Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Until a few years ago, Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, grew wheat, rye, oats, and corn, as well as an array of vegetables in three high tunnel greenhouses, and supported a community-supported agriculture (CSA) program for over 100 customers. The sources of contamination were numerous. What we are working on now is the breakdown method.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. This is simply untrue and ignores the fact that conventional farming degrades land, pollutes water, kills wildlife, and is responsible for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Among the 12.6

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, organic production, silvopasture, agroforestry and “other agroecological systems” are also listed among solutions. Fortunately, a focus on agroecological solutions has been gaining some traction.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. CCS is a process that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reuse or store in gigantic facilities, pipelines, or the oceans.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Now to have come through it, it’s been a long process,” says Boles. “It This former chicken barn is now a greenhouse. But, over the last several years, there has been a wave of efforts to find ways to support farmers transitioning out of factory farming. And these pathways can be difficult to find and establish. “If

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

More than just an explicit set of production practices, this way of farming is known as “agroecology”, and refers to working with, rather than against, nature. Furthermore, any change to a farmer’s process costs time, money, and carries a level of risk.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

While many sustainability assessments focus on the impacts that farms have on people and planet beyond the farm gate (for example, the contribution of farm greenhouse gas emissions to global warming), less attention is focused on the need to ensure that future generations can meet their needs for farm products, in particular, food.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Conspiracy Theories and an Ongoing Culture War Dozens of peer-reviewed studies have shown that livestock accounts for anywhere between 11 and 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from land use and cow burps. So can we involve them in this process?” He argues that it’s as safe as traditional meat.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Moreover, they have more potential to contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation via carbon sequestration. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions means moving away from the use of high-energy and polluting nitrogenous fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Two years ago, in an effort to guide Californias farming policy and programs, the state launched a public process to define regenerative agriculture. The process included seven public listening sessions two of them for California Native American tribesand three work group meetings. Hundreds of people from across the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And it found that despite an executive order directing agencies to consider greenhouse gas emissions in procurement, another addressing consolidation , and hundreds of millions of dollars granted to small and mid-size farms and processors over the past few years, the government isn’t exactly putting its money where its mouth is.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

As it reads now, the bill fails to prioritize equitable farmland access, divests from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and strikes climate provisions that would assist farmers in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for extreme weather events. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA.

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