ATTRA

JANUARY 9, 2024

By Justin Duncan, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist For the past couple years, NCAT has worked with the Southern Risk Management Education Center to provide training to farmers on how to better decide which crops to plant based on agroecological methods. The point of agroecological crop selection is mainly input reduction.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We need to rethink our food systems and transition to diversified agroecological systems that can ensure we address this twin challenge, and to provide nutritious diets to a growing population without destroying the planet. However, the country needs to scale-up agroecology and help farmers to make the transition.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A sustainable blue cheese industry needs more microbial diversity. The Open Source Seed Initiative gets written up in The Guardian. Looks like we need something similar for cheese microbes. The Guardian then follows up with mung bean breeding and fart jokes.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Climate Change Conference, Million Belay, General Coordinator for Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa discussed the power of food sovereignty and agroecology. Key to food sovereignty is agroecology, an approach to agriculture that, Belay explains , is a practice, a science, and a social movement.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizations large and small are investing in local farmers, local economies, and agroecology so that Haitians can feed themselves in the long term. Jean-Baptiste has been working with smallholder farmers across the country to promote agroecology as a solution to hunger and poverty for four decades. Hunger in Haiti is not an accident.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Philanthropy can help tilt the incentives needed to usher in a regenerative and agroecological transition that centers farmers and landscape stewards and recognizes a shared set of principles. It is possible to forge a more sustainable path. Articles like the one you just read are made possible through the generosity of Food Tank members.

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Organic Farming Research

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Policy Director, HEAL Food Alliance Nichelle Harriot has over 15 years of federal policy experience working on a range of issues from pesticide regulation to building support for sustainable, organic, and agroecological farming systems and research.

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Sustainable Harvest International

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

SHI was recognized as a leader in the category Climate Resilience for its expansion of carbon-negative agroforestry and other agroecology practices in Central America. A farm in La Pedregosa, Panama after transitioning to agroecology practices with SHI.

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Organic Farming Research

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It highlights the importance of long-term agroecological research in understanding how different farming practices can build resilience against climate change. This article discusses the significant impact of climate change on agriculture, particularly the vulnerability of organic farming systems.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

The need for greater access to land, so that younger generations can have a role in equitable and accessible food production – most particularly in agroecological food production – is critical and demands that we find new pathways beyond ownership to invite their participation.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Through approaches grounded in food sovereignty, agroecology, Black liberation, and grassroots feminisms, both are catalyzing much-needed transformation in food systems – and broader systems – entrenched in exploitation and oppression.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 4, 2022

Partnering with nearly 1,000 farming families in Honduras, SHI has helped restore over 8,000 acres of land by promoting agroecological practices, including the planting of over 2.2 They’ll be able to see agroecology and all its bounteous rewards in practice. million trees. 45% of these graduates are youth.

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Food Tank

JULY 14, 2023

. “A transformation is needed—with social protection schemes that guarantee the right to food for the world’s poorest, debt cancellation, and investment in diverse, resilient agroecological food production.”

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

There are many different schools of thought or different methodologies that people embrace as we do our farm work, and I have borrowed from many, but my favorite is agroecology. Agroecology is an integrated approach that combines ecological and social principles for sustainable agriculture and food systems.

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RR2CS

MARCH 19, 2024

Dedicated to cultivating a thriving local food economy and sustainable farming sector, Just Food integrates agroecology-based conservation with land stewardship. Emphasizing agroecology and land stewardship, the farm champions local food sovereignty and transforms newcomers into farmers through its Start-up Farm Program.

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ATTRA

JULY 15, 2023

Alexis Racelis is an associate professor of agroecology at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a member of NCAT’s Board of Directors. His work helping farmers grow food with less water and under more extreme heat conditions is featured in an article in The Texas Tribune.

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Sustainable Harvest International

JULY 19, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine reveals that now more than ever, we must embrace a food system grounded in local agroecology. These are costs that are very limited or non-existent on small-scale, organic agroecology farms. The recent rise in food prices is buoyed by increased fertilizer, energy, and transport costs. Among the 12.6

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Caff

JANUARY 30, 2023

” Read the full article here: [link] The Small Farm Tech Hub at CAFF looks to support an emergent socio-technical ecosystem orientated around agroecology, strengthening local and regional economies, and contributing to a growing innovation commons. The post Civil Eats Op-ed: Want an Agtech Revolution?

