemical-dependent agriculture is a fossil fuel hungry industry and contributes disproportionately to making our planet unlivable. Among the 12.6

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

But rather than reduce fossil fuel use directly in their supply chains, some choose to offset their pollution by buying “carbon credits” designed to reflect greenhouse gasses taken out of the air elsewhere. The Carbon Harvest team isn’t aware of a local agricultural carbon credit market being developed anywhere else in the country.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In August 2022, Congress passed the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a landmark piece of legislation that provided nearly $20 billion dollars to the United States Department of Agriculture for various programs capable of reducing greenhouse gasses across our food and farm system, including CSP. B000CPL24).

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Good Meat Project , a national nonprofit, is on a mission to catalyze marketplace innovation, connection, and education across the meat supply chain in order to increase the economic viability and ecological impact of livestock farmers who invest in healthy land, animals, and people.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. In 2023, the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production exponentially expanded their efforts to improve access to USDA services among urban, microscale, and innovative growers.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

This helped them buy their first cache of shared equipment: a tiller, a harrow, a manure spreader, a trailer to move equipment between farms, and a log splitter for heating greenhouses with wood. Every year, they pool funds to add to their growing collection of tools. A decade later, the collective is still thriving. “We’re

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Caff

JULY 28, 2024

They did so by burning agricultural waste and then smothering it. The repeated application of biochar over many years turned these nutrient-poor soils into fertile agricultural land. These kilns can be tailored to produce biochar with specific properties suited to different soil types and agricultural needs.

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Caff

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, with support from local officials like police, fire, and the County Agricultural Commissioner, Cheetah was able to visit his farm while still under evacuation orders (now known as an Ag/Livestock Pass ), and support the livestock with water and hay deliveries. Cheetah gives a tour of the mushroom growing greenhouses.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Nikita is a co-founder of his own business, AMMG Architects , which focuses on architecture, interior design and agricultural production. He comments, “2017 and 2018 were really the boom period for designers and architects looking at the intersection of technology, agriculture and design.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

López’s family moved to Salton City from Arizona in 2018 when her then-husband got a job working in greenhouses in the Imperial Valley, south of the sea. Agricultural runoff from both valleys is the primary input into the Salton Sea, and with that runoff comes pesticides and nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. In 2002, U.S.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

But the debate embodies the agricultural industry in the era of climate change: As ecosystems shift and extreme weather makes farming even more precarious, ranchers are facing tough decisions about how to adapt their land use practices. “A A functioning grassland with different plants serving different functions. According to U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

NSAC members had the opportunity to participate in plenary, breakout, and panel sessions around key campaign priorities including Climate and Agriculture, the Farm Safety Net, and Resilient Local and Regional Food Systems, engage in racial equity caucusing, and solidify commitments for grassroots action.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

Improving the health of soils, particularly on agricultural land, enables them to be more productive, to host more lifeforms and to sequester more carbon, making soil health a critical factor in our response to climate change and biodiversity loss. These markets can be voluntary or compliance based.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s being proposed for an area of mostly wetlands and open agricultural land on the Far East Side. The project’s planners, Bt Farms Foundation , is a diverse team led by Black women with expertise in design, landscape architecture and urban planning, urban agriculture, ecology, geography, real estate, finance and engineering.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This guest post by Michael Happ, Program Associate for Climate and Rural Communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, (IATP), discusses how popular conservation programs should focus on small-scale and sustainable farms, not industrial-scale farms. as it relates to EQIP.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. The areas most affected by deforestation tend to be in the Amazonian foothills, where the agricultural frontier is increasingly encroaching the jungle. Image by Antonio Paz.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Through careful observation of land and climate, Jenna and Thomas have gradually built two cabins, a greenhouse, an organic market garden, and apiary. Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. RR2CS: As a woman of colour, what is your take on the Regenerative Agriculture movement?

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

While many sustainability assessments focus on the impacts that farms have on people and planet beyond the farm gate (for example, the contribution of farm greenhouse gas emissions to global warming), less attention is focused on the need to ensure that future generations can meet their needs for farm products, in particular, food.

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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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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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