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Regenerative Agriculture: A Strategic Approach for Farming

Cropaia

Compost and organic amendments : Regenerative farmers prioritize the use of organic matter, such as compost, manure, and other natural amendments, to enhance soil fertility and microbial activity. Resistance to change : Farmers may face resistance from within their communities or markets, where conventional practices are deeply entrenched.

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Digging into the House Farm Bill: Part 4

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Alternative Manure Management Practices (AMMP) The FFNSA does not contain a proposal to support AMMP technologies as envisioned in the ARA or the COWS Act. farmers and ranchers are unable to fully participate in and benefit from emerging markets for sustainably-produced foods.

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The mix fixes nitrogen and livestock can graze the mix directly in the field, returning nutrients to the soil via manure. What amounts to structural profit guarantees for conventional farms removes any market incentive which would otherwise exist for these operations to diversify production and markets or otherwise manage risk on-farm.

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GFM Trials: an update on the Global Farm Metric’s latest on-farm trials

Sustainable Food Trust

There are few local markets in West Wales and there isn’t much competition among growers, which, in terms of profit and business viability, is brilliant! And for agroecological farmers and growers, this poses some difficulty. But the community depends on their services.

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Why we’re in a critical period in the development of regenerative agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Carbon offsetting schemes are already being used to market huge numbers of products and we believe that building soil carbon stocks is no different,” he explains. Her simple solution is to “pay farmers an additional premium, supported by the market, for sustainable cocoa and reap the long-term benefits.”

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

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. Guilbeault ventured to Silicon Valley to examine veganism’s transformation from a social movement to a market-based model, and inside the U.S.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

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