Food Tank

JULY 20, 2024

Ustawi Afrika is working to improve gender equity for rural women and expand sustainable agricultural practices in Kenya. Doreen Irungu founded Ustawi Afrika after watching her mother struggle as a woman in agriculture in a semi-arid, rural area. According to UN Women , over 60 percent of people living in rural Kenya are women.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 18, 2023

That’s a question Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs corn specialist Ben Rosser has been hearing a lot lately as many areas of the province have been dealt a deluge of rain. Read More Can heavy July rains fuel nitrogen leaching and push the valuable nutrient beyond the reach of corn plant roots?

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In a rural area, that same mile of cable might connect a single family, so ISPs aren’t financially incentivized to run cable in those regions. Meinrath says when you get down into the data, you find that the majority of people who aren’t connected to the internet are rural Americans and the poorest in the country.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 13, 2023

On this episode of the RealAgriculture Corn School, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs soil fertility specialist Colin Elgie shares nitrogen strategy tips for growers as. Read More

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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Agric4profits

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Jute farming is vital for many rural communities, providing income and employment to millions of farmers. Jute is a rain-fed crop, requiring minimal pesticides and fertilizers compared to other commercial crops. Jute plants grow quickly, with a harvest period of about 4-6 months, making it an excellent crop for seasonal farming.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 18, 2024

By greening the desert and the drylands you could dramatically increase soil fertility, retain and store rainfall, restore landscapes and biodiversity, reforest semi-desert areas, regenerate rural livelihoods, and eventually restabilize the climate. I could hardly fall asleep. This book is Cummins’ living memorial.

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Daily Yonder

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In a rural area, that same mile of cable might connect a single family, so ISPs aren’t financially incentivized to run cable in those regions. Meinrath says when you get down into the data, you find that the majority of people who aren’t connected to the internet are rural Americans and the poorest in the country.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Local manufacturing of bio-inputs including fertilizers, bio- pesticides, and inoculants is booming. Climate resilience requires broad participation from the most vulnerable farmers who are rural women dependent on natural resources for their well-being. These markets are large and important to local producers.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It can also promote healthier soil, reduce pest problems, and boost rural economies. Integrating livestock with crops can create a closed-loop system where manure provides fertilizer and reduces reliance on external inputs. Incorporating indigenous vegetables into our local farming system can disrupt this pattern.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Crop rotation enhances soil fertility, minimizes erosion, disrupts pest and disease cycles, and reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers. The legumes replenish nitrogen in the soil, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers while also improving soil structure and reducing pest and disease pressure. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. A primary cause of these nonpoint sources is runoff from nitrogen fertilizer on cropland. full_link LEARN MORE Find out why climate change has intensified fertilizer runoff.

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Food Tank

APRIL 1, 2025

Jokalante, for example, was founded by rural Senegalese woman Ndeye Amy Kebe who is well versed in these challenges. Last year, I wasnt part of the cooperative, and I bought 10 bags of fertilizer, she says with pain in her eyes. I went to apply the fertilizer in the field, and then it rained heavily and it all got washed away.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oregon Department of Agriculture & Rural Development is seeking a dedicated professional to join the team as the Water Quality Compliance Program Manager.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 7, 2025

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different from the endless rows you see in much of rural North America. Hopi corn thrives without fertilizers, herbicides, mulch, or irrigation. We dont do your typical 14-inch spaced rows, he says.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Food Tank

MARCH 19, 2025

Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America by Sonja Trom Eayrs Attorney and farmers daughter Eayrs chronicles the long history of havoc wreaked by corporate farms on rural communities. And Hawken reveals what possibilities the element may open up in the future.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This translates to healthier food and a healthier environment and reduces reliance on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. For instance, farmers in the Southern region face acidic, low-fertility soils, intense weed, pest, and disease pressures, along with marketing and infrastructure constraints. Managing weeds, diseases, and pests.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Displaced from the Land As Euro-Americans settled permanently on the most fertile North American lands and acquired seeds that Native growers had carefully bred, they imposed policies that made Native farming practices impossible. food supply harms the environment, rural communities and human health and safety in many ways.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Roland Royer , Dominica Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Blue and Green Economy; Fernando Mattos , Uruguay Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries; Elena Xochitl Ramirez Reivich , Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mexico (SADER); and Margaret Zeigler , IICA. Say it loud: Rural women are our everyday heroes!”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

