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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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20 Food Systems Reads that Will Inspire You this Summer

Food Tank

Barefoot Biodynamics: How Cows, Compost, and Community Help Us Understand Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture Course by Jeff Poppen In Barefoot Biodynamics , Jeff Poppen integrates stories from his time in rural Tennessee in his guide to biodynamic principles and practices.

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Wild Nuts Are Making a Comeback in Southern Appalachia

Civil Eats

Perhaps ironically, the mixes have sold best not in rural Virginia but at markets in Washington, D.C. Like eating wild nuts itself, Holt says, such an approach to forestry would represent a return to older patterns of life. “I Acorn is a wildness supplement—Vitamin W.”

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Private investment in food and agriculture systems are designed to maximize a narrow concept of economic efficiency which fails to prioritize the well-being of small family farmers, rural communities, or the land. “In

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