


Carbon Farming Gets A Nod At Paris Climate Conference
This week, world leaders are hashing out a binding agreement in Paris at the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. And for the first time, they've made the capture of carbon in soil a formal part of the global response to the climate crisis.

If We’re Going to Eat Cattle, Let Them Eat Grass
Faced with the harsh long-term realities of climate change and the immediacy of the California drought, the choice is clear: If we're going to eat cattle, let them eat grass.

Soil Carbon – Can it Save Agriculture’s Bacon?
"The best national health policy would be a national soils policy. But we don’t have one," says Dr. Christine Jones. "Rebuilding soil productivity via the restoration of natural carbon flow and the sequestration of stable soil carbon is the only means of saving agriculture’s bacon – and ensuring a future for human society as we know it."

Cover Crops: Long-term Benefit
Cover crops can help break up soil, improving water infiltration and add organic material, which boosts the soil’s ability to retain water. They can also inhibit weed growth, provide nutrients for commercial crops and sustain beneficial insects.

Land Restoration With Holistic Management
Can livestock really help restore degraded landscapes through Holistic Planned Grazing? Check out these case studies for photo evidence.

Convening of Peoples #COP21
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Carbon Finance Possibilities for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Projects in a Smallholder Context
This booklet is intended to guide extension service advisors and institutions who work with small-scale farmers and foresters with an interest in Carbon Finance and Carbon Projects. Its aim is to support setting-up carbon projects which involve small-scale farmers.

Global Food, Farming and Environmental Justice Groups to Put Monsanto on Trial for Crimes Against Human Health and the Environment in the International People’s Court in The Hague
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PARIS – The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will put Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, on trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.

An Awesome, Under-Recognized Opportunity to Act on Climate
By acknowledging nature's astounding capacity for renewal, we can help turn the tide of planetary destruction and increase our resilience by adding more carbon where it does a world of good, in the soil.

Pasture Cropping: A Regenerative Solution From Down Under
Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting a cereal crop into perennial pasture on his sheep farm during the dormant period using no-till drilling. As Seis tells the story, the idea for pasture cropping came to him and a friend from the bottom of a beer bottle. Ten of them, in fact.

Waste Not, Want Not, Eat Up?
Chef Dan Barber transforms Blue Hill Stone Barns into a restaurant called wastED. Inspired by the volume of food wasted by Americans - which totals nearly thirty-three million tons every year - each of the dishes on the menu is made from edible things that most people would consider trash, and much of which would have been otherwise thrown away. Dan Barber is reverse-engineering the evolution of American food.

The Surprising Leading Contributor to Pollution: Agriculture
Agriculture is the key contributor to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, particularly an agricultural system that supports GMOs and CAFOs. Agricultural practices that sustain and regenerate soil health is the way forward.

Carbon Markets and Agriculture: A U.S. and International Perspective
This webinar features Renata Brillinger, the Executive Director of the California Climate and Agriculture Network, and Ben Lilliston, Vice President of Programs at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Renata describes California cap-and-trade program and principles to improve the effectiveness and equity of carbon markets as they relate to agriculture. Ben discusses international carbon markets and concerns for agriculture.

Improving Soil Health May Require More Use of Cover Crops
Jay Fuhrer, dubbed the Waterway King of North Dakota, describes key principles for restoring soil health.
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