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===== The Powerful Potential Of Tiny Conservation Plots ===== | |||
[https://www.noemamag.com/the-powerful-potential-of-tiny-conservation-plots/?utm_source=noemalinkedin&utm_medium=noemasocial by JOANNA THOMPSON 27/8/24 NOEMA] | |||
For a few seconds, it’s like a scene from a movie: A gentle breeze rustles rows of garlic and carrot plants, tickling my shins. Early summer sun streams through the canopy overhead, leaves throw shade across the nearby squash. | |||
===== Eleven children worked on Iowa pork plant’s ‘kill floor’, US labor officials say ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/child-labor-iowa-pork-plant by Jessica Glenza 3/12/24 The Guardian] | |||
Nearly a dozen children were working shifts cleaning meat processing equipment used at an Iowa pork plant’s so-called kill floor over a four-year period, the US Department of Labor announced. | |||
=====Organic farming is rarely enough===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10519 by Natasha Gilbert 25/4/12 nature] | |||
Conventional agriculture gives higher yields under most conditions. | |||
=====Farming with Alternative Pollinators benefits pollinators, natural enemies, and yields, and offers transformative change to agriculture===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97695-5 by Stefanie Christmann 14/9/21 scientific reports] | |||
Low- and middle-income countries cannot afford reward-based land sparing for wildflower strips to combat pollinator decline. Two small-grant projects assessed, if an opportunity-cost saving land-sharing approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators, can provide a method-inherent incentive to motivate farmers to protect pollinators without external rewards. | |||
=====Aquaculture Critical for Feeding the World in a Changing Climate===== | |||
[https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/aquaculture-food-world-changing-climate/ by Robert Jones 25/1/22 The Conservancy] | |||
The planet has never been under more pressure to increase food production. And this pressure is only set to grow—by as much as 60 percent over the next few decades. At the same time, climate change is threatening food systems around the world, with major questions about future food supply and security, livelihoods, and human nutrition. | |||
=====Solar farms and sheep grazing show how farming and clean energy can share land===== | |||
[https://www.ehn.org/solar-farms-and-sheep-grazing-show-how-farming-and-clean-energy-can-share-land by EHN Curators 2/7/25 EHN] | |||
America is losing farmland at a rate of about 2,000 acres per day, much of it to housing sprawl and industrial growth. As the demand for renewable energy grows, solar companies are increasingly eyeing these same lands for large-scale projects. While solar development raises fears about displacement of food production and ecological harm, the Georgia example shows that clean energy and agriculture don’t have to be at odds. Integrating solar with sheep grazing or pollinator habitats offers a hybrid approach to land use. But this model depends on local policies, utility incentives, and how landowners value long-term income versus short-term gains. | |||
=====Nearly half of the world is suitable for diversified farming for sustainable intensification===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01062-3 by Hannah Kamau 29/11/23 communications earth & environment] | |||
Sustainable intensification, defined as increasing production per unit without harming the environment, has potential to transform agricultural systems. While questions persist about which practices and conditions lead to sustainable intensification, diversification has gained prominence as a proposed solution. Here we apply niche modelling using maximum entropy modelling approach to predict the global spatial distribution of profitable diversified farming systems under different socio-economic conditions. | |||
=====How Crop Insurance Prevents Some Farmers From Adapting to Climate Change===== | |||
[https://civileats.com/2023/09/20/how-crop-insurance-prevents-some-farmers-from-adapting-to-climate-change/ by Grey Moran 20/9/23 CIVIL EATS] | |||
The Federal Crop Insurance Program helps steer the direction of U.S. agriculture. But advocates and farmers say its policies have often failed to benefit the most climate-adaptive farms—and penalizes farmers for adopting some climate-friendly strategies. | |||
=====Pioneering landowners in Norfolk, England are building a more sustainable future for their farms, communities and the planet.===== | |||
[https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/europe/stories-in-europe/restoring-nature-pioneering-farming-england/ by Lucy Carrigan 12/9/23 The Nature Conservancy] | |||
