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Indigenous People, Western Science, and Conservation in Thailand

Food Tank

Pernilla Malmer, Senior Advisor at SwedBio, tells Food Tank about the “ multiple-evidence base approach ”, which shows that “traditional knowledge of local communities is equally valid to science and brings critical value for complying with international environmental agreements.” They earn income from forest products and beekeeping.

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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

UnderstandingAg

By: Kyle Richardville, Understanding Ag, LLC About the Understanding series Agriculture isnt rocket science. Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Its much more complex than that. in some spots.

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Bringing Back Local Milk, Ice Cream, and Cheese

Civil Eats

Half an hour outside Portland, the 50-acre family farm is known for its ice cream and freshly churned cheddar, made from the milk of 20 pastured-grazed cows and sold a stone’s throw away at the farm stand and in a few local restaurants. Proper rotational grazing relies on pasture as the primary forage, cutting feed costs.

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Growing tobacco in the United States no longer makes sense

Food Environment and Reporting Network

If tobacco built the farm over generations, it’s no longer a dependable source of the kind of income his grandfather earned decades ago, much less its best cash crop. And he has begun to entertain the notion that his farm, one of the biggest tobacco growers in the biggest tobacco state, may soon get out of tobacco altogether.

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