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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===== | =====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] | [https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01062-3 by Hannah Kamau 29/11/23 communications earth & environment] | ||
