Civil Eats

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Read all the stories in this series: A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland An urban farm trailblazer begins building a Black agrarian corridor in rural Maryland, fostering community and climate resilience. Methane emissions created by flooded rice paddies account for about 10 percent of global agricultural emissions.

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Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

Strips of trees, bushes, grasses, or flowers around agricultural or pasture fields can house higher numbers of small mammals than cropland. The burgeoning human population, however, means agricultural impacts are only set to increase. Agriculture already takes up over half of U.S. Runoff from U.S.

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ATTRA

MARCH 19, 2024

By Garbriella Soto-Velez, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Nestled in the clouds, I found myself on a plane capturing the ethereal beauty of a rainbow descending onto St. Regrettably, only five farmers attended, as the rest were immersed in preparations for the 25th annual Bordeaux Vegan Rasta Agriculture Festival.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

This much-anticipated daylong event, which aims to both promote and protect Oaxaca’s agricultural richness, takes place every year in late November or early December. This year, the fair opened its doors on Saturday, December 2, in the community of San Pablo de Mitla, located about an hour’s drive east of the capital, Oaxaca City.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The majority of the world’s cocoa is sourced from West Africa, often harvested by children on vast plantations linked to widespread deforestation. agriculture. We have a big, audacious goal that organic becomes the norm in agriculture, as opposed to the 2.5 Take chocolate , for instance. Sugar comes with its problems , too.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

The chickens fertilized the trees, ate the grass, and laid eggs. This is such a basic symbiotic relationship, but it is not even part of the conversation in industrial agricultural orthodoxy. That meant he didn’t have to spray for anything. Not only did he eliminate chemical costs, but now he had eggs to sell. anywhere in the world.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. The best way to do that is to start rebuilding agriculture in the Delta, from the dirt up.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2023

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. 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. emissions come from agricultural lands, pasturelands, and unpaved roads.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Read the transcribed version below: THE CONTRIBUTION OF FARMING TO THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT: THE FARMER’S VIEWPOINT BY STEELE ADDISON 6 th November 1985 Agriculture has been severely criticised by the conservation lobby over the last few years. In 1947, the Agriculture Act gave the British farmer price stability for the first time.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Regenerative agricultural practices (and Coffea Stenophylla) could help preserve coffee for years to come. The British had deforested large swaths of land to create industrial-style arabica coffee plantations, turning it into one of the world’s leading coffee producers.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As textile mills began to proliferate, the cotton grown on Southern plantations, which relied on the labor of enslaved people, proved to be a cheaper option than flax. It’s treated, in most cases, with conventional fertilizers and pesticides, and is harvested, processed and made into cloth using huge machinery.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

weve seen a much-needed push toward regenerative and sustainable agriculture to protect the environment and keep farms productive, particularly in the face of climate change. Together, they left the plantation of Richard M. Theyd also seen advertisements promoting the land as vast, vacant, and fertile. In the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

On a crisp weekend this past fall, 30 state legislators from across the nation descended on TomKat Ranch , an 1,800-acre ranch focused on regenerative agriculture in Pescadero, California, an hour south of San Francisco. Attendees at the TomKat Ranch tour organized by the State Innovation Exchange (SiX).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Share this This Story’s Impact 100 million global monthly unique visitors Business Insider Two of the largest palm oil plantations in Peru are located on the west side of the Ucayali River, which flows from the Andes to the Amazon. ” But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price.

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