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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. Farmers manage these subsidies of nature on their farmland, free for the public. Indian farmland, at 178 million hectares, is one of the single largest land uses in India.

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It’s not the plough, but the how!

Sustainable Food Trust

It has been estimated that were his mixed farming system to be taken to scale right across the arable east of the UK, the soil carbon sequestered could offset a very significant percentage of total UK greenhouse gas emissions. I find it sinister and rather shocking that the chemical companies refer to pesticides as plant protection products.

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Protecting Iowa’s Farmland: The Importance of Local Food

SILT

At Sustainable Iowa Land Trust (SILT), we believe that protecting Iowa’s farmland is essential to promoting sustainable and just food systems. Local food requires less transportation and storage, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping to mitigate climate change. Local food also offers health benefits for consumers.

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. Yet their pervasive use—along with farmland, plastics cover everything from individual seeds to bales of hay and packaged produce—has allowed them to plant themselves deeply in our food supply.

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Repurposing Cropland Can Bring Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Water Justice to California

The Equation

Hard truth: we have to use farmland differently Strategic cropland repurposing is the change in land use from an economic activity that produces negative side effects (such as harming people’s health and the environment) to new land uses that produce positive side effects. I believe there is: strategic cropland repurposing.

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Are Next-Gen Synthetic Fibers the Future of Sustainable Textiles?

Modern Farmer

Both durable and efficient, with no need for farmland or vast amounts of water, it threatened to leave natural fibers like cotton in the dust. Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. percent of the world’s farmland but uses 4.7 Another big factor is end of life.

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How the Next Generation of Farmers is Getting Creative with Land Access

Modern Farmer

Backyard farms may need infrastructure for things ranging from drip lines and irrigation systems to hoop houses or greenhouses. Tenants agree to not use any pesticides and allow the Wicklers access to the yard. It had contracts in place, and it would pay homeowners for city water use by comparing bills to previous years.