National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. This long standing setaside has led to significant portions of EQIP spending going towards infrastructure practices of questionable environmental value.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

From the beginning, NSAC and its more than 150 members nationwide have called for a farm bill that incorporates lessons learned since 2018 by advancing programs and policies that build resilience and equity, restore competition, invest in science, and renew our environment for current and future generations.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A growing area of the Ecological Farming program, as well as CAFF, is to increase access to Ecological Farming among communities that have historically been left out of research, extension and technical assistance efforts, with particular focus on Latinx farming communities.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Just how far regenerative agriculture can cut emissions from livestock farming remains moot. The current science suggests changes to diets will also be needed, with plant-based products to the fore. He argues agroecological systems are “networks of relationships, not collections of practices. By the end of last year, 19.7%

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for food sovereignty and agroecology across the continent. They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment.

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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. EAT Forum , International EAT is a science-based organization focused on creating fair and sustainable food systems to keep the plant and everyone healthy.

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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. A UCS analysis found that the government has invested less than 25 cents out of every thousand dollars in federal research funding in this critical area.

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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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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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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Regenerative agriculture is an ongoing continuum of sustainability for Californias farmers and ranchers, informed by current science as well as the traditions and innovations from the original Indigenous stewards of the land. and 8 percent of Californias greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from croplands, industrial vehicles, and livestock.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2025

The impacts of pauses and cancellations are widespread, affecting a livestock feed-processing facility in Montana, tribes working on Native food sovereignty in Kansas, a community-supported fishery project in Maine, and many more. In Minnesota, The Good Acre food hub works with about 150 farms, McCormick said.

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