National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. 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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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Importantly, many farmers also argue that profitability can be significantly increased due to lowered reliance on expensive chemical inputs, thanks to techniques such as crop rotation, holistic grazing, and cover cropping that can add nutrients back to the soil.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

CONTENT SOURCED FROM JUST FOOD Written by: David Burrows January 27, 2023 Danone ’s greenhouse gas emissions are around 26MtCo2e, and agriculture accounts for 61% of them. Some firms are already buying a broader range of crops from farmers to incentivize these changes, says Bande at Quantis. By the end of last year, 19.7%

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic.

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