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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. Local markets are climate resilient. These markets are large and important to local producers. Women farmers have the most to gain from local markets.

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Against the grain: Uncovering Nebraska’s regenerative transition

Sustainable Food Trust

Dead straight farm tracks separate the farms and link up to railways where farmers drop off their grain to be transported to large processing units. We met with four inspiring farmers who are going against the grain (pun intended – Nebraska’s main crop is corn) and adopting regenerative agriculture practices.

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ORFC 2024: Highlights from this year’s conference

Sustainable Food Trust

The last four decades has mapped the rising power of corporations over our food supply, with civil society more and more unable to significantly shift the agenda – “market power translates into political power”, says Nick Jacobs of IPES-Food. But is the tide finally changing? Has it been undermined by a lack of agreement over its definition?

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Report Explores Climate Change Risks in Cereals Production and Trade Flows

ATTRA

A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy provides an analysis of how current and projected climate change risks are affecting production and trade by the major cereal producers, exporters, and importers in international markets.

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Relocalizing the Food System to Fight a ‘Farm-Free Future’

Civil Eats

He writes: “Our societies must turn to low-energy, low-capital, low-carbon agroecological approaches geared to meeting local needs primarily from local land, air and water. “We’re overproducing cheap arable grains because it’s so easy to make them extend into landscapes where we probably shouldn’t be farming.”

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As the Climate Crisis Escalates, Here Are 18 Food and Ag Solutions

Civil Eats

Comic: Adapting Corn for Tortillas—and New Markets—in the Pacific Northwest In this illustrated report, we explore how the Organic Seed Alliance is working with local farmers, scientists, and chefs to adapt crops to new environments—and the changing climate. An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Greater increases in structural, variety, and species diversity may be created with agroforestry systems, mixing trees and shrubs into annual and perennial grain, legume, and vegetable crops. That includes agroforestry systems, perennial pasture systems, and perennial grain crops.