Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2025

Irrigation and farm equipment also depend on fossil fuels. Mismanaged farm waste on CAFOs has a climate toll as well, responsible for as much as 7 percent of global farming emissions. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth post in a multi-part series exploring some of the key sustainable agriculture and food systems challenges that the farm bill can address. Other posts explore how the next farm bill can tackle issues in regional market development, crop insurance access, and more. Since 1988, more than $26.6

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. Jean-Baptiste has been working with smallholder farmers across the country to promote agroecology as a solution to hunger and poverty for four decades. Hunger in Haiti is not an accident.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) recently awarded the 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize to the Black Dirt Farm Collective and Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP). Mouvman Peyizan Papay and Black Dirt Farm Collective demonstrate community-led farming systems that work toward Black and Indigenous liberation while nourishing humanity and the Earth.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A cause for controversy Unsurprisingly, it’s an approach that hasn’t been particularly well received by the hill farming community. It’s a frustrating situation, not least because most people probably agree that there is space for hill farming and rewilding to coexist.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Those cows are just one part of the closed-loop system the college aims to highlight in its new farm-to-fork program that is rolling out this school year. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs. Bergen Community College was one of the grant recipients, receiving a $4.5-million

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. Where are we in the ecological succession? I did my graduate work in cotton.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. This is simply untrue and ignores the fact that conventional farming degrades land, pollutes water, kills wildlife, and is responsible for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Among the 12.6

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Attending this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference earlier this month, SFT Content Editor, Alicia Miller, shares more on the sessions that took place, in her round-up article on this year’s event. The commons offer the most obvious route – if we can meaningfully reactivate it. Is it possible that it’s worn itself out?

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

347.563.6408 Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward Washington, DC, May 20, 2024 – On Friday, May 17, the House Agriculture Committee released the long-awaited Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA ). The Farm, Food, and National Security Act fundamentally fails to meet the moment.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

He found this disconcerting, not only for himself but the future of small-scale grain farming in California, once known for its golden hills of grain. This specialized, often professionally operated equipment—and all farm equipment , for that matter—can be prohibitively challenging for many farmers to buy and maintain.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

Urban ag is any kind of food production space within a city, inclusive of commercial farms that grow and sell directly to consumers, non-profit farms that serve a broader mission, community gardens, school gardens and even vacant lots turned into thriving personal gardens or homesteads. Oxford Tract research farm at UC Berkeley.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm Food and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA), which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on Friday, May 24. Overall, FFNSA misses the mark and fails to sufficiently address the most fundamental threat to our food and farm system.

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Caff

AUGUST 26, 2024

Community Alliance with Family Farmers, in partnership with the Farm Service Agency, Veggielution, Agroecology Commons, the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, and Food Access LA, are thrilled to announce the recipients of the Growing Urban Agriculture microgrants for the Spring of 2024.

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Caff

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 2017, CAFF’s Ecological Farming team has been conducting an on-farm demonstration project in collaboration with California no-till farmers to better understand small-scale biointensive no-till farming’s effect on soil health.

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Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

As a farmer-serving organization, we recognize the historic and lasting inequities in the California food and farming system. Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

This year our farm trials will test the use of the Global Farm Metric framework to enable farmers and others to navigate the complex world of farm sustainability, so that they can support and drive change. The trials will also explore the value of assessing vital aspects of farm sustainability that are sometimes overlooked.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund The Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem that aims to regenerate custodial land ownership, ecological stewardship, and food and fiber economies in the American South.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It sits alongside the Belize Northeastern Biological Corridor, which connects various ecological reserves and allows for safe passage of wildlife like jaguars and pumas. The ecological farming practices SHI partner farmers use provide even more habitat for wildlife and contribute to national conservation efforts.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

A reference to diversification is fundamentally a reference to restoring the ecosystem function of farmland by allowing living organisms to reclaim roles that beginning in the mid-20th century have been assigned largely to synthetic chemicals or machines in conventional farming. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

Before RiCharde and his wife, Anna, took over Good Wheel Farm outside of Asheville in 2019, he managed the livestock operations for another farm in Western North Carolina. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Sankofa Community Farm Sankofa Community Farm is a spiritually-rooted, intergenerational farm uplifting people and cultures of the African diaspora. Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden Find Sankofa Community Farm’s chemical-free produce June through November at the Bartram’s Village and Clark Park farmers markets.

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Caff

JUNE 6, 2023

CAFF’s Biointensive No-Till Project is an on-farm demonstration project partnering with small, diversified vegetable farms in Northern California who are committed to minimizing tillage and interested in learning about how it affects soil health. As a result, it is often viewed as a good indicator of soil health.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 recently passed by the House Agriculture Committee does not serve the new generation of farmers and ranchers in this country. But first, let’s break down all the red, green, and yellow flags included in the first draft. based multinational corporations, private equity firms, and pension funds.

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The Equation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The discrimination of the Jim Crow era in many ways evolved into this legal form of theft that strips families of their lands, homes, farms, forests, and corresponding intergenerational wealth. The struggle over coastal land has continued to intensify as locals endure successive waves of development, rezoning, and ecological destruction.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

In this series, we explore the role of metrics in transitioning to a more sustainable food and farming system, and we meet some of the people who are leading the way. For many people, the way to change our approach is to re-consider how we value nature. But there is a more fundamental value issue here.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While the traditional use of farming methods that promote soil health (and do not use agrochemicals) have been practised for millennia, the ‘organic movement’ started in the 1940s when the Green Revolution started to take full force. As Compson says, “Unlike some eco-claims, in most regions the term organic is protected by law.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

At Arla Foods , its UK emissions are 4.8MtCo23 and 83% of those come from its farms. Arla is running pilots with 24 farmers in the UK, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark to “explore regenerative farming methods in a structured and coordinated manner.” Nestlé ’s footprint is 92MtCO2e with 71% from ‘ingredients sourcing’.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew. They eventually had no option but to stop farming and let the land heal. His farming operation benefited too, with a diverse array of vegetables, fruits, and grains now flourishing in his fields. Abebe’s mantra, “nourish and heal,” is catching hold around the globe.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

SCN works with nonprofits and schools in the region to integrate farming and food production into their work and advocates for local policy that supports school gardens, urban farms, and community gardens and helps get fresh produce to food insecure residents. Are you still actively involved in farming?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. This short briefing explores how regenerative farming is core to delivery of Labour’s missions, and how public investment in the farming transformation can deliver for its economic, environmental and social goals. This level of ambition is needed again now.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

In return, they are paid a yearly rental rate per acre of land enrolled in CRP programs. In 2023, he USDA Farm Service Agency made more than $1.77 Obviously, farming crops and rangelands are not compatible,” she says. Removing livestock for even 10 years from this land can cause an ecological disaster in grassland communities.”

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources.

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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. Blackwood Educational Land Institute , United States This nonprofit teaching farm aims to inspire the next generation of farmers and ecologists.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

Farmed deer are still in the field for the best part of their lives. This marks an increase of more than 30% in the past decade as chicken has been marketed as a more compassionate, healthy and ecological alternative to red meat. Sheep, cattle and other ruminants are rarely raised exclusively indoors in Britain.

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