Agroecology Crop Finance 
Food Tank
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Not only are these markets a good fit for smallholder farmers who practice agroecology , but they are also more equitable and accessible for women and youth.
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
This is the first part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. And efforts to make food systems more nature positive, including through agroecology, must be integral to each.
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Food Tank
DECEMBER 1, 2023
We need to rethink our food systems and transition to diversified agroecological systems that can ensure we address this twin challenge, and to provide nutritious diets to a growing population without destroying the planet. This way, soils store more organic carbon especially when cover crops are combined with no-till management.
Food Tank
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Initially, farmers and corporations alike wade into the shallow end, implementing relatively simple and inexpensive techniques such as cover cropping and minimal tillage to optimize for soil health and carbon sequestration. In the deep end, outcomes are sought to benefit the farmers and stewards of whole landscapes themselves.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. The History of US Seed Breeding For most of the history of domesticated crops, those who grew crops saved seeds from one growing season to the next.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 29, 2023
Earlier this year, the Carbon Harvest partners wrapped up an agroforestry pilot program that helped four local farms, including Good Wheel, integrate trees with their crops and livestock. They’re going to be much larger-scale than the average farm, and they need to have very simple cropping systems.”
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
MAY 20, 2024
Yet, without defined priorities or target recipients, the program may inevitably lend itself to financing large-scale operations rather than serve as a new capital product for small, scaling, or new local operations. Yet even incentives to insure added specialty crop plans are poised to serve only industrial specialty crop farms. (
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