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.

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Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in regenerative agriculture, a holistic approach to farming that seeks to restore and revitalize the land while improving crop yields and overall farm profitability. This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Okra Leaves Bush okra or jute mallows are thick, succulent leaves that yield a slimy sauce like okra pods. As farmers who work in unpredictable climates, we know the importance of growing a diverse range of foods and harvesting various parts to make up for times when cash crops are scarce.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Better yet, why do some researchers, farmers and activists prefer the term “urban agroecology?” From 2017 to 2019, my research team helped to define and elevate “urban agroecology” in the US as a better way of acknowledging the multifunctional benefits of urban green spaces. However, when you divide a large number (i.e.,

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil. As part of its efforts to foster a new crop of farmers, earlier this y ear, the USDA announced it would be investing $262.5 It’s truly full circle.”

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since 2017, the cooperative has been piloting new ways to collect, process, and market tree crops, with the goal of catalyzing a local nut-based economy. Mockernut and shagbark hickories, when pounded and simmered in water, yield a milk Holt describes as “liquid banana-nut bread.” nut production became concentrated in California.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They also embraced crop diversity by adopting traditional crops, including hardier, more nutritious varieties that had been orphaned by modern agriculture demands. In Kansas, some annual row crop farmers are pioneering perennial crops to counter the impacts of yearly plowing that has depleted their soils. In the U.S.,

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

Environmental stressors to crops—decreased and erratic rainfall, pests, and blights—are worsening with climate change. Generational wisdom dictates that certain crops are better suited for certain regions. Generational wisdom dictates that certain crops are better suited for certain regions. Food and Agriculture Organization.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The need for greater access to land, so that younger generations can have a role in equitable and accessible food production – most particularly in agroecological food production – is critical and demands that we find new pathways beyond ownership to invite their participation. Benton’s assertion of the need to include some ‘high-yield’ (i.e.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Poor soils can cut crop yields by up to 50 percent—which, if we’re not careful, could result in more soil being tilled to grow more crops, which degrades more soil, which pushes us closer to climate catastrophe. And that has direct impacts on our food supply and climate. We’re seeing the power of storytelling, too.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals the folly of a global food system where a few staple crops are produced in a select few countries. The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. Similar results were published in The Lancet in April 2022. Among the 12.6

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability. In cropping systems, it may include increasing structural diversity of the crops themselves, as by having cut and uncut strips of alfalfa.

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

Crop failure and low yields, in turn, have exacerbated political instability, poverty, and migration. Partnering with nearly 1,000 farming families in Honduras, SHI has helped restore over 8,000 acres of land by promoting agroecological practices, including the planting of over 2.2 million trees.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 1, 2023

These severe conditions have a tremendous impact on our food system, affecting everything from crop yields to working conditions on farms. Perennial Crops Boost Biodiversity Both On and Off Farms. The group is working to adapt more food crops to the changing climate. Researchers Explain How.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Paula Boles says sometimes they’d intentionally bring you a “bad flock,” keeping your yields low and locking you into the bottom rung of the tournament system. “If If you’re choosing to grow a different crop, a big obstacle is the learning curve—all forms of farming require specialized knowledge that makes changing lanes difficult.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Trees, they say, can protect farm animals from wind and sun, prevent erosion, stabilize streambanks, and yield marketable products like fruit and nuts. 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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

This approach is misguided given the ample evidence that scale-neutral, management-intensive practices likely yield even greater environmental benefits. Yet even incentives to insure added specialty crop plans are poised to serve only industrial specialty crop farms. ( 7503, 7123).

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

Last month, Wales had its hottest and driest June on record, which is not ideal when water is such a critical asset to growing their crops. Natural water courses are present on the farm but are not accessible where the crops are grown. Diversity is the key,” says Nathan – there is value in having a lot of different crops in the ground.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-Based Solutions Coffee crops grow alongside other plants in what is known as an Agroforestry approach to farming. More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Currently, CSP only offers SAPs for Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , Improved Resource Conserving Crop Rotations , and Advanced Grazing Management.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We met with four inspiring farmers who are going against the grain (pun intended – Nebraska’s main crop is corn) and adopting regenerative agriculture practices. In a sea of conventional (read ‘intensive’) farms, what made these farmers turn their backs on the practices which they know work well to produce high yields?

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

The soil quality may not support crops or the land may not have appropriate water drainage. The cost of trying to create viable conditions for growing can be enormous and may not be worth the expense or the crop it might produce. Obviously, farming crops and rangelands are not compatible,” she says.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prioritizing ecological integrity and community health over yield, these farmers stay profitable by diversifying their crops, producing value-added products like jams and sauces, and building community support and social capital.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

In our farming systems, they play a key role in regenerative crop rotations: breaking pest and weed cycles, fixing nitrogen in the soil and creating fertile ground for the crops that follow them. The most widely grown bean crop in the UK is the fava bean, with 188,000 hectares used for their cultivation in 2021.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

xiii] Yields are dropping, with large proportions of the UK’s soils moderately or severely degraded. xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. xxxix] [xl] [xli] Including temporary leys in crop rotations across the UK’s arable area could sequester c.2.2

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Regenerative agriculture can cover a vast array of approaches and systems but it is based around five principles: don’t disturb the soil; keep the soil surface covered; keep living roots in the soil; grow a diverse range of crops; and bring grazing animals back to the land. “If

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RR2CS

JULY 18, 2023

Have you ever found yourself scratching your head trying to make sense of all those terms like polycultures, cocktail crops, intercropping, cover crops, companion cropping, and relay crops? It’s understandable! Oh, and let’s not forget our personal favorite—agricultural climate solutions. It's understandable!

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Farmers need to have annual inspections to demonstrate delivery against those standards, ranging from controlled pesticide usage to crop rotations and natural fertiliser usage. For products to be certified as organic, they must meet a series of standards that are set and audited by certification bodies (CBs).

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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.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here are some of the key takeaways I gleaned from my review of Chapter 11 of NCA 5 : “Weather whiplash” is already hurting US agriculture Extreme weather events like floods, droughts, and heat waves, along with altered precipitation patterns, have affected agriculture by negatively impacting productivity, and made crop yields much less predictable.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology across the continent. Crop Trust , International Crop Trust is dedicated to preserving plant genetic diversity to secure agricultural, food, and nutrition sustainability.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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