Civil Eats

MAY 6, 2024

First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands. By diversifying the system, you provide a lot more habitat for these natural pollinators to pollinate crops,” said Singh-Varma.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 5, 2023

When arranged in the right way, studies have found this approach can actually offer compounding advantages such as shielding plants from excessive heat, cold and UV damage, thereby increasing the yield of certain crops. Some reduction in yield is still better than growing nothing," he argued. Photo is by Thomas Hickey.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

He planted wheat and other grains directly into the meadows and relied solely on rainfall for much of his acreage. This narrow segment receives over half of all crop insurance subsidies, funding their capacity to further expand in a cycle of farmland consolidation associated with greater climate vulnerability.

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