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. Organic practices enhance soil health and biodiversity, foster resource regeneration, and help mitigate and build resilience to climate change. For the FY25 budget, NIFA is suggested a $3.5

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In recent years, curbing emissions from agriculture and the broader food system has become a bigger piece of the conference’s programming. And this year, the most influential group in American agriculture has been pointing to big strides made. In response, the American Farm Bureau’s president, Zippy Duvall, attributed the shift to U.S.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 31, 2025

Vertical farms take advantage of old buildings and state-of-the-art greenhouses to produce food in a small amount of space. Instead, theyre taking shape in greenhouses located in dense urban areas and in shipping containers at schools and workplaces. Despite what many think, these farms arent necessarily filling skyscrapers.

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NASDA

MARCH 25, 2025

By extension, this rulemaking would provide the necessary regulatory and legal certainty to continue to support product market access for farmers, other pesticide users, and applicators. We urge EPA to grant the state AG petition and initiate rulemaking on this matter and appreciate the opportunity to comment.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Food systems generate US$20 trillion of social, human and environmental costs per year , dwarfing their US$9 trillion market value. 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.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the United States, the vast majority–84 percent, according to Audubon–of grasslands are privately owned and managed for agriculture. Maddie Jorden, Director of Marketing at Ranchlands, understands that cattle provide necessary ecosystem services in the absence of native bison. Become a member today by clicking here.

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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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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Written by: Djavid Amidi-Abraham September 13, 2023 Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is a rapidly growing segment of the farming industry. I hear this time and time again: “We looked at systems available on the market, but they're very expensive and we think we can do it cheaper.”

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NASDA

JUNE 28, 2024

Comment Re: Greenhouse Gas Technical Assistance Provider and Third-Party Verifier Program Request for Information (RIN 0581-AE29) Dear Administrator Summers: NASDA appreciates the opportunity to respond to the U.S. territories. NASDA supports the recommendations and comments related to this request for information filed by FACA.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Asheville-based initiative seeks to mitigate climate change by helping farmers establish, monitor, and verify carbon sequestration through tactics like agroforestry in the Southern Appalachians, in hopes of creating the country’s first regional carbon market. It’s a potentially lucrative opportunity.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 24, 2023

On Agritecture Designer , you can compare CapEx, OpEx, and yields from vertical farms, greenhouses, or container farms to discover which would be best for your idea and local market. Agritecture’s consulting team is a big fan of greenhouses, which have a long history of commercial and private success.

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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. We’re growing this for our people,” Schreiner affirms. “I

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2025

Crop insurance is the cornerstone of the farm safety net, insuring farms for losses from unpredictable weather, market fluctuations, and other risks. The 2022 Census of Agriculture revealed that 369,393 farm operations had crop insurance, covering a total of 298 million acres. of all farms with cropland, up from 25.8%

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Food Politics

JANUARY 16, 2024

I’ve seen statements and studies on both sides of the argument and I’m having a hard time determining what is supported science vs wishful thinking or greenwashing marketing hype. But the study delves into a more comprehensive analysis, considering factors beyond direct greenhouse gas emissions. Links to 2 difference examples below).

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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. Theyve got their eyes on one: the food system.

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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These agricultural practices have developed in tandem with government and market incentivisation that promote increasingly processed diets high in sugar, fat and processed meat. It also helps regulate erosion, influences climate through greenhouse gas exchange and sustains human societies by enabling food and livestock production.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Greenhouses in the sky “C ustomers love knowing that we are supporting sustainable methods to expand urban agriculture while being able to offer produce that is fresh and hyper-local,” says Jinah Kim, store team leader at the Third and 3rd Whole Foods in Brooklyn, NY.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 5, 2024

Although the food system generates one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions , it has largely been excluded from the climate agendas of most governments. Department of Agriculture are crafting policies that support local food systems and regenerative agriculture. And lawmakers and the U.S. Will It Scale Up?

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

COPs are historically where key climate decisions are made, such as the Kyoto Protocol, in which signing parties agreed to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to the goal of keeping warming to 1.5 Also in attendance are policymakers, NGOs, lobbyists, scientists and more. degrees Celsius.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

2023 Report Agriculture Highlights By The Numbers ● Denali’s recycling efforts produced enough natural fertilizer to support more than 100,000 acres of farmland and manufactured enough animal feed to nourish over 40,000 cattle across five states. The report also notes the company collected 1.7 According to US EPA calculations, converting 1.3

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ATTRA

JANUARY 15, 2025

USDA has published an interim rule on Technical Guidelines for Climate-Smart Agriculture Crops Used as Biofuel Feedstocks that establishes guidelines for quantifying, reporting, and verifying the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of corn, soy, and sorghum.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more.

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Food Tank

MARCH 21, 2025

The 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit underscored the interlinkages between nutrition, agriculture and climate resilience. Preliminary research estimates that the world’s food systems cost account around three times the market value of food, with health externalities weighing the heaviest. According to the U.N.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 12, 2025

Additionally, these tools will help identify potential partners, enabling the expansion of our programs and offering sustainable agriculture training to more family farmers. These partners assist TREE participants in diversifying their agri-food systems and evaluating potential organic products for the market.

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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. Overall the ethanol market has had an effect on the price of corn as well as on other crops.

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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. agricultural landscape and the policies that are most closely aligned with incentivizing its creation. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

By Cody Brown and Darron Gaus , NCAT Agriculture Specialists Carbon Farm Planning is a rewarding process for producers and conservation planners, as we “dig deep” and find all the potential carbon sinks and soil health practices that can be implemented across the landscape. Designed by Colorado State University, in partnership with the U.S.

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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Upon leaving her family farm to study agriculture at Stanford, she took up a work-study program investigating the economic viability of grass-fed beef. “It The market for grass-fed beef continues to grow. For Cory Carman, choosing to raise cattle outside of the feedlot system always seemed intuitive.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million acres of corn and 10 million acres of soybeans, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Information. That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. In 2022, Iowa farmers harvested 12.4

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By These include economic pressures, consumer preferences and lobbying by large agricultural corporations. Founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in the Bay Area of California, Cream Co.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

An Illinois-based processing facility successfully completed its first run of climate-smart soybeans this fall, marking a significant milestone in the initiative to bring climate-smart commodities to market. Department of Agriculture Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities grant. And this is only the beginning,” Goeser said.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 12, 2023

AGRIVI teams up with ReddAgro, a pioneering Agri-Tech company specializing in delivering precision farming, greenhouse control and automation, and agricultural supply chain management solutions. Both ReddAgro and AGRIVI share a vision of a more sustainable and efficient agricultural future.

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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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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” She’s also put millions of philanthropic dollars into a demonstration farm in Oregon.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Beyond Loleta, Jersey Scoops’ rainbow-labeled pints are making waves at local farmers’ markets, stores, and restaurants. The PCC DBII is one of four such initiatives across the country, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has funneled billions in tax dollars toward farming that it deems climate-smart. It is important that we embrace the notion of climate-smart agriculture and forestry, but to do that, we’ve got to get the science and the innovation right. But what exactly that means is widely disputed.

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