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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public. Natural capital and ecosystem services constitute farms’ ecological wealth. soil health and biodiversity) on their farms.

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Q&A: How Community Land Trusts Help to Preserve Farmland

Modern Farmer

For more than four decades, the executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics (which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980) has been tending to a land-use movement in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, driven by innovative ideas for cultivating affordable access to farmland. HVS: Let’s start with the basics.

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When Not Farming is the Best Use of Land

Modern Farmer

Not all farmland is created equal,” says Jesse Womack, a conservation policy specialist with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). Photography submitted by Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. Agriculture is responsible for 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the US. It is always overdrawn.”

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Lunch and Learn: Ethanol, Implications and a Livelihood

Wisconsin Farmers Union

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. The overall impact of the greenhouse gas reductions of ethanol compared to gasoline are therefore hard to balance.

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

At her 6-acre Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon, Schreiner employs traditional ecological knowledge to cultivate regional first foods —foods consumed before European colonialization—and passes that expertise down to Native American youth. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Agroforestry Deepens Roots with New Demonstration Farm Network

Modern Farmer

It was founded in 2013 in the Champaign-Urbana area by a group of researchers, students and farmers that were interested in exploring how perennial agriculture and agroforestry could benefit Midwestern farmlands. Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill.,

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What Are the Big Issues for Young Farmers? We Asked Them

Modern Farmer

It broke up the people and the ecology of the landscape and parceled it into the British land title system. Ardeo was matched to farmland through the B.C. SD: Yeah, we work with farmers who are doing agri-ecology, who want to do education and train. And now we’re in 2024, we have market failure conditions for agriculture.

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