Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

The issue most cited across critiques was simple: When urban farms were separated from community gardens in the study, the higher rate of greenhouse gas emissions reported essentially disappeared. Overall, they found greenhouse gas emissions were six times higher at the urban sites—and that’s the conclusion the study led with.

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ATTRA

APRIL 16, 2024

Introduction COMET-Planner is a web-based greenhouse gas (GHG) evaluation tool used to provide modelled estimates of the greenhouse gas impacts of certain conservation practices utilized across various agricultural landscapes. To answer that question, we use a tool called COMET-Planner. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 26, 2023

Since its launch in 2020, the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production (OUAIP) has invested over $50 million in urban, suburban, and rural areas, strengthening networks of growers and consumers through infrastructure, education, and local planning initiatives.

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Food Tank

JUNE 19, 2024

Recent episode topics include healthy school meals, gender inequality in rural communities, and the cost of malnutrition. Hot Farm Food and agriculture systems are responsible for roughly one third of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Episodes cover issues ranging from food allergies and climate-smart cooking to “momfluencers.”

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That’s good for rural communities as well as the planet.” Producers interested in learning more can visit the Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership website (fiberpartnership.ncat.org) and fill out an interest form.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Investing in organic research provides farmers, both certified organic and non-certified, with innovative solutions and practical tools that enhance profitability, mitigate financial and ecological risks, and foster economic growth and social well-being in rural communities. Maintaining yields and managing production costs.

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Wisconsin Farmers Union

APRIL 8, 2024

The rice was grown using climate-smart practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60-95% and reduce water use by at least 33%. Vilsack spoke about the challenges that farmers and rural communities are facing, commenting that, “Agriculture is the only industry where you can be the very best and still not make a living.”

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That environmental focus that our generation has latched onto,” says their grandson Tom Walton, picking up the narration from his uncle in the marketing video posted by the Walton Family Foundation in 2018, “Sam and Helen taught us at an early age.” But alas, the country’s relationship with food is changing—and Walmart wants in.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas – 84 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in driving global warming over a 20-year time span. For 12 years, we have worked alongside farmers to make a real, quantifiable impact on greenhouse gas emissions while improving the air quality in rural communities,” said Grant Zimmerman, CEO of Amp Americas.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Rufino Vargas walked along the border of his greenhouse, on the westside of Detroit this summer, collecting chili peppers. Ortega Urban Farms, which Vargas built from scratch over two decades on a pair of vacant lots, is a labor of love rooted in his rural childhood, where agricultural techniques were part of the family lore.

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Agwired

AUGUST 30, 2023

Camelina protects land like a cover crop providing a range of environmental benefits, including soil health and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. By supporting farmers and offering a sustainable source of fuel and animal feed, this partnership represents a win-win for producers, the environment, and the rural economy.

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Agwired

MARCH 18, 2024

The head of EPA’s new Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Rod Snyder addressed the 13th American Coalition for Ethanol DC Fly-in last week and had a lot to talk about of interest to ethanol stakeholders, not the least of which was updates to the GREET model for implementation of Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.

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Food Tank

JULY 7, 2023

New York is also investing in local food infrastructure like Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, which is getting US$130 million to modernize and remain competitive. The Milan Urban Food Policy Pact helps unite city leaders to transform their food systems, build urban-rural connections, and fight the climate crisis.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

With $3,000 allocated for equipment and many hours spent watching YouTube tutorials, he built a steady farmers market following, selling tender, week-old pea, sunflower, radish and broccoli sprouts. Now 27, DiLillo has seen his business blossom.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

Farming is also an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Side by side with that loss of diversity was a long growth in greenhouse gas emissions that has only recently begun to be addressed. In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Photo credit: Transfarmation / Mercy For Animals) Paula Boles of JB Farms and Grace Chapel Greenhouses says: “ The first thing that I would advise them to do is just do research. They hear] from Big Ag that these contracts and these growers, they’re building strong rural economies and creating jobs and feeding the world, etc.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Finding the market for a new product was one of the most difficult parts, says Faaborg. Faaborg’s goal is to showcase that it is possible to convert hog barns to do a different kind of farming, and in doing so create jobs and revitalize the local rural economy. Her goal is to one day be able to work in the greenhouse full-time. “I

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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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Wisconsin Farmers Union

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the key points are: The National Farmers Union has supported the ethanol industry as it has helped farmers maintain a stronger market and has reduced the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation industry. Overall the ethanol market has had an effect on the price of corn as well as on other crops.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 13, 2024

However, the outlook for the rural economy is more volatile and uncertain. According to a comprehensive year-ahead outlook report from CoBanks Knowledge Exchange , the high level of policy uncertainty facing rural industries adds to their already long list of headwinds and challenges. soybean farmers. 30, 2025, from 8:00 a.m.

