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ORFC 2024: Highlights from this year’s conference

Sustainable Food Trust

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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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. In general, permanently retiring farmland has much better benefits for the climate than even working lands with conservation.”

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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

This is because productive arable farmland, that could be used for growing food to be fed directly to people, is used for growing lower grade livestock cereals, from which only 17-30% of calories are returned for human consumption as meat or milk. Examples of good practice are already flourishing in organic and agroecological enterprises.

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20 Organizations Cultivating the Food Movement in Atlanta

Food Tank

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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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

Over at Tool Legit, the farmers share similar goals of farming ecologically and productively at a human scale, which lends to knowledge-sharing, too. “It Whelan hopes to one day own her own farm in Connecticut, the state that she notes has some of the most expensive farmland in the country.

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation. The Chairman’s proposal fundamentally damages CRP’s ability to address environmental concerns generally, and water quality concerns specifically. 2101) Dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies.