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Dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference: Saturday, Nov. 16

Food Tank

As I’ve mentioned, a major solution being discussed here in Baku is financing, and we saw even more progress toward investment yesterday. We can no longer clear all the trees, cannot allow our soils to degrade, cannot fertilize without care.” We can no longer take food for granted. We need global action, to be sure.

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Nurturing a Path to Success for Small, Sustainable Sheepherders

Food Tank

“He said, ‘I’ll help you with school, but my one stipulation is that you cannot take any animal science classes. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ It had been such a bad run of finances that he said to just get out,” says Wahl.

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

The farm is not a nonprofit organization, so Schreiner depends largely on small one-off grants, crowdfunding, and limited wholesale revenue to finance Sakari’s many efforts—all of which center on traditional ecological knowledge. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Precision Ag News 9/7

Agwired

Joining Brian on the executive leadership team is recently announced chief financial officer and vice president of finance, David Pugh, who began August 7. Brian Barker has been named the chief executive officer and president of AgReliant Genetics, effective August 31.

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The Top 10 Careers in Agriculture

Farmbrite

Their primary function is to manage the finances, make sure all equipment is working properly, hire and fire employees and oversee marketing and sales. Agricultural engineers must be skilled in soil science, physics and chemistry as well as computer modeling techniques.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. Around that time, Strey and her husband and cofounder, Robert, were teaching farmers in Gambia how to make organic fertilizer through a nonprofit they had started called Green Desert.