Agroecology Ecology Yield 
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.
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 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. Benton’s assertion of the need to include some ‘high-yield’ (i.e.
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.
Modern Farmer
MARCH 20, 2024
Better yet, why do some researchers, farmers and activists prefer the term “urban agroecology?” From 2017 to 2019, my research team helped to define and elevate “urban agroecology” in the US as a better way of acknowledging the multifunctional benefits of urban green spaces. However, when you divide a large number (i.e.,
Daily Yonder
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
A bit further north, the Sicangu Lakota community is reviving traditional Native American growing practices to reclaim their food sovereignty and also restoring the buffalo herd that once kept the Prairie ecology in balance. In the U.S., Department of Agriculture. on public-sector agricultural research.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 29, 2023
But where Bergen Community College aims to foster new farmers in a suburban-urban environment through vertical farms and hydroponics, Walla Walla’s program will expand upon an existing agroecology curriculum geared toward its rural students, many of whom may be seeking to bring their education back to family farms or other local agriculture.
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