Fennel grows wild in a field, dappled sky behind it, while in front lush verges with wildflowers in abundance. A meadow as the sun sets, dragonflies flit from one plant to another, bees hum in amongst the long grasses immersed in their evening ritual of gathering pollen. Bursts of blues, yellows, purples and reds sway across a bucolic landscape, buffeted by a light evening breeze. | |||
=====Farming feeds the world. We desperately need to know how to do it better===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03694-5 by Adriana Adie 15/11/22 nature] | |||
The honest answer to these questions is that we can’t yet be sure. That’s partly because of a lack of evidence — the needs of small-scale farmers are under-researched, as a project called Ceres2030 reported in 2020 (see go.nature.com/3o5hgl7). What’s more, the rules for evidence in policy for agriculture, food systems and climate adaptation are not as systematic as they are in policy for health and medicine. | |||
=====American Farmers and the USDA Had Finally Embraced Their Role in the Climate Crisis. Then Came the Federal Funding Freeze===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04042025/american-farmers-and-the-usda-had-finally-embraced-their-role-in-the-climate-crisis-then-came-the-federal-funding-freeze/ by Georgina Gustin 4/4/25 Inside Climate News] | |||
Critics say the Trump administration’s halt to billions in conservation spending could cause long-term damage and slow hard-won progress. | |||
=====Farmers Should Choose What They Grow===== | |||
[https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/issues/small-farmers/ by GREENPEACE] | |||
The majority of the food produced in the world is grown through ecological farming methods. More than two billion small farmers produce 70 percent of the food we eat. By preserving ecological farming methods and food sovereignty, farmers can maintain direct relationships with the community to determine what to grow and eat. | |||
=====How a Kansas town became one of the nation’s first majority-Black farming communities===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-a-kansas-town-became-one-of-the-nations-first-majority-black-farming-communitiesby Fred de Sam Lazaro by 7/2/22 PBS NEWS] | |||
The wave of migration across the U.S. in the mid-1800's included people looking to live in open spaces, with land to grow crops and the opportunity to have a better life. After the Civil War, that included freed slaves and their families. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one Kansas town that was established as a result as part of our Black History Month coverage and ongoing series, "Race Matters." | |||
=====Iraq: Islamic State’s destructive legacy decimates Yezidi farming===== | |||
[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2018/12/iraq-islamic-states-destructive-legacy-decimates-yezidi-farming/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 13/10/18] | |||
As part of its brutal campaign against northern Iraq’s Yezidi minority, the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) committed war crimes and crimes against humanity when it sabotaged irrigation wells and destroyed other farming infrastructure, Amnesty International said in a new report today. | |||
=====How rural communities are tackling a suicide and depression crisis among farmers===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-rural-communities-are-tackling-a-suicide-and-depression-crisis-among-farmers by Megan Thompson 14/1/24 PBS NEWS] | |||
More than 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2023, the nation’s highest yearly rate of suicide on record. Farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to the National Rural Health Association. Special correspondent Megan Thompson reports from Wisconsin on the burden farmers often deal with and what’s being done to help them. | |||
=====Amid Severe Drought, Arizona Turns to Sustainable Farming===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2023/07/amid-severe-drought-arizona-turns-to-sustainable-farming/ by Danika Perkinson PBS] | |||
In Arizona, temperatures can soar to a staggering 115º F at the height of the summer. Many crops wither under extreme heat, and farmers are facing a dilemma surrounding an increasingly scarce ingredient: water. | |||
=====Mixed messages on immigration raids from Washington fuel farm workers’ fears===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/farming by PBS NEWS] | |||
After a weekend of national protests over his immigration policy, President Trump says he wants a greater crackdown in some of the nation’s biggest cities. At the same time, the president is pulling back on ICE raids in some major… | |||
=====Indiana’s small, Black farmers struggle to keep their farms running===== | =====Indiana’s small, Black farmers struggle to keep their farms running===== | ||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/indianas-small-black-farmers-struggle-to-keep-their-farms-running by Brock E.W. Turner 8/9/21 PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/indianas-small-black-farmers-struggle-to-keep-their-farms-running by Brock E.W. Turner 8/9/21 PBS NEWS] | ||
