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A revolution for our soil
Degraded soil can be repaired, and replenished with nutrients, until it produces abundant harvests at lower costs, while removing carbon from the atmosphere, and putting it back into the ground. This is the optimistic message of David Montgomery’s book, Growing a Revolution.
United States of America
2024 - Access Agriculture
Газетная статья
Who and what gets recognized in digital agriculture: agriculture 4.0 at the intersectionality of (Dis)Ableism, labor, and recognition justice
This paper builds on prior critical scholarship on Agriculture 4.0—an umbrella term to reference the utilization of robot-ics and automation, AI, remote sensing, big data, and the like in agriculture—especially the literature focusing on issues relating to equity and social sustainability. Critical agrifood scholarship has spent considerable energy interrogating who
gets what, how...
United States of America
2024 - Food Systems Institute, Colorado State University
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Fertile Ground
Scaling agroecology from the ground up
There are about 2.5 billion people in the world, on 500 million farms, involved with smallholder family agriculture and food production. Their creative capacity to farm productively and sustainably with nature, instead of against it, is perhaps the most powerful force that can be unleashed to overcome the interlinking challenges...
Brazil - Burkina Faso - Ecuador - Ghana - Haiti - Honduras - Mali - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - United States of America
2023 - Groundswell International
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Agroecology Blooms in Vermont: Announcing the UVM Institute for Agroecology
The Institute’s approach to agroecology focuses on understanding and designing food systems to regenerate the environment, cool the planet, and provide good, healthy food for all. Agroecology is rooted in indigenous practices and ancestral knowledge, which are combined with scientific approaches to reimagine how our food systems can and should...
United States of America
2023 - Agroecology Now
个案研究
Sustainable food systems multi-stakeholder mechanisms: contributions to the environmental agenda
Food systems are major contributors, but also critically vulnerable, to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. The food sector uses more natural resources than any other sector, which means that the way in which food systems are governed has direct consequences for how natural resources...
Belgium - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - France - India - Madagascar - United States of America
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development
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Institute for Agroecology (IFA)
The University of Vermont (USA) launches a new Institute for Agroecology (IFA) that works with and for farmers, Indigenous people, social movements, and communities who are driving change in Vermont and around the world. Through research, learning, and action, IFA mobilizes knowledge to nurture agroecology research, practice, and movements.
United States of America
2023 - The University of Vermont (USA)
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Climate Change and its Impact on Agriculture
It was a difficult summer for Lynn Swanson, a farmer in Whidbey Island, Washington. It was hot and it hardly rained. Where fertile fields once stretched into the distance, a silent but ever-present crisis has been unfolding – climate change. Farmers, dating back generation after generation, are now fighting to...
United States of America
2023
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Transforming to a regenerative U.S. agriculture: the role of policy, process, and education
U.S. agriculture is both a major source of global food and a key contributor to multiple interconnected crises. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and severe impacts on soil and water quality are among the challenges caused by U.S. industrial agriculture. Regenerative methods of farming are necessary to confront all these challenges...
United States of America
2022 - Sustainability Science
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Soil for a living planet
In a refreshingly optimistic book, ‘The soil will save us’, Kristin Ohlson explains how agriculture could stop emitting carbon, and instead remove it from the air and place it in the soil.
United States of America
2022 - Access Agriculture
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Hybrid course: ''Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and social movements'', on January 2023
This program of the University of Vermont is designed to examine potential pathways towards the sustainable transformation of our current agrifood system by integrating economic, social, and ecological perspectives.
Rooted in ''Participatory Action Research'' (PAR), the program will guide the students to identify key questions and practice new methods for integrating data from...
United States of America
2022 - University of Vermont
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Amplifying agroecology in Vermont: Principles and processes to foster food systems sustainability
Agroecology represents a model system that supports the environment by offering an approach to food production that enhances biodiversity, builds ecological resilience, improves soil diversity, reduces the use of natural resources, and provides a healthy environment for the planet. It is increasingly recognized as an effective system that generates a...
United States of America
2021 - Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative, University of Vermont 2 Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont 3 Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont 4 Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont 5 Environmental Program, University of Vermont 6 Center for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Vermont 7 UVM Extension, University of Vermont 8 Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, CA 9 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont
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Legal & Policy Strategies for Health Care & Food System Partners
Food insecurity is deeply intertwined with health and economic disparities, as an underlying factor in risk for COVID-19 and as an effect of the economic crisis the pandemic has triggered. Pre-existing health inequities and an increased risk of job loss or loss of income mean that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous...
United States of America
2021
博文
Building a better fruit fly trap
The Mediterranean fruit fly is a worthy enemy. This pest, also known as the medfly, is widespread over the tropics, attacking and spoiling oranges, mangoes and many other fruits. Each female can lay 200 eggs in her brief lifetime—allowing rapid population growth. The medfly damages so much high value fruit,...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - United States of America
2021 - Access Agriculture
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US: Why small-scale fisheries matter
A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...
United States of America
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Minnesota Farmers Turned the COVID-19 Crisis into an Opportunity to Strengthen Community
Iron Shoe Farm in Minnesota is finding new ways to connect farmers and consumers and keep their business afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. The farm’s founder, Carla Mertz, is hoping to do this by transforming food supply chains and building strong local communities.
United States of America
2021 - FoodTank
个案研究
Food Sovereignty in the USA: A Selection of Stories
Food sovereignty is a vision for democratic control over food and agricultural systems. The Narrative Collective of the United States Food Sovereignty Alliance compiled a series of stories that explore the concept of food sovereignty. These stories highlight food sovereignty in action, what the struggle looks like, and how it’s already taking shape.
With...
United States of America
2021 - US Food Sovereignty Alliance
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“Food Connects Us All” Grassroots voices from North America on the importance of building agroecology, fighting for policy, and joining global struggles
For decades, rural peoples movements of peasant farmers, indigenous people, pastoralists, and fisherfolk (to name a few) have organized at the global level for a new food system based around the concepts of the human right to food, food sovereignty, and agroecology. Increasingly, grassroots movements and frontline communities from North America...
United States of America
2021 - Actionaid USA
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Raising rabbits in the tropics
The importance of the domestic rabbit as a supplier of meat for human consumption is widely recognised throughout the world. The document 'Rabbit Technology for Warm Climates' is designed as a text for students, teachers, and practitioners on rabbit rearing.
United States of America
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Agenda de investigación para la prevención y contención de Fusarium en la región Andina
La marchitez por Fusarium causada por Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) Raza 4 Tropical es una amenaza para la producción de banano y plátano en América Latina y el Caribe, por esta razón es importante articular acciones entre los países que permitan contener, prevenir y controlar la dispersión del...
Colombia - Ecuador - United States of America
2020 - FONTAGRO
报告
Making the market work for nature
How biocredits can protect biodiversity and reduce poverty
Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a key role in helping to reverse this loss. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to promote biodiversity conservation.
Biodiversity credits or ‘biocredits’ are coherent units of measurement that track...
Costa Rica - Germany - Malaysia - Namibia - South Africa - United States of America
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
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