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A tweak to help potatoes withstand late blight disease

Judd-Leonard Okafor

June 01, 2023 |

Daily Trust |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

Researchers bioengineered potatoes to resist late blight, a disease that ruins harvests, so farmers in Nigeria can have reliable yields and incomes. The new potatoes were cultivated by combining the potatoes farmers like to grow with wild potatoes that naturally resist mold.

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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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Glendale permaculture landscape designer grows produce in the desert

Paula Soria

May 17, 2023 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Justin Haddad’s backyard in Phoenix, Arizona, is a food forest he’s cultivated over seven years. Using permaculture methods to imitate nature, he grows a variety of subtropical and desert plants that feed him and his family daily. And he’s expanded the project into a business to help others learn to do the same.

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How indigenous women farmers in Mexico are using agroforestry to save the world's favorite drink

Magdalena Rojo

May 15, 2023 |

Unbias The News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Guadalupe Buenavista, Oaxaca

Coffee growers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are renovating their plantations into agroforestry systems to adapt to the effects of climate change. The new growing style integrates native trees and shrubs to diversify the fields. This makes the plants more resistant to unpredictable weather, diseases, and pests.

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The Indian Farmers Battling Climate Change With 10,000-year-old Emmer Wheat

Sanket Jain

April 21, 2023 |

Food Unfolded |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India

Farmers in India are turning back to growing traditional, ancient grains like emmer wheat for reliable harvests because it can withstand extreme climate-related weather conditions.

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‘It's about Healing the Earth:' How Nebraskans are Building Sustainable Farms Through Biodynamics

Ellie Kuckelman

April 17, 2023 |

The Reader |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Nebraska

Biodynamic farming is slowly spreading across the United States as a practice that improves the health of a farm’s ecosystem by creating a sustainable system that uses its waste to generate its energy. This way of farming also involves practices like crop rotation, cover cropping, and eliminating the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

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Weathering the Future

Kiran Kapany David Murdock

April 12, 2023 |

PBS |

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Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

Communities across the United States combat and adapt to extreme weather with local solutions. In California, drought-striken Orange County recycles wastewater into safe drinking water, and the Karuk Tribe prevents forest fires with controlled, cultural burns. A farmer in Iowa practices no-till farming to prevent soil erosion from heavy rain. Indigenous tribes on the Louisiana coast gather empty oyster shells and use them to create artificial breakwater reefs that slow down erosion from rising ocean waters.

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Microbes on the farm: a solution for climate change?

Emiko Terazono Alice Hancock

March 19, 2023 |

Financial Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia, New South Wales

Agricultural microbial technology can be used to create different soil applications like fertilizers and fungicides. These products can improve soil health and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by the industry.

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A solar solution to the West's changing climate?

Jane Palmer

March 17, 2023 |

Ensia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Longmont, Colorado

A farming practice that involves installing solar panels over crops, called agrivoltaics, allows farmers in drought-stricken regions to keep crops from sun overexposure, keep water in the soil for longer, and cool the panels with the moisture released from the plants all at once.

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How do you grow crops with no water? A rancher on the Gila River is trying an old approach

Jake Frederico

March 13, 2023 |

AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Gila Bend, Arizona

An Arizona farmer became the first organic regenerative certified farm in the southwest using practices that conserve water and improve soil health along the drought-stuck Gila River. His practices include growing arid-adapted crops, integrating livestock grazing, and planting cover crops.

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