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New Report Notes the Global Struggle Over Farmland and Food Sovereignty

Food Tank

It finds that land ownership is being consolidated in the hands of a few powerful actors, squeezing out smaller farmers, pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples, and others who rely on traditional farmland. Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology.

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Opinion: To Make a Real Impact on Climate Change, We Must Move Beyond the Carbon Footprint

Modern Farmer

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.,

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NSAC hopes that Congress can ultimately see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs through RCPP, as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate. It also removes the guiding purpose of ensuring farmland is usable by the next generation.

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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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The Power of Millets and Farmer Research Collaboration

Food Tank

This group of researchers, farmers, animators, and technicians is on a 100-village tour of the rural Maradi region of Niger, West Africa. 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.

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The Farmers Leaning On Each Other’s Tools

Civil Eats

In this sense, California Plowshares is a return to the kind of rural sharing economies that once arose naturally between farmers in tight-knit communities but have become much less common in recent years. 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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The Future of Resilient Agricultural Communities in California Is Alive in Allensworth

The Equation

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.