Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. Another part of my argument is ecological feedback. Humans are great at inventing symbolic systems that overrun the local ecology.

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Walla Walla’s hands-on coursework is bringing together agriculture and culinary students as part of a nascent movement among community colleges that are increasingly bringing food production into curricula in new and innovative ways. Walla Walla Community College hopes to offer surplus agricultural products at its food pantry, too.

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Food Farming Farming Agroecology 98

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.

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Agroecology Food Livestock Farming 78

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Failure to robustly fund public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems stifles scientific and technical innovation and leaves US farmers and ranchers unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 110

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. Timothy Bowles, a professor of Agroecology at U.C.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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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Farming Farming Ecology Construction 98

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. These are costs that are very limited or non-existent on small-scale, organic agroecology farms. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs. Among the 12.6

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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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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Ecology 64

Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

Meanwhile, the cost of farm production expenses are expected to reach a record high in 2023. 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 isn’t working for many small producers. The median farming income in the U.S.

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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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Cultivation Food Marketing Distribution 105

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. The question of how to diversify farm production is closely linked with the question of expanding access to land. However, NSAC covers the land access issue elsewhere.

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Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 89

Caff

JANUARY 17, 2023

Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. Support CAFF’s Small Farm Tech Hub Specialist with production of the annual Small Farm Innovation Challenge, including promotion, organizing applications, and awarding the annual small farm innovation awards.

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Technology Farming Farming Agroecology 52

Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Assurance: certifying avocados More and more consumers are searching out products that reflect their values, including trying to source more sustainable avocados. The British public increasingly demonstrate the desire for transparent information to better understand the origin of their products.

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Processing Production Food Crop Rotation 64

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

Title 1 – Commodities Dramatically raises subsidies for commodity production, including a 10 to 20 percent increase to Price Loss Coverage program reference prices and a bump to revenue guarantees under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program. percent of farmers.

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Agriculture Agriculture Farming Farming 99

Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Philly Forests uses revenue from their crop sales to operate their Urban Ecology Program which distributes free trees, shrubs and perennial plants through the Philadelphia zip codes with the lowest amount of tree canopy. In 2022, Philly Forests began a school garden and mini food forest at EW Rhodes K-8 School in North Philadelphia.

Food 52

Food Agroecology Acre Agriculture 52

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

While many sustainability assessments focus on the impacts that farms have on people and planet beyond the farm gate (for example, the contribution of farm greenhouse gas emissions to global warming), less attention is focused on the need to ensure that future generations can meet their needs for farm products, in particular, food.

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Farming Farming Agroecology Crop 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

public, across party lines, is concerned about the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production. Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 85

Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. Trees, they say, can protect farm animals from wind and sun, prevent erosion, stabilize streambanks, and yield marketable products like fruit and nuts.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

For food companies, the emissions from production are huge and devilishly hard to tackle – which is why an increasing number of businesses are pinning their net-zero hopes on regenerative agriculture. There is also talk of healthier soils, fewer chemicals, more biodiversity – and even more nutritious products.

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Agriculture Agriculture Food Acre 52

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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Farming Farming Food Cattle 52

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

It required that these funds be used for practices that “improve soil carbon, reduce nitrogen losses, or reduce, capture, avoid, or sequester carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions associated with agricultural production.” TITLE VII: Research RED FLAG Prioritizes precision agriculture over critical agroecological research.

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Daily Yonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Farmers like Abebe Moliso, whose family land in the Ethiopian highlands became severely degraded from years of monocropping, overgrazing, and slashing the forests in the pursuit of new productive fields, all of which radically changed the local climate. The more he and his neighbors farmed, the less they grew.

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Agriculture Agriculture Grain Food 81

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. We need a huge paradigm shift in both the philosophy and the practices of farming.

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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. They also foster unity among farmers and collaborate with partners to enhance production and marketing opportunities.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Ruralism 139

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Sometimes, though, it’s the best and only option for the land and its long-term productivity. Some acreages are inherently less productive than others.” Created by Congress in 1985, the CRP asks agricultural producers to voluntarily take environmentally sensitive land out of active production and conserve it.

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Farming Farming Farmland Livestock 97

Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

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. The more cereals that are fed to an animal, the less resource efficient its milk or meat is.

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Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Food production and consumption that ensures everyone has access to healthy, affordable, culturally relevant, and delicious food. Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa.

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Food Agriculture Agriculture Seeding 145

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. Deterioration of the natural environment could slow economic growth and result in UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 6% by the 2030s. Because of this lack of confidence, all farming sectors are expecting to decrease production over the next year.

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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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Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

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. Swiftly, an era of CAFOs began in poultry production, which still reigns today. And she could.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 137

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. Learning how food is produced is a significant step, but it’s not easy: “Opacity insulates consumers from the worst practices of food production,” the authors write.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This is the second 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. Called Resilient food futures: agroecology and climate finance for ambitious NDCs 3.0, Read part one.

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Agroecology Finance Food Rural Development 133

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2025

This is an incredibly productive, resilient, and sustainable system, said Pea, founder of The Acequia Institute , a nonprofit that supports environmental and food justice in southern Colorado. In the San Luis Valley as a whole, 130 gravity-flow ditches irrigated 30,000 acres of farmland and 10,000 acres of wetlands.

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Ecology Water Rights Acre Crop 108