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Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up

Modern Farmer

Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. He says scientists at his university are exploring adaptation mechanisms and how to make the plant more resistant to high temperatures in Veracruz, the place of origin of vanilla. Huberto Juan Martinez uses organic fertiliser/compost at his plantation.

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Path to a New Farm Bill: Sustainable and Organic Research 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.

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