National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, solutions to livestock methane center on feed supplements and energy capture from liquid manure systems rather than grazing systems. the Osage Nation’s community orchard.

Agriculture 104

Agriculture Agriculture Livestock Forage 104

Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Additionally, they say, children must have a voice in policymaking. We no longer trembled with fear.

Food 106

Food Farming Farming Forage 106

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Prairie strips are one means of increasing biodiversity and perennial presence in fields Diversification in practice Diversification may mean a variety of changes in a farm or ranch system. Mixed summer forage in the Southeast U.S. The mix of species includes sorghum sudan-grass, sunn hemp, cow peas, and millet.

Agriculture 81

Agriculture Agriculture Crop Rotation Pasture 81

The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

Food 98

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 98