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Agroecological Crop Selection, Part 2

ATTRA

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. Think about plants in nature.

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Agroecological Crop Selection, Part 1

ATTRA

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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Will a Food and Ag Focus at COP28 Distract From the Fossil Fuel Economy?

Civil Eats

Estrella “Esther” Penunia, the secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, called consolidation a “big problem” and talked about transforming the food system to “shift the power to the people.” Is Agroecology Being Coopted by Big Ag? Packaged Food Policy.

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Greens as a Secondary Income from your Cash Crop Plants

ATTRA

These products are best marketed directly to consumers, local chefs, or specialty markets, although I hope this will change. Although cutting leaves may slow fruit production, it’s often a necessary part of plant pruning. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Release: House Farm Bill Misses Opportunity to Move Agriculture Forward

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Title 1 – Commodities Dramatically raises subsidies for commodity production, including a 10 to 20 percent increase to Price Loss Coverage program reference prices and a bump to revenue guarantees under the Agriculture Risk Coverage program. percent of farmers.

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124 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2024!

Food Tank

Food production and consumption that ensures everyone has access to healthy, affordable, culturally relevant, and delicious food. Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) , Africa AFSA is an alliance uniting civil societies dedicated to promoting agroecology and food sovereignty across Africa.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Such changes reduced the overall resilience of the agroecological system. Though plants and seed were historically interpreted to be products of nature and thus, not patentable per existing patent law, the American Association of Nurserymen successfully lobbied the federal government to pass the Plant Patent Act of 1930.

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