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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

And yet, what we have learned from our African colleagues is that without simultaneously investing in healthy local markets, these investments in sustainable production are likely to fall short. Local markets are climate resilient. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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Brainfood: Private finance, Public finance, Land sparing, Land sharing, Trade-offs, Ecological intensification, Metaverse, Crop failure

Agricultural Biodiversity

Ecological intensification of agriculture through biodiversity management: introduction. Land sharing isn’t all that bad actually. Biodiversity and pollination benefits trade off against profit in an intensive farming system. Land sharing needs financial incentives. Here we go again. Yeah but that’s only one example.

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IPES-Food Report Highlights the Importance of Territorial Markets

Food Tank

It finds that territorial markets can help build food security and resilience across the globe in a system corrupted by corporate-controlled supply chains. Territorial markets offer an alternative to corporate-controlled supply chains and an avenue to a resilient global food system, the report states.

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Introducing the 2025 California Farm Champions!

Caff

As a participant in the BIOS program run by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Russ collaborated with fellow orchard farmers to share best practices for ecological farming, furthering his commitment to environmental stewardship. Jaclyns dedication extends beyond the markets through her leadership in the Apple Core Project Inc.,

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Our Best Community Food Solutions Stories of 2024

Civil Eats

Native Youth Learn to Heal Their Communities Through Mycelium Spirit of the Sun is using traditional ecological knowledge to help address food insecurity and connection to culture. EnerWealth Solutions wants to bring the benefits of renewable energy to Black farmers and landowners in the Carolinas.

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Letter supporting farm bill orphan programs

NASDA

These vital programs operate in all fifty states and a failure to fund them in a farm bill or farm bill extension in 2024 negatively impacts countless farmers, ranchers, and food system stakeholders.

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Now Hiring: Organic Project Contractor

Caff

Currently, our programming is focused on four areas: Farm to Market, Policy & Advocacy, Farmer Services, and Ecological Farming. We commit to advancing racial, gender, and environmental justice in our larger systems, as well as in our own workplace. To learn more about CAFF, our history, and our core values, visit [link].