Agroecology Manure Technology 
Food Tank
MAY 1, 2024
Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives. Tostad says “it’s super crucial to always be very context-specific, and not even country-specific, but soil-specific.”
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 28, 2024
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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JANUARY 17, 2024
Moreover, despite a steady growth in total factor productivity (TFP, “a ratio of agricultural outputs produced to inputs used“) since 1948 as a result of technological change, climate change has already dampened TFP, and it is expected to decline to pre-1980 levels by 2050 unless adaptation measures adequately respond.
Agritecture Blog
JANUARY 27, 2023
The project involves using alternative feeds, like seaweed, for cows (reducing those methane burps), better manure management and growing more grass and feed crops using regenerative agriculture. He argues agroecological systems are “networks of relationships, not collections of practices.
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. Over the past 20 years, aided by leaps in technology, botanists have uncovered plant behaviors that challenge our very idea of what a plant is.
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. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Diverse plants and manure must take their place. Moreover, the needed shift away from industrial farming means identifying effective mixes of crops that produce nutrients in place. To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65
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