Kelly Griffeth, a farmer in Mitchell and Jewell counties, is a believer in cover crops. “We’re using cover crops about everywhere we farm,” Griffeth said. “It’s making us money by improving our soil, and we have tons of wildlife, too.”
We can draw many of the solutions for taking care of our inner landscape and growing healthy people from seeing how sustainable agriculture takes care of the outer landscape to grow healthy food.
We face a critical moment. Real solutions to climate change must be agreed upon and urgently adopted. A coalition of over 350 organizations from around the world urges decision-makers to stand against green-washed false solutions rebranded as Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and to have the courage to recognise and promote the decisive role of agroecology in ensuring food and nutrition security, the full realization of the human right to adequate food and nutrition, and food sovereignty in the face of climate change, resource scarcity, and growing demand challenges.
“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And it’s happening to about two-thirds of the world’s grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Yet a surprising factor can protect grasslands and even reclaim degraded land that was once desert.
Dr. Mercola explains why it is integral to change our agricultural practices in such a way as to return and confine organic matter and carbon in the soil. Not only would it solve issues related to water scarcity, world hunger, soil erosion, desertification, and pollution, but a global shift to using agricultural practices which sequester carbon could in fact reverse climate change.
The Climate Trust, a mission-driven nonprofit that specializes in climate solutions, with a reduction of 1.9 million tons of greenhouse gases to its name, announces its second annual prediction list of 10 carbon market trends to watch in 2015.
Dr. Mercola interviews Courtney White about carbon sequestration and climate-friendly farming practices.
No-till, or “soil conservation” farming is a growing trend in America. It can regenerate soil, increase yields, and decrease use of chemicals.
There is a critical issue is missing from today’s conversation about food. The concept is simple, yet virtually unknown. The solution to our global food and environmental crisis is literally under our feet.
The techniques that were supposed to feed the world threaten us with starvation and short-term growth at the expense of public protection compromises long-term survival. Current farming practices must facilitate the sustainability of the world’s crops.