Want to witness the magic of the mini-forest? When you practice The Miyawaki Method, a unique approach to reforestation, you’ll see an empty lot or backyard transform into a biodiverse forest before your very eyes.
The following is an excerpt from Mini-Forest Revolution by Hannah Lewis. It has been adapted for the web.
Los alimentos elaborados con cultivos fumigados con glifosato suelen contener residuos del herbicida, que las personas consumen a través de su dieta diaria, un factor citado por las autoridades mexicanas en su disputa con Estados Unidos. El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador promulgó el decreto para empezar a eliminar el glifosato en 2020.
Durante 2023, la destrucción del bosque en Bolivia alcanzó niveles sin precedentes, con la pérdida de 696.362 hectáreas, especialmente significativa en el caso del bosque primario, de mayor valor ecológico, con 490.544 hectáreas afectadas. Santa Cruz se mantiene como el epicentro de la deforestación en Bolivia, mientras que Beni, con su bosque amazónico, ha surgido como un nuevo frente agropecuario y de deforestación.
A coalition of food innovation organisations in Europe has recently unveiled the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio, a €30 million initiative aimed at advancing regenerative agriculture practices across the continent.
La senadora Geovanna Bañuelos de la Torre presentó una iniciativa con el objetivo de que la Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural formule, conduzca y evalúe una política para el fomento e inversión de la agricultura regenerativa.
Regenerative agricultural approaches can empower Kenyan farmers to position coffee in the context of global demand and regulations relating to sustainable production, fair trade, healthy and safe diets.
La sequía y la revuelta campesina, dos asuntos muy vinculados a la emergencia climática y a la tierra, llevan varias semanas en el centro del foco mediático. ¿Hay alguna forma de que el dañado sector primario sea precisamente quien impulse la mitigación del cambio climático? Sí, impulsando un cambio en el modelo de producción de los alimentos.
Civil society groups have criticized a new $61 billion initiative to industrialize African food systems, calling the plan a “significant threat to small-scale farmers.” The groups, under the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), say the initiative by the African Development Bank (AfDB) will marginalize smallholders through its one-size-fits-all approach, increase dependency on multinational corporations for seeds and agrochemicals, and lead to the loss of land and biodiversity.
As global environmental challenges intensify and the calls for sustainable agricultural solutions grow louder, the first EU Carbon Farming Summit prepares to welcome experts, innovators, and thought leaders from across Europe to discuss innovation and opportunities for carbon farming.
We all count on ecosystems — and the natural resources we extract from them — to provide humanity with what it needs to survive and thrive. From fertile soils to forests and raw materials underground, nature appears to be an endless fountain furnishing all that we eat, drink, wear, live in, buy and rely on for fuel.