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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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Can Agroforestry Breathe New Life Into Carbon Markets?

Civil Eats

He used a conventional approach: He diligently mowed his animals’ pastures to control weeds, added lime to make the soil less acidic, and applied fertilizer to boost productivity. Michael RiCharde herds sheep down a slope on Good Wheel Farm in North Carolina, part of the Carbon Harvest carbon market.

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ORFC 2024: Highlights from this year’s conference

Sustainable Food Trust

The last four decades has mapped the rising power of corporations over our food supply, with civil society more and more unable to significantly shift the agenda – “market power translates into political power”, says Nick Jacobs of IPES-Food. But is the tide finally changing? Has it been undermined by a lack of agreement over its definition?

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Agricultural Diversification: Practice and Policy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Diversity within livestock systems, as with having chickens or small ruminants follow cattle in a pasture-based rotation, also provides multiple benefits, including pest suppression. More diversity within pasture polycultures can enhance the nutritional quality, animal health benefits (e.g.,

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Do chickens deserve better?

Sustainable Food Trust

About once a month, I gulp when I pay £24 or thereabouts for my bird, which justifies its steep price tag because it is reared to the strictest legal ‘traditional’ and truly free-range standard, a slow-maturing variety fed on pasture and cereals, killed at 81 days. How often have you heard that said?

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A Game of Chicken

Sustainable Food Trust

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’ play pretty well in agribusiness boardrooms.[3] Organic, Pasture-Fed Beef and Lamb ’, Guardian, 16 August, cf. over that period).[2]

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5 Critical Agriculture Topics to Incorporate Into Any Climate-Related Event

Agritecture Blog

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. Building markets, and key infrastructure, for cover crops such as oats and peas will also help facilitate their wider adoption.