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Opinion: Canada’s Ag Policies Need to Better Serve Local Farmers and Communities

Modern Farmer

A range of issues plague the current system, including corporate consolidation , farmland concentration in the hands of non-farmers and foreign buyers , pollution and animal welfare issues , as well as soil erosion and the poor treatment of migrant workers.

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Restoring soil carbon

Sustainable Food Trust

Putting a value on this carbon (and other greenhouse gases) is not a simple matter and various pricing mechanisms exist. A carbon offset tends to refer to credits being traded on a voluntary market where companies – and individuals – can buy into carbon offsetting schemes to compensate for their emissions.

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Birds are Vulnerable to Heat Stress, Even on Farms

Modern Farmer

These occurrences in urban areas are scary, but heat stress can affect birds in more rural spaces, too, and farmland is no exception. If we figure out what the mechanisms are, that leads us directly to concrete conservation interventions,” says Lauck. Trees adjacent to farmland can provide critical canopy to wild birds.

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Old Hedgerows are New Again as More Farmers Embrace Benefits

Modern Farmer

Some midwestern fields are still bordered by hedgerows, but most US farmers don’t plant hedgerows and are skeptical of their benefits , worrying that they might introduce pests or predators to their farmland. “I Mechanization is the primary reason why hedgerows have disappeared in North America,” says Jones.

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PARALLEL ECONOMIES - AGRICULTURE

The Lunatic Farmer

But instead it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb. Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health. That’s farmland, equipment, and buildings.

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Secrets of the swamp

Food Environment and Reporting Network

At one point, the director asked Van Lent to run the numbers on a small ecological project; he’d gotten a call from Governor Bob Graham, he said, who was being pestered by some old lady about doing something to save the Everglades. Mechanical harvesters cut sugar cane in the U.S. But then he began to explore the Everglades. Sugar Corp.

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The Land Back Movement Is Also About Foodways

Civil Eats

In Nebraska, the Ponca people have been growing their sacred corn on farmland signed back to them in 2018. To safeguard present and future progress, Warren implores policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels to take action in creating institutionalized mechanisms for tribal nations to acquire publicly managed and owned land.

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