Organic Farming Could Feed The World, If Only We Would Let It
When organic farming practices are compared to conventional practices using all four of those metrics, the FOE report argues, the organic practices hold an advantage considering their resilience to increasingly pressing agricultural challenges, including climate change and water scarcity.
There’s Nothing Average About This Year’s Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’
A more ecological approach to farming—mainly, finding ways to protect the soil all year, including perennial crops, agroforestry or cover crops—could be a highly effective strategy to reducing water pollution and ultimately the size of the dead zone.
Harvesting Liberty: Short film explores reintroduction of industrial hemp to US
The return of a historic crop, hemp, could engender not only a resurgence in local economies, but also in the cultivation of crops that are more sustainable for both the farmer and the land itself.
The developing world is awash in pesticides. Does it have to be?
Boosting yields by growing more food on the same area of land inevitably leads to more pesticide use. Of particular concern to many is pesticides’ toll on human health. However, research is showing that farmers can boost yields and eliminate pesticide use entirely.
A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil
Cuba, it turns out, is a rare oasis of organic and sustainable agriculture. For reasons of politics, geography and philosophy, the nation was forced to abandon much of its large-scale, chemical-based farming and replace it with a network of smaller farms and more natural methods.
The enormous threat to America’s last grasslands
North Dakota’s researchers are tallying the ecological cost of the state’s recent economic boom and warn that the ecosystem could be nearing a tipping point as corn and soybeans continue their march north into the last vast stretches of prairie pothole grassland in the eastern Dakotas — more than 90 percent of which is privately owned.
Report: Herbicide, chemical fertilizer use doubled on Vermont dairy farms in a decade
One of the founders of Regeneration Vermont, Will Allen, has graphed data on herbicide and nitrogen fertilizer use from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. Farmers used 1.54 pounds of herbicide per acre in 2002; that number increased to 3.01 pounds per acre in 2012.
Global Cooling by Grassland Soils of the Geological Past and Near Future
Humans are not the first creatures to alter Earth’s climate. Termites and dinosaurs have had an impact on climate, too. But modern agriculture is undoing millions of years of grass-grazer co-evolution. Luckily, regenerative agriculture or carbon farming can reverse this damage.
8 Common Plants to Grow for Their Medicinal Benefits (All Great for Indoor Container Gardens)
If the soil can be fixed by adding quality organic biomass, reinvigorating an entire ecosystem, then why can't we do the same thing for our bodies, ecosystems in their own right?
700-year-old West African soil technique could help mitigate climate change
"The discovery of this indigenous climate smart soil-management practice is extremely timely. This valuable strategy to improve soil fertility while also contributing to climate-change mitigation and adaptation in Africa could become an important component of the global climate-smart agricultural management strategy to achieve food security."
How Does Agriculture Change Our Climate?
While global agriculture faces a number of challenges, the most surprising challenge to food security may come from agriculture’s impact on our climate.
New Report: Farming for the Future
Rather than producing more food under unequal and ecologically destructive conditions, the solution to hunger hinges on creating a more sustainable, democratic and fair food system for all.
A decade after ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma,’ Michael Pollan sees signs of hope
Pollan outlines a series of changes that have taken place in our food system since his book The Omnivore's Dilemma was published in 2006.
Cover Crops Build Soil
Growing a full-season cover for grazing increases soil organic matter and provides habitat for pollinators.
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