Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. It could have finished the task in a few hours, saving days of hard, repetitive labor. She sees building social and resource networks as essential to making it as a first-generation farmer.

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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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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

farmland toward regenerative practices by the end of the decade. The film “ Common Ground ” does a great job documenting farmers who are using regenerative agriculture to heal the planet and protect our health—in economically beneficial ways. And they’re pushing innovation.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

Millenia of farmer experience and decades of modern organic and agroecological farming show the way. Despite these unknowns, biotech and pesticide companies are speeding ahead with the commercialization of GE soil microbes with very little government oversight. Proven® is already being used on over three million acres of U.S.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the neighboring country of Burkina Faso, the Association Minim Sông Pânga (AMSP), with 5,000 members, leads efforts to advance sorghum breeding research to best serve farmland in their region. Among their efforts is the formation of the seedball caravan. They also engage with sorghum hybrid seed production.

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Food Tank

APRIL 2, 2024

Global Growers Network (GGN) Working with a network of 175 families, many of whom are resettled refugees, GGN connects food producers to sustainable agriculture resources and quality farmland. These efforts encompass small scale farming, agroecology, agroforestry, and reforestation.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

When Paula and Dale Boles took over Dale’s father’s farmland in North Carolina, they thought that poultry farming would be a good way to work the land until they were ready to pass it on to their children. But you have to actually create transition paths for farmers to exit out of factory farming.”

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

But maybe the most famous sabotage occurred in March of 2023, after heavy rains flooded Dear Creek and someone artificially diverted the water flow toward Allensworth to protect industrial farmland operations elsewhere. Denise and Kayode participated in the ALBA program , a land-based training for future agroecology small farmers.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Perfectly square patches of farmland cover the entire southeast of the state. As agroecology researcher, Dr Nathan Einbinder, shares in his Wicked Leeks column , “I’m a strong believer in farmer-to-farmer approaches as a vehicle to empower producers to experiment and share.”

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

As farmland becomes less functional as a result of increasing stresses from drought, floods, pests, and heatwaves, its regulation by diverse organisms becomes ever more important. Climate change and biodiversity loss represent existential threats to the agricultural status quo.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

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.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 19, 2024

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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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. Examples of good practice are already flourishing in organic and agroecological enterprises.

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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. American Farmland Trust (AFT) , United States AFT is dedicated to protecting and preserving farmland and ranchland in the U.S.,

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

An important shift to this type of alternative proteins could free up a lot of farmland to allow for more agroecological farming ,” he says, such as incorporating rewilding projects to mitigate emissions. He adds that alternative proteins would help farmers. “An

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Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past several months, farming has become nearly impossible in Gaza, cut off from water, fuel, equipment and processing, as well as from their farmland. REVIEW social media posts from farmers and allies Cultural Roots Nursery , Soul Fire Farm , Foodshed , Agroecology Commons, and Second Generation Seeds.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The IPCC’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Alarm for Food Systems, Too Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? What Role Does Farmland Play? “We cannot address the planetary crisis without tackling food system emissions, and we can’t phase out fossil fuels without transforming food systems.” Avoiding the Next Dust Bowl.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

A product of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the first farm bills were enacted in the 1930s in response to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, which ruined farmland across the Great Plains.

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