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From Civil Rights to Food Justice, Jim Embry Reflects on a Life of Creative Resistance

Civil Eats

He invited me to spend the summer in New York City in 1968 working construction. There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. It seemed like the whole world was in New York City.

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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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2024: A Year in Review

Sustainable Harvest International

Volunteers beautified schools, constructed greenhouses, planted tree nurseries, and helped prepare gardens for SHI family farmers. New Initiatives In October 2024, a documentary on SHIs agroecology efforts in Central America premiered. Yale Alumni Service Corps volunteers join traditional celebrations with SHIs Panama program.

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Breaking the Chain: CIEL’s Battle to Unravel the Fossil Fuel Grip on Our Food System

Food Tank

For example, the agrochemical company, Yara, is constructing a CCS plant with ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies next to its ammonia plant. Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Focus on Solutions Although there are clear, negative impacts for agriculture, the agriculture chapter effectively lays out the ways in which agriculture can respond constructively to increasing challenges. In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes.

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‘The Avocado Debate’: Can organic labelling make a difference?

Sustainable Food Trust

They might farm in an agroecological manner…that would mean that they meet the organic standards, but they cannot afford to undergo the process to have that legally recognised. For many small-scale farmers, particularly in the Global South, this process is out of reach. The World Avocado Organization maintains that this is the case.

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California Decides What ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ Means. Sort of.

Civil Eats

You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic. She says she sees this definition as a starting point, as someplace from which to constructively move forward. Secretary Ross said we need to define this so we can have money to reward the practices.