Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In Kenya, small dairy producers are cultivating new grasses that boost milk production and may reduce methane emissions from their cows, while also improving soil health. His farming operation benefited too, with a diverse array of vegetables, fruits, and grains now flourishing in his fields. But they can’t do it alone.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Sugarcane cultivation (left) and natural ecosystem (right) in Santa Martha Transforming Agriculture SHI partnering farms utilize organic farming practices that help to restore the soil and other local ecosystems. After years of intensive sugarcane cultivation, the soil needs lots of organic matter in order to heal.

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ATTRA

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, we tend to restrict ourselves to greens cultivated primarily for their leaves, leaving them susceptible to bolting in high temperatures or losing leaves to disease. Carrot Tops Carrots originated in Persia and were cultivated for their aromatic leaves and seeds. They are boiled and cooked and used in various recipes.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A farmer then cultivates that plot of land before leaving it fallow for seven-to-ten-year cycles. According to the Swedbio report, there are some 207 food crops cultivated in the rotational farming system used by Hin Lad Nai. Transition periods between active to fallow land are also accompanied by spiritual rituals.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

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. Tostad says “it’s super crucial to always be very context-specific, and not even country-specific, but soil-specific.”

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Sign the petition #EndIt” Learn more about global efforts: via Global Alliance for the Future of Food — “Food systems account for at least 15% of global fossil fuel use each year To tackle the climate, biodiversity, & health crises, we need to transition away from industrial #FoodSystems to agroecology and regenerative agriculture.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the spirit of this annual theme, sorghum cultivation was recently explored in depth at the Global Sorghum Conference in Montpellier, France, in early June. Food and Agriculture Organization. Sorghum, which belongs to the larger family of millets, is one such nutritious, Indigenous staple crop for West Africa.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Their shells are harder and thicker than those of the English walnut, the most common commercially cultivated species, and are difficult to separate from the kernel within. Their hulls cling tenaciously to the nut and, as Holt’s hands attest, stain almost everything they touch.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We can fund a farm to switch from hay to grain cultivation, which requires new equipment, new storage, and new drying facilities,” she added. “In For this reason, McBrady adds, some farms are being encouraged to switch to grains, which are less likely to absorb PFAS. “We

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Transitioning the global food system toward more regenerative and agroecological approaches would cost somewhere around US$250–430 billion per year—a high number, yes, but it’s less than 5 percent of the hidden costs of global food and ag systems. Some of the world’s highest emitters, including the U.S., Let’s look at the numbers.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Positive momentum and a strong financial position enabled SHI to expand its core programs by hiring new field trainers, start several pilot projects, and cultivate new partnerships, all according to the organization’s scaling up vision as outlined in the Million Farm Transformation and operationalized in a board-approved strategic plan through 2025.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. “The goal is to cultivate at least a thousand plants there, creating a kind of repository for the seven varieties,” he explains, detailing his vision for preserving vanilla and, by extension, safeguarding the heritage of his Chinantec culture.

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

SHI’s effectiveness and breadth of impact was driven home during a board trip to Panama in early 2020, when we met with a number of communities in various stages of SHI’s 5-year intensive agroecology training program. ” — David Shaw, Member of SHI’s Advisory Council and prominent U.S.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2023

The Burgers are among a modest cohort of small-time growers who almost exclusively cultivate cool-weather and storage crops that they sell in the wintertime. Hachmyer teaches agroecology part-time at nearby Sonoma State University). Last month, she even took a vacation. “I

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beans have been cultivated across the globe for thousands of years and continue to form an essential part of healthy diets and agricultural incomes in many regions of the world. 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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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

A 2020-21 survey conducted by DFWT recorded greater use of the uncropped fields for habitat and hunting by raptors and the endangered Great Blue Pacific Heron, compared to cultivated fields. Now, they absorb up to 16 inches of rain per hour,” says Jack Algiere, director of agroecology at Stone Barn.

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Dedicated to cultivating a thriving local food economy and sustainable farming sector, Just Food integrates agroecology-based conservation with land stewardship. Emphasizing agroecology and land stewardship, the farm champions local food sovereignty and transforms newcomers into farmers through its Start-up Farm Program.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

A long list of other states, meanwhile, have banned the word “meat” from cultivated meat packaging. Italy became the first country to criminalize cultivated meat in 2023, as well as banning the use of words like burger and sausage on packaging for alternative proteins. In actuality, cultivated meat is not that mysterious.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Could cultivating it offer me an opportunity to make up for all that had not passed down to me?” Meanwhile, in the U.S., We no longer trembled with fear.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If But whatever its judgment, the US-Mexican dispute has put a needed spotlight on mounting global concern about the consolidation of a food system dominated by a handful of biotech and chemical firms.

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This creates instability in the cultivation and overall supply and distribution of food, which affects human and environmental health. Rural communities are vital to US agriculture, since they are home to most of the land under cultivation and provide much of the workforce for the agriculture sector.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) , United States By cultivating a network of producers across the state of Iowa, PFI is working to build resilient farms and communities.

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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. The organization provides insights, cultivates collaborations, and accelerates innovation to drive systems-level change in the food industry.

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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. Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As a movement, folks organizing for food and farm justice have long imagined and cultivated systems that exist beyond and outside of a political system that was never designed for life to thrive. Most of those forward-looking goals will have to be pared back.

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