Cropaia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This means increased crop yields and reduced inputs like fertilizers and pesticides. Cost savings : Regenerative farming often reduces the need for expensive inputs like synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. By building fertile, self-sustaining soil, farmers can cut costs significantly.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto Juan Martinez showing his vanilla plants at his agroecological plantation. Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber. Searching for market in Mexico The scarcity of water is just one of the hurdles facing vanilla production in the La Chinantla region. Photography by Noel Rojo.

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Food Tank

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the realm of pesticides and fertilizers has been dominated by chemistry for the past eight decades, it seems like biology may soon have its day. Biologicals are farm inputs that come from living organisms like plants and bacteria rather than from fossil fuels, the source of nearly all modern pesticides and fertilizers.

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Food Tank

JUNE 10, 2024

Land grabbing, or the large-scale appropriation of land, is one of the main causes, which can compromise the land’s original agroecology. Fertile, productive, and biodiverse lands tend to be most at risk of being acquired. The report highlights four drivers contributing to land consolidation globally.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers. In the 1930’s, as the market shifted toward hybrid varieties with desirable traits, companies developed exclusive cultivars.

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The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

What they do need are huge amounts of water, huge amounts of pesticides to artificially correct the unnatural monoculture, and huge amounts of fertilizers because industrial agriculture practices deplete nutrients from the soil. Denise and Kayode participated in the ALBA program , a land-based training for future agroecology small farmers.

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Share Food Program

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Agroecology: Understanding Sustainable Plant & Soil Science; and 4. Seeds, fertilizer, farmed animals, trucks used for transportation, packaging operations and grocery stores are all parts of our food system. In the spirit of back-to-school, we’ll be sharing Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum in a series of four lessons: 1.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature. Building markets, and key infrastructure, for cover crops such as oats and peas will also help facilitate their wider adoption.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

When crops are selected carefully and are well matched, intercropping and strip cropping often result in “overyielding” in which total marketable yield is greater (typically by 5-30%, occasionally more) than would be predicted from the yields of each crop grown in monoculture in the same environment.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This was because nearly four years ago the then Prince of Wales, now our King, launched the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) at Davos, Switzerland. The GFM team spent the year visiting farms around the UK as part of their farm trials to test the use of the Global Farm Metric framework.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Globally, nature is being destroyed by intensive farming, often undertaken by farmers who are forced to push their land ever harder by market forces demanding more produce for less reward. Owing to the increasing costs of fertilizers, seeds, chemicals and feed relative to the prices for farm produce, this approach is a dubious strategy.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

Buy-protect-sell is a measure that Young Farmers advocated for in the 2018 Farm Bill, alongside our partners, that enables land trusts to utilize ACEP funds to move quickly in getting priority farmland off the open market and facilitate a sale to a farmer or rancher. The Farmland Access Act (S.2507)

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Mexico’s challenge has also bolstered its standing as hemispheric leader of an agroecology movement gaining momentum across the global south. “If The rules governing the development and sale of GM foods date to the early 1990s, when Monsanto was preparing to bring the first major GM crop to market, Roundup Ready soybeans.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

UCS opposes allowing farmers to use offsets, carbon markets, or other flimsy instruments for climate claims until there are enough data and measurement systems to ensure that new practices actually reduce the sector’s climate impact.

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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” Broadly speaking, regenerative agriculture improves soil health and carbon sequestration through diverse crop rotations, animal grazing, limited tillage, and reduced (or eliminated) external inputs like fertilizer and pesticides. You should back away from this definition and call it agroecological or holistic.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

As always, there was much to explore at the Conference with an array of workshops and deep dive sessions arguably dominating the more academic talks on topics like Trauma and the Land and The Interbeing of Agroecology not to dismiss those deeper discussions which are important to have, but perhaps practice is having a moment?

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