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2024: A Year in Review

Sustainable Harvest International

Farmers in the Honduras TREE program participate in a workshop at a community greenhouse. 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.

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

Food Tank

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. For example, the agrochemical company, Yara, is constructing a CCS plant with ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies next to its ammonia plant.

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

Civil Eats

and 8 percent of Californias greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from croplands, industrial vehicles, and livestock. 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.