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  • Planting the Future: How a Nigerian University is Tackling Food Insecurity with Agricultural Innovation

    January 06, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Bayero University Center for Dryland Agriculture’s Tissue Culture Lab empowers local farmers with advanced research and technology to adapt to climate change and increase food security and nutrition. So far, 22 communities have benefited from the Lab’s expertise, leading to increased food production and fewer health problems caused by inadequate diets.

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  • Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos: Crisis y Oportunidad

    November 05, 2024 |

    Santa Teresa Hoy |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Varios actores y organizaciones han empezado proyectos que reciclan los Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos, ayundando desviar y reciclar un gran porcentaje del total de los residuos que se generan en los hogares de Costa Rica.

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  • Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

    October 07, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    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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  • How the Zai farming technique is transforming soil fertility in North Cameroon

    September 11, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Cameroon, Garoua

    Farmers in Garoua, Cameroon, are repopularizing a traditional agricultural technique called Zai to restore the soil they’re growing on and combat human-caused desertification. To do so, they dig holes across their fields so compost, grain, and rainwater can sink into them and prevent erosion.

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  • Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

    July 31, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Thailand

    Government agencies, trade groups, and businesses are working together to provide agroforestry training and environmental education to rubber farmers in Thailand. Cultivating rubber alongside other useful trees and crops is better for the environment than monoculture farms and increases farmers’ profits.

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  • 'Precision ag' promised a farming revolution. It's coming, just slowly

    June 13, 2024 |

    St. Louis Public Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Illinois

    A St. Louis-based company, Impossible Sensing, is creating sensors that can be attached to the back of a planter to help farmers understand factors like nutrient level and soil health. It’s a form of precision agriculture, which essentially follows the notion that having more precise data leads to more efficient and sustainable farms.

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  • How 'Farmfluencers' Are Making Vietnam's Rice Fields More Sustainable

    May 30, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    The Viet Nam Farmers Union rolled out a train-the-trainer program focused on encouraging rice farmers in Vietnam to take up more sustainable practices. This style of training helps farmers overcome any hesitation towards trying new methods by allowing them to learn from their peers and see the success of demonstration plots.

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  • Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

    April 16, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Barbados

    Entrepreneurs in the Caribbean are collecting harmful sargassum seaweed that washes up on the beaches and turning it into agricultural products that reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers. Red Diamond Compost, for example, uses growth-stimulating hormones from the seaweed to create a soil additive that improves plants’ ability to absorb nutrients.

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  • In Rural Western Uganda, A Tree-Planting Initiative Shows Signs of Life

    April 15, 2024 |

    The Xylom |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine that uses its profits to support tree-planting initiatives, is working with the Jane Goodall Institute Austria to grow 200,000 trees in Uganda. The organizations work with communities to design the projects around their needs and then support locals through the process of growing trees.

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  • Biochar Is ‘Low-Hanging Fruit' for Sequestering Carbon and Combating Climate Change

    March 29, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States

    Biochar is an organic material that can be mixed with soil to improve soil health, increase crop production, and sequester carbon. To make it, wood or other biomass is heated at high temperatures in an oxygen-deprived environment, like a kiln.

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