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

JULY 2, 2024

Leakey focuses on the tropics and subtropics, tracing many existential problems in those regions to the breakdown of agriculture systems.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Like eating wild nuts itself, Holt says, such an approach to forestry would represent a return to older patterns of life. “I Actively regenerating forests sequester more carbon and can help communities better resist large wildfires , which are likely to become more common throughout the Southeast as the climate changes.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“We are trying to be as optimistic as possible that there will be feasible scientific strategies in the future,” says Nancy McBrady, deputy commissioner of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DACF). From an agriculture perspective, we want the soil to come out the other side usable and healthy.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

million tons of offsets purchased by Microsoft in fiscal year 2021–22, for example, were tied to forestry initiatives. (A In many offset programs, that means protecting or planting large tracts of forests; over 85 percent of the 1.5 Agroforestry currently represents less than 1 percent of U.S. agriculture. it doesn’t work.”

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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. They work with companies along the agricultural, food, and forestry supply chains, helping them implement practices that are better for workers and the planet.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. In addition to increasing farm productivity, public agricultural R&D investment also supports improvements in natural resources and forestry management, helps advance rural development, and enhances food safety and quality.

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