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Even in uncertain times, local farmers are focused on making produce affordable

Hannah Loss

July 16, 2025 |

GBH |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Around Boston, local farms and community markets are using creative financing and marketing tactics to reach and incentivize lower-income communities to benefit from access to fresh, local Massachusefts foods.

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Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community

Adam Mahoney

July 01, 2025 |

High Country News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

In Phoenix's historically Black neighborhoods, community organizations have transformed vacant, heat-trapping lots into thriving urban farms. One initiative, Spaces of Opportunity, converted a 19-acre abandoned site into a community farm with 250 garden plots available. Spaces of Opportunity serves over 1,000 residents each month, and other community farming initiatives also help in providing food and jobs for participants, many of whom are formerly incarcerated or unhoused.

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Juventud del Caribe Sur de Costa Rica revela el pasado y protege el futuro de su comunidad, buceando

Mónica Quesada Cordero

June 21, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Costa Rica

El Centro Comunitario de Buceo Embajadoras y Embajadores del Mar (CCBEM) implementa un modelo de ciencia ciudadana que combina el conocimiento tradicional de jóvenes pescadores del Caribe Sur con formación científica en buceo y arqueología subacuática, utilizando su filosofía "ABCD" (Arqueología, Buceo con propósito, Conservación coralina y Desarrollo juvenil) para simultáneamente recuperar la historia afrocostarricense a través de expediciones arqueológicas submarinas y proteger los arrecifes de coral mediante programas comunitarios de monitoreo y conservación marina.

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Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

Stephanie Hanes

June 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Vermont

Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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How Shared Electric Cargo Bikes Are Changing Cities

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

June 05, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Shared electric cargo bike programs like CargoB and Re:Ciclos offer affordable, sustainable transportation alternatives that can significantly reduce urban car dependency; however, their long-term success hinges on overcoming infrastructure, cultural, and economic barriers.

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Ciencia comunitaria hecha por mujeres para anticipar sequías, cuidar cultivos y alimentar familias

Adriana González

June 05, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: El Salvador, Ahuachapán

En Ahuachapán, un grupo de mujeres están liderando un espacio de ciencia comunitaria para proteger el medioambiente e informar a su comunidad cuando sembrar o proteger cultivos. Colocan pluviómetros, anotan datos cada mañana y, a través de grupos de WhatsApp, van informando a la comunidad sobre la cantidad de lluvia que ha caído; tambien envían los datos cada mañana al Ministerio de Medio Ambiente para que el gobierno sepa lo que pasa en el campo.

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How worker-ownership helped California Solar create good jobs

Brooke Larsen

June 01, 2025 |

High Country News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Grass Valley, California

At worker-owned cooperatives such as Cal Solar, a California-based solar company, the worker-owners shape company policies and report a greater sense of accountability, comraderie, and more resilience in the face of industry challenges, compared to their non-cooperative model peers.

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Las voces que faltan

Diana Anzora, Lisbeth Ayala

May 21, 2025 |

Revista Elementos |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: El Salvador

Lideresas indígenas—desde sus comunidades: los pueblos Lenca, Kakawira y Nahua-Pipil—decidieron organizarse y crear el Observatorio Nacional Sijsihuat Mejmetzaly, donde están aprendiendo a levantar datos desde sus propias realidades. Juntos, por la primera vez, han comenzado a nombrar las múltiples violencias que atraviesan a las mujeres indígenas en El Salvador.

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This Queer Couple Supports LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Farmers' Mental Health

Nicole J. Caruth

May 14, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Texas

The South Side Queer Farmer Convergence provides culturally-affirming community gatherings that effectively reduce isolation, promote emotional healing, and foster mental wellbeing for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC farmers facing significant social stressors and discrimination.

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Networks of hope: women from Piura fight against gender violence

Scarlet Timana

May 08, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Peru, Piura

The community networks of women defenders in Piura are organized structures that, since 2018, have provided accompaniment, training, and inter-institutional coordination to victims of gender-based violence, combining psychological support, legal pathways, and economic empowerment. Since their founding, more women have reported violence, coordination between public institutions such as police and prosecutor's offices have improved, and survivors have transformed into leaders who break cycles of violence in their communities. Read this story in Spanish here: https://solu.news/mvw1

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