Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After his public response to Monbiot’s book elicited a response from readers, Smaje saw an opportunity to write about the role of farming, grazing, and rural places in an increasingly unstable and unpredictable future. Another part of my argument is ecological feedback. But it’s also much more than that.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

(Photo credit: Grace Bowie, courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution) Many of the states isolated, rural villages are reachable only by plane and are hit hard when disaster strikes, even if the catastrophes are far away.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

MPP, also known as the Peasant Movement of Papaye, is a social and agricultural movement that advocates for the rights and interests of peasant farmers and rural communities in Haiti. The movement focuses significantly on land reform, food security, and sustainable agriculture from the grassroots level. “It

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Indigenous agriculture relies on an approach to land that is grounded in time-tested, abiding ecological principles rather than technical innovation. “We “The only agriculture left in Arizona after about 20 years will be Indian agriculture,” he says, “because they do have the water rights, they do have the land.”

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UnderstandingAg

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In our rural high schools, almost every FFA kid grew up on a farm and was directly involved in production agriculture. There is a better, more regenerative way forward, and we need to invest in educational resources to bring that knowledge of biology and ecology into mainstream agriculture. Much has also changed.

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RR2CS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When farmers are able to control how, where, and when their animals move between pastures, they can more easily accomplish ecological goals that might include increasing soil carbon, reducing water pollution, or incorporating trees.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A study published by Groundswell international and Partenariat pour le Developpement Local finds that rural farmers in Haiti who engage in agroecology are more than twice as productive, more ecologically positive, and more food secure. It is true that the country is deforested.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress can ultimately see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs through RCPP, as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate. 5102, 5103, 5019, 5110, 5202, 5503, 5402, 112205 ) Title 6 – Rural Development Includes the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie.

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ATTRA

MAY 13, 2024

The USDA Forest Service is partnering with States to conserve nearly 168,000 acres of economically and ecologically significant forestlands across the nation through the Forest Legacy Program. USDA is providing more than $154 million for 26 projects to conserve working forests that support rural economies in 17 states.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The results range from localized drinking water contamination to ecological and economic damage in water bodies far from the source of the pollution. It’s a recurring ecological disaster that causes hardship for people who make their living from fishing, shrimping, and tourism.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

He hadn’t considered including backyard gardens in rural areas in the sample, he said, even though city gardens were. “We We were not necessarily attempting to compare urban and rural food production,” he said. “In It’s almost like comparing apples to oranges,” she said. The community garden is not set up to maximize production.”

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

JANUARY 31, 2024

According to the statute, “It is the policy of this state to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of its waters to protect public health, safeguard fish and aquatic life and scenic and ecological values, and to enhance the domestic, municipal, recreational, industrial, agricultural, and other uses of water.”

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits. Crombie is optimistic that agroforestry will go a long way in restoring land but also rural communities. It’s an exciting opportunity to revive our rural communities.”

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 14, 2023

And yet, restrictive subsistence regulations have left many Alaska Natives in rural areas no choice but to engage in so-called “poaching” to meet their food security needs. ANILCA includes a clause that gives rural Alaska residents an opportunity to harvest fish and wildlife—in simple terms, a subsistence harvest preference.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Many have zero rural experience, connections, or history. We need more people in rural America to make a critical mass that will keep the livestock, equipment, and feed suppliers in business. This new generation of homesteaders is a shot in the arm for rural communities. These newcomers need a why.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This renewed focus came as hybrid seeds, instrumental in the Green Revolution, had led farmers to overlook the potential ecological damage of intensive fertilizer and agrochemical use. We have a problem of under investment in rural infrastructure,” Swaminathan said. Now we have a plateau in production and productivity.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Where are we in the ecological succession? Trees exist in a different ecological succession stage than pioneering stage plants, also known as weeds. Ecological succession is the process by which plant communities change over time, eventually yielding a climax community. I did my graduate work in cotton.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The research from the University of Michigan-led study seems to show that fruit and vegetables grown in urban ag have a carbon footprint six times larger than that of “conventionally grown” food (meaning, on rural farmland). I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Through this film, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) advocates for increased investment in rural communities who are under constant threat from the climate crisis. As Reichl travels the United States, moving from fine dining rooms to rural farmlands, she unveils a series of riveting narratives.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Whereas at one time she advocated organic approaches and specific practices to deal with singular issues with pests or crop fertility, she now fosters a system based on ecological farm design. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Caff

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The recovery process was grueling, but Cheetah not only found an innovative way to treat toxic ash on his site using the power of mushrooms, but he also created Butte Remediation , a non-profit that provides that same service to underserved farmers and rural residents in his community!

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

As the name implies, this is a no-cost system relying on ecological processes to produce the same yields as more expensive conventional systems. In one of the largest to analyze how agro-ecological practices affect productivity in the global south, researchers at the University of Essex in England analyzed 286 projects in 57 countries.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5 We’ve managed to make food much more affordable by mechanising, but in doing so, it’s become ecologically expensive. After all, they only want what’s best for their children. percentile of the general population.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Ecological Impacts of Corn Production and the Ethanol Market Tyler Lark is a scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), where he leads research on U.S. The audience asked about the price of rural land being affected by the ethanol industry.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Marbleseed National Bison Association National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Pesticide Action Network (national, and CA, MN, IA, HI) Simple Mills Soil and Water Conservation Society Union of Concerned Scientists Waterkeeper Alliance Wild Farm Alliance Midwest and South Businesses and Organizations Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (NC, SC) (..)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 21, 2024

We are thankful for Senator Brown’s leadership in building resilient food systems,” commented Milo Petruziello, Policy Director for Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, an NSAC Member. That access is incredibly important for producers trying to scale up and develop more sustainable businesses.

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Sustainable Harvest International

MARCH 25, 2021

Media Contact: Fritz Schneider fschneider.clarkcommunications@gmail.com 301.728.4811 For Immediate Release March 25, 2021 A Plan to Scale Up Impact in Central America + Beyond to Increase Farm Productivity with Ecological Practices that Benefit People and the Planet. million children, suffering from acute malnutrition, living in rural areas.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. With its abundant sunshine, I assumed lots of rural folks would be investing in solar panels to make up for the rolling blackouts. Couple that with anti-ecology and you have a recipe for dysfunction. Who needs knick-knacks?

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this sense, California Plowshares is a return to the kind of rural sharing economies that once arose naturally between farmers in tight-knit communities but have become much less common in recent years. We thought it was so stupid to have all this steel sitting in the field that we were using just twice a year.”

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But it’s generated some pretty negative outcomes, including widespread degradation of land, water, and ecosystems, leaving rural communities gutted and left to the tumbleweeds. Until then, it seems to me a comprehensive, ecological approach is what’s needed. We know that industrial monocultures achieve high yields for global markets.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.

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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

This year we heard from over 550 farmers and land stewards, from a wide range of voices across California from urban to rural, small and mid-sized, with a diversity of racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Many rural farmers are suffering from the drought and have had their well dry up or their surface water completely cut off.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

Sprawled out on the ground atop well-worn petates (woven-fiber mats) or seated on low stools, the farmers showed off their hard-earned ears of corn, yes, but also laid out carefully arranged piles of smooth, shiny beans, bowls of bright red and yellow chile peppers, verdant heaps of string beans and many more crops.

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Daily Yonder

MAY 14, 2024

We see enormous potential to both keep land in agricultural production but also to achieve these kinds of ecological benefits,” Robertson-DuBois said. Emmett Gartner covers accountability and Maine’s rural communities as a Roy W. The technology is there, he said, but there are two main challenges. It’s a whole different world.”

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