National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. Conservation and Climate The benefits of on-farm conservation programs are widespread.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In comparison to the enormous opportunity that sustainable and organic agriculture represents for farmers and rural communities, federal investment in related research, education, and extension has been minuscule. This problem has grown over the past several decades.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are rural, urban, and suburban,” she said. Against the backdrop of a carefully managed perennial pasture, the gathering focused on legislative approaches to promoting regenerative farming and ranching practices, which the group believes can galvanize support across partisan and rural-urban divides. We are female; we are male.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Inflation is leading families to cut back on meals and farmers to cut back on seeds and fertilizers. 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.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 9, 2024

She explains that part of her work is saving the seeds from different types of fruit, both to trade with other farmers as well as to grow into trees that she sells. There are two major threats to criolla [native] seeds today,” said Fuentes. And that is why we save seeds.” Under both of these threats, species can go extinct.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As a young scientist, he helped develop wheat seeds that helped end famine and propelled India to more than triple its annual crop in just 15 years. 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.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Now it becomes a perennial living mulch to direct seed or transplant cash crops into. Clover grows aggressively at the beginning of the season, Lincoln told me, so it’s best to direct seed or transplant vegetables into the clover in late May or after (he’s in Massachusetts), when the clover growth slows and competition is reduced.

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The Lunatic Farmer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In 2020, seed companies sold out. 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.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s often one of the only ways kids and adults alike can interact with nature, see where their food comes from and witness the magic of a seed sprouting. I see that shift happening already on farms both urban and rural, big and small.

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Caff

JANUARY 27, 2021

Only weeks later they were sharing their hard-learned lessons with fellow farmers on webinars, even meeting with policymakers to guide future wildfire prevention programs for rural areas. For a farm that just wrapped up its third season, we can’t wait to see what’s next.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

But where Bergen Community College aims to foster new farmers in a suburban-urban environment through vertical farms and hydroponics, Walla Walla’s program will expand upon an existing agroecology curriculum geared toward its rural students, many of whom may be seeking to bring their education back to family farms or other local agriculture.

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

Graydon Garner, Rod’s son-in-law, is new to the ranch, but equally as committed to the tenets of soil health and environmental conservation, while introducing new strategies on the land, including using their sheep as an ecological management tool for weed control. In April 2021, Rod, Graydon, and family, received the J.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. Caquetá has one of Colombia’s highest rates of deforestation.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. Without robust funding for public research that promotes ecologically-based production systems, scientific and technical innovation is stifled, and U.S.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Residents of Southwest Philly can also get low-cost raised garden beds , soil and seed starts from Sankofa to start growing their own food at home, or can sign up to join Sankofa’s on-site community garden. In 2022, Philly Forests began a school garden and mini food forest at EW Rhodes K-8 School in North Philadelphia.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, to losing entire crops as a result of erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. There are a few important things to understand about the IRA.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Often in the form of guaranteed minimum prices, these interventions create artificial demand for commodities like corn, and incentivize farmers to plant “fencerow to fencerow”, even when it might not otherwise be economically or ecologically sensible to do so.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

As founder of the “Once and Future Green”, Michelle trains and consults Frontline communities, governments, and philanthropy to forward community-driven solutions with transformative anti-oppression and ecological design tools.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

As your committees consider Appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for FY2026, we respectfully request $1.877 billion for ARS salaries and expenses, which represents a five percent increase over the FY2025 level.

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NASDA

APRIL 1, 2025

As your committees consider Appropriations for the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies for FY2026, we respectfully request $1.877 billion for ARS salaries and expenses, which represents a five percent increase over the FY2025 level.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA empowers small-scale farmers, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and rural communities across Asia through advocacy, capacity building, and knowledge sharing. Every seed is important.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 10, 2024

Last week, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC), alongside 97 food, farm, conservation, and rural organizations, delivered a letter to Congressional Appropriators urging them to fully fund the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) at $60 million in fiscal year (FY) 2025.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Asian Farmers Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) , Asia AFA works to empower and strengthen the capacities of leaders and technical staff to increase resilience and combat hunger. Nobody wants farmers in urban and rural contexts to go hungry,” Reverend Eugene Cho, CEO and President of Bread for the World tells Food Tank.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

Essays touch on the rural communities that have adapted to the growing industry, the role of women in the sector, and how Indonesia fits into the global seaweed market. Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. fishing and hunting culture. What if CAFOs Were History?:

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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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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Himalayan balsam spreads millions of tiny seeds that reach every nook and cranny of hedges and wild scrubby areas, which means that humans (often in combination with a handheld machine) are the most practical way to tackle the job. Obsolete machinery in rural Wales Now consider the fact that ChatGPT 4.5

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Jenna also opens up about her experience as a BIPOC farmer and land steward in Alberta, and the importance of creating accessibility for marginalized communities to access land to grow food, forage, and save seeds, while participating in dialogue on land stewardship and climate change. Why are there not more BIPOC seed keepers?

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RR2CS

APRIL 18, 2022

We decided to call the farm ‘Redtail Farms’ as an ode to my father and his love for birds and ecology — and the way he farmed as closely with nature as he could,” says Griebel. They are committed to farming with nature, not against it, and restoring the natural grassland ecology. It doesn’t need to be weeded, or seeded, or planted.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Rebel Ventures puts youth at the center of innovating nutritious, enjoyable meals for Philadelphia students, while the Yum Yum Bus , the brainchild of school nutrition workers, ensures that all children who need summer meals get them in rural North Carolina. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Goldthwaite The coeditors of Good Eats , both English professors and authors, have gathered a selection of creative nonfiction essays that requires “ecological thinking and a close attention to relationships, the environment, and diversity.” The book exceeded my expectations.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2025

But as a changing climate brings increasing drought and aridification to the Southwest, time-tested solutions like this one could hold the key to mitigating the worst impacts of climate change, especially in rural communities. “They have been adapting to changes in water and land for 400 years.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2025

Crop prices plummeted and interest rates on operating loans which farmers take in the spring to pay for inputs like seed and fertilizer, then pay back after harvest were over 20 percent. The situation is prime for another rash of mental health emergencies in rural America. He got through the winter and started to improve.

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