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  • How unconventional crops could save water — and reshape Utah farming

    David Condos

    November 18, 2024 |

    KUER Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Farmers and researchers in Utah are growing Kernza, a perennial grain that requires very little water and improves soil health, in hopes of helping the local agricultural industry adapt to record-breaking heat and droughts.

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  • Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

    Charles Mpaka

    October 07, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Malawi

    The Food and Agriculture Organization and the Slow Food Coffee Coalition are helping coffee farmers in Malawi adopt agroforestry practices by teaching them new techniques, helping them improve coffee quality, and showing them how to attract international markets. This way, the farmers earn more for their products and benefit the environment with their work.

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  • Sweet watermelon turns sour amid climate change

    Sadiqur Rahman

    September 14, 2024 |

    Bangladesh First |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Farmers in Bangladesh are switching from shrimp aquaculture to growing rice and watermelon during different seasons to increase their incomes and have more consistent harvests as they deal with the impacts of climate change.

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  • Adopting the Aquaculture of the Future in Thailand

    Tommy Walker

    April 22, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Thailand

    A form of polyculture called Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture is taking off in Thailand and China as a way to make fish farms more sustainable and increase profits. The practice involves farming multiple different organisms together, like fish and shrimp, so that they complement each other, reduce waste, and grow quicker.

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  • New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand 'climate-smart' acres

    Sarah Derouin

    March 25, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    A multi-partner effort in the United States, led by The Nature Conservancy, is helping farmers adopt agroforestry practices by providing funding and training. This style of farming encourages the growing of a variety of plants to enhance biodiversity and capture more carbon dioxide.

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  • Oman's mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

    Ruth Kamnitzer

    March 18, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Oman

    Ancient farming techniques are helping locals to preserve the environment and agroecology while still managing to sustainably grow food in the midst of climate change and other outside challenges. Moreover, the ancient farming practices are a major attraction for agritourism, helping bring money to local communities.

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  • This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

    Twilight Greenaway

    August 16, 2023 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Northfield, Minnesota

    Minnesota-based Tree-Range Farms is teaching farmers to practice regenerative poultry farming. The chickens are raised in two fenced-in plots of land alongside trees and perennial plants, switching locations when the plants in one plot are grazed down. The practice improves soil health and, therefore, water and carbon sequestration.

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  • Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

    Claudia Geib

    July 06, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    Nonprofits are spreading knowledge of breadfruit trees to communities facing food insecurity around the world because it is a reliable, resilient crop that produces abundant yields. Local farmers are taking an agroecology approach to planting the trees — which produce a nutritious, potato-like fruit — with other mixed crops so the plants can benefit from each other.

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  • "I would like people to see the prospects in the Ukrainian village": Dnipro Green Grove

    Natalia Kulidi

    June 26, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine, Dnipro

    The Green Grove farm in takes in animals saved from the front lines of the war in Ukraine. The owners provide any rehabilitation that the animals need and continue caring for them at Green Grove, return them to their owners, or transport them to other farms.

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  • ‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem': Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles

    Nina Lakhani

    May 29, 2023 |

    The Guardian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are participating in a study to find out if cover cropping is a viable method to improve yields or reduce costs in a region harried by unpredictable weather and water scarcity. In some cases, the cover crops they’ve planted between growing seasons improved soil health and prevented wind erosion.

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