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Brainfood: Biodiversity nexus, Nutrition interventions, European land suitability, Beyond yield, Cover crops, CWR breeding, Rice gaps, Banana info system

Agricultural Biodiversity

Europe has run out of land usable for crops, but some currently used land is being used for the wrong crops. Beyond yield and toward sustainability: Using applied ecology to support biodiversity conservation and food production. Global synthesis of cover crop impacts on main crop yield.

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Understanding pH Part One:

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.

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Organics, Carbon Farming, and Cultivating Soil (and Values!)

Hartwood Farm

There are still a lot of questions that science is working out—like how exactly the whole process works and what sort of impact different soil microbes have, but there does seem to be potential in carbon farming for helping mitigate climate change. Like soil microbes, Beulah enjoys grazing on cover crops in the wintertime.

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

Sustainable Food Trust

xvi] Regenerative agriculture is key to flood resilience and prevention of the decimation of crop yields. Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). Simulated country-scale adoption of reduced tillage, cover cropping, and ley-arable integration using RothC. Science of The Total Environment 825, 153955 (2022).

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SARE Delivers for Farmers. Will Congress Deliver for SARE?

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Previous research has shown that row covers can have a positive impact on cucurbit crop yields by providing a barrier to insect pests. Their project focused on using row covers and introduced pollinators to control cucurbit pests, optimize cucurbit flower pollination, and increase cucurbit crop yields.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

They offer a rigorous Agricultural Sciences undergraduate program that emphasizes entrepreneurship, environmental responsibility, and social commitment. EAT , International EAT seeks to transform global food systems by integrating science, innovation, and collaboration across sectors.

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Fertilizer Overuse Is Bad Enough. What If You’re Exposed to Multiple Pollutants?

The Equation

A carefully crafted narrative that more fertilizer means more crop yield and more profits, combined with government subsidies that have favored corporate profits, have allowed giant fertilizer companies to hook farmers on fertilizers. Secondly, the quantity of fertilizer consumption has drastically increased in the last few decades.