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RR2CS

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Located in Rogersville, New Brunswick, her farm Ferme Terre Partagee currently operates as a coop based on common values and objectives including peasant agroecology and food sovereignty. Fifth generation farmer, Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson believes strongly in the practices of regenerative agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

But where Bergen Community College aims to foster new farmers in a suburban-urban environment through vertical farms and hydroponics, Walla Walla’s program will expand upon an existing agroecology curriculum geared toward its rural students, many of whom may be seeking to bring their education back to family farms or other local agriculture.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 9, 2023

Understanding farmer knowledge and site factors in relation to soil-borne pests and pathogens to support agroecological intensification of smallholder bean production systems. Doesn’t cover banana bunchy top but I’m sure the main conclusion that better modelling and monitoring are needed applies. Using satellites, no doubt.

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RR2CS

JULY 18, 2023

They all seem to be part of the vast landscape of good land stewardship practices, like sustainable agriculture, organic agriculture, agroecology, permaculture, and regenerative agriculture. It’s understandable! Oh, and let’s not forget our personal favorite—agricultural climate solutions. It's understandable!

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The Equation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I feature dry farming in a chapter of my textbook of Agroecology that I used in my teaching at the University of California at Santa Cruz, for over 30 years. Our farm is our personal example of how to do agroecology.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

So, with sessions on a holistic approach, agroecology and food systems transformation, it really makes sense to be here and see what is happening in the sessions within Wales, and in the broader UK and global context as well. I’ve looked at the way that we farm, and I think that we do come under ‘agroecological’, in a sense.

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Food Politics

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This also came in a e-mail, this time a press release from Chocolate Scorecard , a group that rates chocolate companies on practices related to traceability, wages, child labor, deforestation, agroecology, etc. Its key messages: Sustainability claims of chocolate companies cannot necessarily be trusted.

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Sustainable Harvest International

AUGUST 16, 2022

SHI’s plan to expand agroecological training to smallholder farmers through its Million Farm Transformation initiative is a shovel-ready solution to the key global issues of sustainable food security and preserving critical biodiversity ecosystems.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This project will enhance operations of community urban farms, advancement of ancestral and emerging technologies germane to desert agroecology, and increase access to fresh and locally grown produce, while inspiring a new generation of urban agriculture practitioners, farmers, and local food advocates.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Collaborating with farmers, CIEL promotes natural agroecological practices such as crop rotation, legume cultivation, and the use of beneficial insects, fungi, and organic manure instead of chemical additives. Tostad says “it’s super crucial to always be very context-specific, and not even country-specific, but soil-specific.”

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Sustainable Harvest International

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Special in-person events and digital profiles throughout the year highlighted the diverse ecosystem of supporters who forged SHI’s success as a forerunning leader in the field of agroecology and regenerative agriculture.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

To effectively address the profound animal welfare and environmental problems associated with intensive chicken systems, we need to work on getting people to eat chicken raised with the highest standards of welfare from agroecological farming systems. Examples of good practice are already flourishing in organic and agroecological enterprises.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Transitioning the global food system toward more regenerative and agroecological approaches would cost somewhere around US$250–430 billion per year—a high number, yes, but it’s less than 5 percent of the hidden costs of global food and ag systems. Some of the world’s highest emitters, including the U.S., Let’s look at the numbers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

In response, the chapter centers agroecological solutions like enhanced soil health and diversified landscapes. However, organic production, silvopasture, agroforestry and “other agroecological systems” are also listed among solutions. Fortunately, a focus on agroecological solutions has been gaining some traction.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Agroecology Hub With more secure local markets, farmers can focus on production and new tools (and vice-versa). We’re working with Fresno BIPOC Produce to scale up operations as a local aggregator to help farmers reach new markets. Image sourced form civileats.co

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The environmental and financial problems of the hill farming sector have been written about exhaustively, so I won’t expand on them here – other than to say that while hill farming has a central role to play in socially and ecologically vibrant landscapes, a major shift towards agroecological practices is needed to realise this.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Experimenting with water conservation practices at the UTRGV Agroecology Garden and the Hub of Prosperity farm helps our community understand the importance of implementing water conservation projects. This large water tank is connected to a rain gutter and aids in the collection of rainwater that can be used to water the farm’s crops.

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Share Food Program

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Read more → Soil Generation’s Agroecology From the People Land Based Jawns “ Land Based Jawns is rooted in Spirit and the many spiritual practices of our ancestors.” John has worked with national government leaders, organizations across the world, and NBFA members across the country to break down problems and support Black farmers.

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Sustainable Harvest International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Participate or follow along All proceeds from the event will go to SHI’s work with partnering communities as they transition to agroecology practices that nourish people and the planet. You can also follow the journey online, and be sure to tune in to our Interim Executive Director’s interview on November 4th at 9am EST!

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