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Agroecology Movements Turn Digitization on its Head

Food Tank

From the perspective of Veronica Villas Arias of the ETC Group shared during an Agroecology Fund webinar, “when new technologies are introduced into societies who are already facing injustice and inequality, they’re just going to widen and increase those injustices and inequalities.”

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Bringing ‘agroecological intelligence’ to on-farm technology choices

Sustainable Food Trust

A Bigger Conversation’s Director, Pat Thomas, shares insights from the ‘Agroecological Intelligence’ project, which spoke with agroecological farmers and growers to establish a criteria for adopting new technologies. But not everyone buys in to this narrative.

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Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Saturday, Nov. 16

Food Tank

As countries negotiate and announce their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or environmental action plans, they must meaningfully uplift agroecological and regenerative approaches, not just pay lip service. We need to integrate soil health into international negotiations like the ones being discussed here at COP29. Register HERE.

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Skilled labour in the meat processing sector

Sustainable Food Trust

For sustainable livestock farming and local meat production to be viable, we need a network of abattoirs and butchers. For sustainable livestock farming and local meat production to be viable, we need a network of abattoirs and butchers. Further, there is now only one training provider in the whole of the UK for smaller abattoirs.

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Path to a New Farm Bill: Sustainable and Organic Research 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

For example, increasing aridity in the Southwest and increasingly wet conditions throughout the northeast regions of the country–from the Midwest through New England–are likely to challenge crop and livestock production. In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Precision Agriculture The FFNSA dramatically increases support for precision agriculture technologies in conservation programs (Sec. The FFNSA also proposes creating Supplemental Activity Payments (SAP) for adopting and acquiring precision agriculture technologies through CSP. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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