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We Can’t Achieve Food Justice if We Don’t Prioritize Soil Health

Food Tank

Farmers can use techniques like no-till growing, cover cropping, rotational grazing and planting, and implementing other buffers against erosion. “We farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. And they’re pushing innovation.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations. Rotating crops also significantly reduces pests and diseases.