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National Young Farmers Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2024

At the same time, it jeopardizes our country’s food security and threatens the vitality of our urban and rural communities. Current business and market-related policies should evolve to clearly recognize and include the diversity of farming operations this new generation is modeling. With the average age of U.S.

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RR2CS

JANUARY 13, 2022

They grow a wide range of field and greenhouse vegetables and herbs, and sell their organic produce to customers through a summer and fall Farm Share program , and as well, at Edmonton’s Strathcona Farmer’s Market. In 2009, Sundog Organic Farm was born and they set up a booth at the Downtown farmer’s market in Edmonton.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Despite USDA’s strong focus on fair markets and increasing opportunities for underserved producers, most procurement contracts are held by a small number of corporations largely due to pressure on USDA’s purchasing authority to consider cost above all else.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 28, 2023

Last year, when temperatures exceeded 100 degrees in southwestern Kansas, roughly 2,000 cattle in the state died; the Kansas Livestock Association estimated each cow to be worth $2,000 if they were market-ready, equaling an economic loss of $4 million. But at this point, I don’t think we have any silver bullets anymore.”

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

According to Thompson, the credit for the pilot concept belongs to RIPE (Rural Investment to Protect our Environment). Producers also will be able to market their climate-smart commodities to the American public through certificates with tracking numbers. billion in funding for 70 climate-smart projects.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Building markets, and key infrastructure, for cover crops such as oats and peas will also help facilitate their wider adoption. And finally, many farmers want to see a guaranteed market to sell their crops into - ideally one that carries a premium for regeneratively-grown products.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

He and his compañeras and compañeros (or compas, as they call each other) named their co-op Tierra y Libertad (Land and Freedom)—in honor of the rallying cry of Mexico’s rural revolution of 1910–20. ” The co-op began looking to the workers’ Indigenous culture to find new products to grow, and a market for them.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Estrella “Esther” Penunia, the secretary general of the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development, called consolidation a “big problem” and talked about transforming the food system to “shift the power to the people.” Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to advance AIM for Climate, a joint U.S.-U.A.E

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 15, 2023

While farmers like Fischer are avid proponents of the need to address greenhouse gas emissions, others may be less certain about that need. Despite experiencing a spring with no rain, he has persisted and is increasingly finding markets for his nuts. He does not till his farm, and he plants extensive cover crops.

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Food Tank

JULY 8, 2023

Bainbridge The escalating levels of greenhouse gas emissions are posing severe threats and escalating global disasters. The book traces the transformation of colonial wines from their initial rejection by British consumers to their eventual acceptance due to strategic marketing and post-war societal changes. Fischer Edward F.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 22, 2023

The Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) includes provisions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by supporting farmers and ranchers with farm-driven, science-based means to meet climate goals. NSAC has supported the introduction of two pieces of legislation that address these local and regional food systems needs.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 5, 2024

This is just wonderful for greenhouse gas emissions. Our household is in rural New York state, and we are lucky to have land with good soil where we can dump our compost. In other words, when we eat out, we throw out more. Most of the tossed food ends up in landfills, making up 24 percent of municipal solid waste. is composted.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2024

So many farmers across the nation are stuck at an impossible place right now if they want to stay competitive in their industry, they have to respond to markets and at present those markets don’t favor climate-friendly farming.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The food security part of this plan aims to increase local food production—on rural farms, city farms, backyard gardens and community gardens. “We We’ve been talking to a number of different communities around Oregon who are interested in replicating our market model in their community,” says O’Neill. “We’re

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

For her, the priority is “bringing a solution to the market that can also be localized.” emits greenhouse gas equal to that of 50 million gas-powered cars. Climate-resilient rural communities. And of course, this might mean we have to challenge some preconceived notions. Start composting: via NRDC : Food waste in the U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. For almost 17 years, Amazonian Farms has been transforming local methods for the appropriation and use of Amazonian resources, with rural families actively participating. About 18 of our families always show up.

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