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Federal Climate Policy: Agriculture Resilience Act Re-Introduced

CalCAN

The plowing of agricultural land during the 19th and 20th century released vast stores of carbon dioxide , only a small part of which has since been returned to the soil. The previous National Academy of Sciences study on links between human and soil health has been deleted, as it is already under way.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

These practices include reducing or eliminating tilling of soil, planting “cover crops” that grow during the off-season and are not harvested, improving how farmers use fertilizer and manure, and planting trees. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We 28, 2019. “But