When you look at the environmental degradation, like the seepage of nitrogen fertilizer into water systems, simply having the ability to know exactly how much fertilizer and water should go on the plants is the best way to avoid that.” “One of the issues that precision agriculture gets to is the overuse of inputs,” Orr says.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced a new Green Fertilizer Grant Program that will support agricultural and rural electric cooperatives to invest in green fertilizer manufacturing.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The country has pioneered a move towards agroecology for two decades and has already seen a 4 percent improvement in rural food security. Smallholders are witnessing the recovery of the fertility and moisture levels of their soils, higher productivity and competitiveness.

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Daily Yonder

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Some CAFOs can produce as much waste as a small city, but without comparable waste management infrastructure, rural communities face health, economic, and environmental hazards. Large cities are often cited as major culprits when it comes to waste and pollution, but a CAFO in a rural area can compete with even a midsize metropolis. “A

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Todays Farmer Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2023

The state’s rural suicide rate is growing faster than in urban counties, increasing 78% between 2003 and 2017. With a four-year grant commitment from the MFA Foundation, University of Missouri Extension will have new avenues to support rural communities in need of mental health assistance.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

1) Agrochemical production consumes fossil fuels to generate pesticides, fertilizers, and other inputs. But rural America still relies on electrical co-ops , which depend mostly on fossil fuels. ” In addition, pesticides and fertilizers are derived from fossil fuels. There is some hope for change, though.

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The Equation

MARCH 28, 2023

I may be a romantic, but I firmly believe that we can reimagine agriculture, rural disadvantaged communities and the environment in a way that makes everyone happy. I have engaged with hundreds of stakeholders in rural California, agreeing often and disagreeing sometimes.

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The Equation

MAY 13, 2024

One very important piece of information missing from the State of the Air report is air quality data for farmworker communities and other rural areas in the United States or California. These monitors are very expensive and largely absent from small rural communities. Source: California Natural Resources Agency.

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ATTRA

APRIL 1, 2024

USDA is investing $124 million in renewable energy and fertilizer production projects , through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP).

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

The team estimated the environmental and socioeconomic costs and benefits of retiring and repurposing cropland within a mile of 154 rural disadvantaged communities in the Central Valley. Example of cropland within and one mile around several rural disadvantaged communities in Tulare County. square miles).

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ATTRA

JANUARY 24, 2024

USDA announced that it is awarding $207 million in 42 states for projects through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Fertilizer Production Expansion Program (FPEP). farmers increase independent, domestic fertilizer production. Meanwhile, the seven projects financed through FPEP will help U.S.

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The Equation

MAY 11, 2023

Coupled with excessive use of fertilizer , which has increased dramatically over the last four decades, this creates major water-quality problems, as the fertilizer runs off into waterways and leaches into groundwater. Fertilizer runoff can also affect urban communities downstream.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Letter Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader Jeffries: The undersigned agricultural organizations are deeply invested in the well-being of our rural and agricultural communities, and we write today to urge you to prioritize and support the swift passage of a bipartisan farm bill this year.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As more people pour into metropolises—urban populations are projected to double in the next three decades, according to the World Bank —scientists like Bousselot are investigating how designers and planners can ruralize cities, greening roofs, and empty lots. What we should probably focus on is resilience overall.” “The

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As well as growing food, farmers are tasked with delivering a broad spectrum of ‘public goods’ – from wildlife habitat and healthy soils to public access and rural employment. Is it the period 1750-1850 when most of the present rural features were planted or built? The money to sustain the rural environment.

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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. Much has also changed. That has changed dramatically, following the same general decline in farm numbers here in the U.S.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Some of this is easily quantified: grazing livestock are, for example, an important source of employment in rural areas, providing vital economic opportunities in some of the country’s most fragile communities. ” We know that we can manage our grasslands in a way that works for rural communities and the environment alike.

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