ATTRA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Increase the efficiency and reduce labor costs of seeding transplant trays in your greenhouse with this self-built vacuum seeder. Increase the efficiency and reduce labor costs of seeding transplant trays in your greenhouse with this self-built vacuum seeder. Department of Agriculture.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2024

For example, livestock production, fertilizer use and deforestation for farm expansion exacerbate greenhouse gas emissions. Tanzania launched its National Ecological Organic Agriculture Strategy in November 2023, Kenya its National Agroecology Strategy in November 2024, and countries like Uganda and Zambia will soon follow suit, noted Fegert.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

As those paying attention to agriculture know, climate impacts have become increasingly apparent since the last assessment was published in 2018. The NCA5 covers a lot of ground, but this summary focuses on aspects most relevant to agriculture.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Ho`la Farms, a small nonprofit on Hawaii Island, aims to use agriculture to help veterans rebuild a sense of purpose in their lives. Agriculture is a powerful tool for personal healing and community building, the farms co-founder Emily Emmons tells Food Tank.

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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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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

In normal years and in dry years, California agriculture, industry, and households draw more groundwater than we should. Agriculture is the main water user in California by far, accounting for 80% of the water use in the state. Example of cropland within and one mile around several rural disadvantaged communities in Tulare County.

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Food Tank

JUNE 19, 2024

Food Tank is rounding up 20 podcasts that take listeners on a journey of food and agriculture systems around the world. A podcast from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Farms. Recent episode topics include healthy school meals, gender inequality in rural communities, and the cost of malnutrition.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 9, 2024

The report’s findings are based on a broad review of 85 scientific studies from around the world conducted over the last three decades on the health and environmental impacts of organic produce and agriculture. Finally, the higher premiums associated with organic products enhance farmers’ livelihoods and boost rural economies.

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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. 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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Food Tank

AUGUST 2, 2024

For agricultural workers, the risk of heat-related mortality is as much as 35 times higher than in other industries, according to an analysis in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. When policymakers and leaders say they want to support rural communities and working folks, we have to hold them accountable.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel. The 2018 Farm Bill authorized a new Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUAIP) whose mission is to encourage and promote urban, indoor, and other innovative agricultural practices.

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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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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It can also promote healthier soil, reduce pest problems, and boost rural economies. Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course. Diversifying into a new product also means finding a market for it.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. He also passed on a significant stake in Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with $611.3

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

Since taking over the dairy a decade ago and branding it Foggy Bottoms Boys , the couple has been bucking convention and helping their rural community navigate changing economic tides. 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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 8, 2024

Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday, March 26 at Great River Milling in Fountain City. “It's It's an opportunity to create a different narrative about American agriculture: it's innovative and committed to sustainability." Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Let’s take a look at what this means for agriculture. The increased globalization of the food system over the past 50 years has spread the false narrative to many governments and businesses that a one-size-fits-all conventional approach to agriculture is the solution to food insecurity. Let’s look at some examples.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Written by: Isabelle Dom Across the world of ESG investing, SDG impact, and climate change mitigation, a consistent omission has been bothering us at Agritecture: few events - if any - cover the full breadth of agriculture-related solutions. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Rufino Vargas walked along the border of his greenhouse, on the westside of Detroit this summer, collecting chili peppers. Ortega Urban Farms, which Vargas built from scratch over two decades on a pair of vacant lots, is a labor of love rooted in his rural childhood, where agricultural techniques were part of the family lore.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Last year, in the lead-up to COP27, the biggest global convening on climate change, many groups worked to call attention to the fact that governments and businesses were not doing nearly enough to address food and agriculture in their plans to tackle the crisis.

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Agritecture Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Written by: Sarah Jordan June 15, 2023 Renewable energy has the potential to significantly improve indoor agriculture by providing climate-smart power sources to farmers. The most likely use for wind farms in CEA is powering greenhouses or vertical farms in more rural and coastal areas. Credit: AZoM. Credit: NPR.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Governments are still failing to recognize food systems as a critical lever for change—despite food systems pumping out one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate chaos decimating harvests and slowing productivity. Industrial agriculture and associated land-use changes are the biggest drivers of food system emissions.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

They grow a wide range of field and greenhouse vegetables and herbs, and sell their organic produce to customers through a summer and fall Farm Share program , and as well, at Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmer’s Market. Instead, they began learning about regenerative agriculture practices and the importance of soil health.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Short-term cash aid can be really helpful in building sustainable livelihoods in agriculture among rural farmers, refugees, and potentially vulnerable communities—but we need to pair it with financial education and policy support, too. And, as always, we need to see greater coordination and cross-silo work. Register HERE.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Luz Ballesteros and Darron Gaus, NCAT Agriculture Specialists Farmers and ranchers are weather watchers—we begin the day by turning on the local news or checking our apps for the weather highs, humidities, and chances of rain. You can read more in our Climate Primer. The increasing heat causes stress for all of us. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Last week’s post highlighted the stories of farmers who have used practices from the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry practice list to build climate resilience and mitigation solutions. This week’s post adds stories created and gathered by National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) members around the country.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The farm also teaches local students about agriculture and conservation—and donates much of the fruits and vegetables it grows to people in need. In rural Mariposa County, where many large, historic ranches have been replaced by smaller residential parcels that can easily get overgrown, Happy Goat provides help.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

Department of Agriculture published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with the methods and tools needed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of their operations.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced a new Green Fertilizer Grant Program that will support agricultural and rural electric cooperatives to invest in green fertilizer manufacturing.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That’s good for rural communities as well as the planet.” Producers interested in learning more can visit the Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership website (fiberpartnership.ncat.org) and fill out an interest form.

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Food Tank

JULY 7, 2023

In support of Goal 3, to build modern, efficient, and resilient supply chains: The City is recognizing the power of urban agriculture. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is investing in urban farms on its properties and recently appointed Qiana Mickie as the City’s first Urban Agriculture Executive Director.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 28, 2024

Produced by Ecotone Analytics, Friends of the Mississippi River, and the Forever Green Partnership, Putting Down Roots offers an assessment of CLC cropping systems, detailing the significant beneficial impacts they can have on waterways and rural economies.

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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.

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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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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas – 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in driving global warming over a 20-year time span. For 12 years, we have worked alongside farmers to make a real, quantifiable impact on greenhouse gas emissions while improving the air quality in rural communities,” said Grant Zimmerman, CEO of Amp Americas.

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