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Ecological Farming Program Specialist

Caff

Title: Ecological Farming Program Specialist I or II Location: California / Hybrid – partially remote option (Davis, CA Region preferred) FTE: 1.0 Currently our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming.

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Sowing Scholar-Activism: Situating Solidarity Alongside Science

The Equation

This post explores some broad suggestions for leveraging science to support activist efforts, based on a decade of work by the Gullah/Geechee Sustainability Think Tank (GGSTT). The struggle over coastal land has continued to intensify as locals endure successive waves of development, rezoning, and ecological destruction.

Science 99
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Relocalizing the Food System to Fight a ‘Farm-Free Future’

Civil Eats

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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Food Systems 101: How Community Colleges Are Helping Students Connect Farm to Fork

Modern Farmer

The grant, which will provide funding through June 2028, will help the college to enhance its current culinary, horticulture and science curriculum with new classwork that will explore sustainable food production and safety practices, waste management and agribusiness. “We director of the Agriculture Science program.

Food 97
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From Civil Rights to Food Justice, Jim Embry Reflects on a Life of Creative Resistance

Civil Eats

There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. Agroecology is an integrated approach that combines ecological and social principles for sustainable agriculture and food systems.

Food 97
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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

As many parts of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital to dedicate funding to AMMP technologies to ensure that instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as can be.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

xlii] Agroecological farming systems have been demonstrated to increase biodiversity on farmed land: plant species increase by 20-95%, insect species by 23%, and pollinator numbers by 30% in organic compared with conventional farming systems. Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). Science of The Total Environment 825, 153955 (2022).

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