Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

These animals live on a diet of mainly pasture and forage, making use of land that is often unsuitable for growing other crops. The Soil Association’s report, Peak Poultry , details that roughly three million tonnes of soya are imported into the UK each year, and most of it is bought by chicken producers to fatten chickens.

Poultry 52

Poultry Agroecology Pasture Food 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

Turning back to the CIG program, the FFNSA adds “perennial production systems, including agroforestry and perennial forages and grain crops” to the scope of CIG On-Farm Conservation Innovation Trials. Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) NSAC is pleased to see some inclusion of the ARA in FFNSA’s proposal for AFRI.

Farming 84

Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 84

ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia Tech and Virginia Cooperative Extension’s project team conducted 11 semi-structured interviews and conversations across Virginia to learn and better understand farmers’ and ranchers’ agroecological motivations and overall values related to the protection and conservation of water resources.

Cattle 69

Cattle Pasture Poultry Family Farming 69

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. In Into the Weeds , however, Tama Matsuoka Wong introduces readers to the anthropological concept of the “ middle ground ” between foraging and farming.

Food 145

Food Farming Farming Forage 145

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