Greenhouse Livestock Mechanics 
Food Tank
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Securing seeds and equipment and building climate-smart infrastructure like greenhouses, requires funding. As mentioned earlier, a diversified farm isn’t reliant on the success of a single crop or livestock type. The shift toward farm diversification has its share of challenges, of course.
Food Tank
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. Switching to agroecology offers a way to produce food within diverse landscapes growing and nurturing different crops, livestock and fisheries suited to the conditions and communities that live in the area.
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UnderstandingAg
OCTOBER 2, 2024
While the motivation to reduce the amount of methane released into the Earth’s atmosphere may be admirable, the millions upon millions of dollars spent chasing the red herring of livestock rumen microbial methane emissions is not. There is fossil carbon in the form of natural gas (methane), oil and coal.
Food Environment and Reporting Network
DECEMBER 20, 2024
flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
While many of these priorities – such as agricultural climate adaptation and mitigation, MMRV of greenhouse gas emissions, and public cultivar development – are important additions to improve AFRI’s focus on agroecological research, without increased funding, AFRI will be limited in its ability to address these new priority areas.
CalCAN
MARCH 27, 2023
Farmers and ranchers in our network have lost crops, livestock, and structures, been evacuated (some multiple times), and had their operations disrupted by smoke, public safety power shutoffs, or loss of insurance. These high-intensity, uncontrolled wildfires are both exacerbated by and contribute to climate change.
Civil Eats
AUGUST 28, 2023
Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Synthetic fertilizer production and use meanwhile contributes 2 percent of global GHG emissions annually, while livestock accounts for nearly one-third of all human-caused methane gas emissions in the U.S.—though
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