Grassroots Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
Food sovereignty remains our answer to the food crisis. Now more than ever our communities and countries need to focus on agroecological food production. As this edition shows, we have a multitude of praxis and political proposals for solutions, but we need to build our power to fight the extractive and profit driven corporations from overtaking our food system.
Ground Covers and Weed Management for Regenerative Farming and Ranching
Acres USA has made André Leu’s book Growing Life: Regenerating Farming and Ranching the book the week, in his powerful and well written book, André Leu introduces us all to the concepts of regenerative organic agriculture, asks provocative questions, then shares answers only decades of experience could possibly hope to inspire, and then finally invites us on a journey to, as André says, “become your own researcher”.
Village Head Wins Regenerative Farming Award
VILLAGE head for Ndlovu village outside Victoria Falls, Mr Abel Ndlovu is leading his subjects by example after he won the farmer of the year in Kachechete ward.
This comes after the community embraced the concept of regeneration pioneered by Igugu Trust, to revitalise communities to enhance their livelihoods through sustainable use of soils, pastures, forests and small grains.
Restoring The Water Cycle: Understanding The Basics And Taking Action
I am writing this on World Water Day. The UN’s tag line for today is ‘Be the change. Every drop counts.’ This is very true. If we are going to return water cycles everywhere to what they used to be, then it will start with each one of us understanding the basics of the water cycle and acting to support a healthy water cycle.
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2023 | Agroecology Movement Gathers for Hope and Action
This year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) felt more necessary than ever. Gathering in person for the first time since January 2020, the great and the good of agroecology turned their attention to the pressing matters of the day: the intersectional crises of biodiversity, climate, energy and cost of living. The movement discussed available support for small-scale farmers, and solutions provided by transformed food and farming systems.
The Era of Certified Regenerative Agriculture Is Underway
It’s been more than 20 years since the USDA launched the National Organic Program that changed the American food system. Now, farmers and forward-thinking brands are embracing regenerative agriculture as the next step in healthy food and fighting the climate crisis.
Regenerative Research: Glyphosate
Opinions about glyphosate use in agriculture systems are polarized: either glyphosate is a valid farming management herbicide, or it is an unneeded toxin that degrades human and environmental health. To confuse things more, published research and recommendations from government agencies about the safety of glyphosate use in the food supply contradict.
We Want to be Able to Choose! Ensure GMO-Free Food Production
Resolution on the topic of new genetic engineering from the perspective of young people who would like to make – or just started making – a livelihood in the food sector, whether production, processing or marketing.
To Protect Corporate Profits, U.S. Plans to Bully Mexico Into Buying GMO Corn
Corporate money has always corrupted the political process in order to create laws and trade agreements that protect corporate profits at the expense of not just U.S. citizens, but citizens of the world. We can find, perhaps, no better case in point than genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Developed over the decades seed and chemical companies were touted as the solution to world hunger, the key to increased farm profitability, lower pesticide use and a better environment. It all sounded good, but none of it was true.
The Hope of Regeneration: Together
Western Zimbabwe is in a dry and hot spell at an absolutely wrong time of the year. As agro-pastoral farmers, we are facing a bit of panic for the lagging crops that still needed a bit of rain, the crops that were ripened had to take an early drying. However, the potential of regenerative agriculture, stories of farmers, and many different humans of earth in regeneration have stimulated most of us to keep going. We now more than ever, need the hope of working TOGETHER, humans and nature to bring Team humanity out of the vicious cycles degeneration.
Citizens of Humanity Group and Kiss the Ground partner to create “Kiss The Ground Cotton,” taking a fresh approach to promoting Regenerative Agriculture
Citizens of Humanity Group and Kiss the Ground partner to create “Kiss The Ground Cotton,” taking an innovative approach to promoting Regenerative Agriculture.
Open Letter from Diverse Women for Diversity to World Leaders
We, the women of the world, meeting together in Dehradun, India as the ¨Diverse of Women for Diversity¨, and representing 17 nationalities and multiple cultures, welcome and support the decision of the Mexican government through the presidential decree to phase out the use of GMOs and glyphosate. More information here.
How Regenerative Agriculture Can Enable Sustainable Nutrition
To achieve sustainable nutrition and global food security we must evolve our current agri-food system into one that is more resilient, productive and climate-positive
‘During Droughts, Pivot to Agroecology’: Q&A With Soil Expert at the World Agroforestry Centre
As the unabating drought in Kenya persists, pastoralists in the region are struggling as millions of their livestock perish and vast swaths of crops die. About 4.4 million people in the country are food insecure. Mongabay speaks with David Leilei, a Kenyan soil biologist at the World Agroforestry Centre, on the agroecological techniques and strategies pastoralists to promote productive farming.
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