Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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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Modern Farmer

MAY 28, 2024

Image courtesy of Mad Agriculture Multi-year credit helps established farms Recently, Fitzgerald Organics acquired 140 acres of farmland, and needed financing to transition the plots to organic, as well as implement cover crops and plant pollinator strips. One of four branches of the MAD!

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Working with Viva Farms and Dirt Capital Partners, an agricultural investment company , Farias now has locked in a financing deal that puts him on track to own a parcel of land a few miles away from Viva Farms, within just a few years. Farias, who now operates his farm in partnership with his wife, wanted to pursue this goal as well.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They had attended my address earlier in the day and were brimming with questions about labor, moving animals, and finances. A strong sense of ecological production practices exists and fortunately this country does not have to hit as severe an “undo” button as countries like the U.S. But they are now.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Blooming ecological success Maggie Taylor of Delight Flower Farm, a commercial cut-flower farm in Champaign, Ill., has always been ecologically minded. Partnering with NRCS gives farmers access to programs that can help cost-share and provide technical assistance to get trees in the ground. Some classes are free, while others are $40.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

It broke up the people and the ecology of the landscape and parceled it into the British land title system. In Ontario, the Fair Finance Fund has a national fund for BIPOC candidates, because those candidates weren’t able to get their loans from the traditional lenders. MF: And then lastly, there’s access to knowledge.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Gretebeck worked with the Savanna Institute and Bob Micheel of the Natural Resources Conservation Service to help finance the planting of 1,200 trees that included honey locust, black walnut and a poplar hybrid on his property. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JULY 20, 2022

Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience? We’ll have Abram Bowerman, a young 24-year-old farmer in the Midwest who is bootstrapping a sheep operation, self-financed, and fully employed. Thomas Jefferson said “knowledge is power.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

It plans to do this by public and private means with the Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024 which contains schemes incentivising and helping farmers to adopt nature-friendly farming practices, and a Green Finance Strategy to encourage more private investment.

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Caff

APRIL 9, 2024

Currently, our programming is focused in four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. The position will work with the Finance Director to prepare and monitor annual budgets. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

We hope the damage isn’t already done, but we fear that publicity around this paper will minimize the advocacy of urban farmers and partners over the past many years…” Their overall critiques of the study start with the sample set of “urban farms.” It’s almost like comparing apples to oranges,” she said.

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The Lunatic Farmer

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This idea that nature has no balance, that no ecological boundaries exist, that life manipulation and re-arrangement has no limiting protocols, is endemic in food-as-machine thinking. The livestock vaccine industry is exploding, much of it financed by taxpayer money through government initiatives. Folks, cancer is a fast growth.

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OECD: Environment

JUNE 16, 2023

Agricultural and ecological droughts that used to occur once every 10 years are projected to occur twice as often – even in (an increasingly unlikely) low warming scenario of 1.5°C C in drying regions (Figure).

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

“The direction of the market at present points to the fact that regenerative, nature-based credits are priced artificially low and that valuing mitigation projects based solely on their supposed carbon benefit is neither the proper vehicle to drive drawdown nor to finance better land management,” she acknowledges.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

Yet, without defined priorities or target recipients, the program may inevitably lend itself to financing large-scale operations rather than serve as a new capital product for small, scaling, or new local operations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Practices That Sequester Carbon and Increase Resilience Within EQIP and CSP in particular, the practices that receive funding through the IRA tend to accomplish multiple ecological goals. For example, reducing tillage and maintaining in-field residues can reduce the losses of carbon dioxide and may reduce nitrous oxide emissions.

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Food Tank

JUNE 27, 2024

And because food and ag systems are responsible for roughly a third of total greenhouse gas emissions—not to mention the other ecological issues that can result from hyper-industrialized and non-regenerative practices—food advocates need to play vital roles in both taking accountability and building solutions.

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RR2CS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The carbon is being used by the microbes—the ecology of the soil—to do all things: build organic matter, soil structure, increase infiltration, and feed life.” We have been dealing with continuous drought conditions, which can hit the finances hard.” The benefits aren’t just financial, says Tim, but ecological.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Financial institutions, including several UK banks, are also investing in piloting new finance schemes. Ecological Entomology 40, 124–135 (2015). These companies and many others are investing in supporting farmers to adopt more environmentally friendly practices. cattle industry. xvii] Milazzo, F.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

The project’s planners, Bt Farms Foundation , is a diverse team led by Black women with expertise in design, landscape architecture and urban planning, urban agriculture, ecology, geography, real estate, finance and engineering.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

Producer premiums for regenerative products have begun to pop up but, as Bande notes, the financing mechanism must be “way broader” than this. The interest in the impact of agricultural production on emissions and ecology is forcing companies large and small to get closer to their farmers than ever – which is a good thing.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Announced at the Clinton Global Initiative , a gathering where world leaders discuss global challenges, the effort received a steady stream of congratulatory press coverage, including from preeminent seafood publications like Intrafish , Undercurrent and Seafood Source , as well as from mainstream press like GreenBiz and Yahoo Finance.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) , International CPI is an analysis and advisory organization specializing in finance and policy, focused on helping governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive economic growth while addressing climate change. ReFED , United States ReFED is a U.S.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Farming for Mike is about continuous improvement, assessment of finances and hard to measure ecological metrics, and making management decisions that push forward the adoption of regenerative practices, while being mindful of farm transition and conservation planning.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) , Kenya ICIPE conducts research on insects and other arthropods to develop and communicate affordable, accessible solutions to tackle crop pests and disease. Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP) , Haiti With approximately 60,000 members, MPP is the largest peasant movement in Haiti.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

As many portions of the country cannot transition fully to year-round, grass-based livestock systems, we believe it is vital for funding to be dedicated to AMMP technologies to ensure instances where confinement is likely to continue are as ecologically friendly as they can be.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

And integrating these into Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)which countries are scheduled to revise by COP30can help them tap the climate finance needed to make food systems transformation a reality. Called Resilient food futures: agroecology and climate finance for ambitious NDCs 3.0, Africa sets the example.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 28, 2025

At the same time, she was taking online classes through the Managed Grazing Innovation Center , the programs academic component, covering topics like agricultural ecology and soil health. And though the finances of the gradual transfer arent as lucrative as a quick sale to an outside investor, Wagner wouldnt have it any other way.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

FSA is currently unable to offer pre-qualification or pre-approval services for farm ownership loans, yet this service is routinely offered by other lenders working with competing buyers for farm properties, which puts buyers who must use FSA financing at a disadvantage. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503).

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