Ecology Food Plowing 
Daily Yonder
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Supported by a food-for-work strategy developed by the World Food Program and the Ethiopian government, Abebe and his neighbors began terracing their gently sloping land and digging shallow water pans to collect rainwater whenever it came. As the rains vanished and temperatures soared, the topsoil hardened like pavement.
The Equation
MAY 11, 2023
As climate change continues and farming areas get hotter and drier—as expected in the Southern Great Plains and Southwest—erosion could increasingly take the form of dust storms when bone-dry fields are plowed. It’s a recurring ecological disaster that causes hardship for people who make their living from fishing, shrimping, and tourism.
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Modern Farmer
DECEMBER 20, 2024
full_link LEARN MORE How farmers are adapting to Phoenix’s rising temperatures to keep growing food. But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. It’s complicated.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Animals, both on land and in the waters, have a harder time migrating to food or to mate when surrounded by roads. Your book talks a lot about “road ecology.” Ben Goldfarb: Road ecology is the field of scientific study that looks at how roads and other transportation infrastructure affect nature and what we do about those impacts.
Modern Farmer
JANUARY 28, 2025
Some relied on prairie dogs for nourishment during thin times, or used them as a ceremonial food. But European settlers were remarkably effective at shooting and poisoning prairie dogs and plowing up their burrows. Residents periodically pop out of doors to grab food, gossip about the neighbors and scan for danger.
The Equation
MAY 15, 2023
Industrial agricultural practices such as tillage (plowing) and leaving fields bare between growing seasons degrade soil structure, reduce water infiltration, lower water storage capacity, and increase runoff (the flow of water across the soil’s surface).
National Young Farmers Coalition
OCTOBER 11, 2023
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