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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. This rapid improvement is in stark contrast to the industrial livestock production model, which has all but reached its limits in terms of scale, reach, and efficiency.

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Op-Ed | The Most Sustainable Fish You Probably Never Knew Existed

Food Tank

Unlike vast swaths of Pacific and Indian Ocean where global treaties are lacking, enforcement is sparse, science is always playing catch-up and ‘dark fleets’ perpetrate illegal fishing and human rights abuses, the Bering Sea is a global model for how fish, fishermen and communities can all thrive. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.

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Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment

Civil Eats

The breadth of the problem prompted President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to issue a warning in December, calling the crisis “an all-hands-on-deck moment for groundwater sustainability.” Now those wells have water—it’s music to my ears—they can haul water for their livestock.” more reliant on imports.

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Food and Farming at the Forefront of Labour’s Missions for Change – September 2024

Sustainable Food Trust

In periods of high rainfall, grasslands and woodlands soak up water much more effectively than arable land, reducing the speed of runoff and the risk of rivers bursting their banks.[xvii] xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming. xliii] IOFAM Organics Europe.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

—Nina Elkadi Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing By Jennifer Grenz “To use only fragmented pieces of [Indigenous] knowledge is to admire a tree without its roots,” Nlaka’pamux ecologist turned land healer Jennifer Grenz writes in Medicine Wheel for the Planet.

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