Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The exact meaning of rewilding can be difficult to pin down, but properly speaking , it involves the landscape-scale restoration of the full (or near enough full) suite of natural processes and species that would be present were it not for human activity. However, two points of caution are worth making.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

As we increasingly experience the damage inflicted by well over half a century of industrial agriculture – including devastating impacts upon public health, soil fertility and biodiversity – what is desperately needed is a cohesive and actionable long-term plan for agriculture, grounded in an agroecological approach.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Once the Clean Water Act passed in 1972, many chemicals and toxins that had flowed freely from paper mills into Maine’s rivers started to be processed through sewage plants. Hay provides a particular challenge because it is often sold and transported to other farms where it is fed to livestock who spread the chemicals through their manure.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

But Sonoma has a less genteel side: The area is also home to approximately 3 million head of livestock held in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. In November, county residents will have the unique opportunity to ban CAFOs with a ballot initiative that would completely prohibit industrial livestock operations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

USDA funding should be directed toward building an understanding of the ecological aspects of our food and farm systems and integrating the diverse knowledge and practices of agroecological farmers and farm workers, rather than continuing to explore and promote the narrow constraints of industrial-scale monoculture. (

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We also saw a robust discussion at the Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas Pavilion, by IICA, on the climate influence of livestock production and cattle farming. Yesterday, someone I deeply admire, Million Belay , said something that stuck with me. He’s the General Coordinator for the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The first post details an overview of the markup process, the bill as a whole, and its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law. The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Drop a pin anywhere in Cornwall, England and you are likely to find a higgledy-piggledy arrangement of small green fields separated by wiggly lines of dark green hedgerows, hinting at the pastureland for the livestock-based agriculture which predominates there. As depressing as this might sound, this is also what made this trip fascinating.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Requests for sample work may be made further along in the application process. To apply: Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, resume, and references with the subject line “[Ecological Farming Program Specialist]” to jobs@caff.org by October 9, 2023.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

Here, Bill tells us how their low-input approach is delivering positive outcomes for livestock and wildlife and why he considers this to be fundamental to a more sustainable food and farming system. Most of this land is managed as nature reserves by conservation bodies.

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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. Yet few commercial agrivoltaic projects exist today.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Twenty-five leading philanthropies issued a joint call for a step-change in funding for regenerative and agroecological approaches, which currently receive just $44bn of the $250-430bn they need. The launch of the COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health , which again represents the first time this topic has formally been on the agenda.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For example, grazing animals such as cattle and sheep directly improve soil health and estimates suggest that the dung beetles that process their waste reduce cattle producers’ costs by £367 million per year. xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming.

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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. In this video, Brent shares who (i.e.,

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

US agriculture is not just a victim, but a contributor The raising of crops and livestock is the largest emitter of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane in the US food system. This creates instability in the cultivation and overall supply and distribution of food, which affects human and environmental health.

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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. Meanwhile, in the U.S., This scholarship is a work of trust, even capturing the eco-political movement’s emotional undercurrents. “We We no longer trembled with fear.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, the same farmers struggling with the effects of climate change, like drought, are revolting against stricter regulations on pollution from livestock manure. The process itself isn’t entirely new; it’s similar to how scientists grow human organ cells for medical purposes, Glenn Gaudette tells Sentient.

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As our diets in the UK are increasingly oriented around ultra-processed food, comprising over half of the calories consumed by adults and, more concernedly, over 65% of those consumed by children , there needs to be far more learning and engagement in what constitutes healthy eating. It seems a sea change isnt far off.

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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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Caff

MARCH 7, 2024

Over the past several months, farming has become nearly impossible in Gaza, cut off from water, fuel, equipment and processing, as well as from their farmland. Crops have been abandoned and livestock face starvation or are being slaughtered to feed the hungry.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The bill also provides new authority to allow USDA to refinance farm loans for distressed borrowers, although some of this flexibility was stripped back during the amendment process. Shifts the burden of proof in the appeals process to USDA. This program has been long authorized but never funded in the farm bill process.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And with the farm bill process punted to next year and still no end in sight on the many spending bills Congress plans to pass, their future remains uncertain. The IPCC’s Latest Climate Report Is a Final Alarm for Food Systems, Too Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? The storms can also destroy crops and harm livestock.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

To reverse the US farm and ranch system’s climate-warming impact, the way we produce field crops and livestock must change dramatically. RS: The single biggest thing Congress could do is to incorporate the Justice for Black Farmers Act in the new food and farm bill.

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