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  • Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine's Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

    March 09, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Seaweed is emerging as a solution to Maine's shifting climate and economy, providing alternative industries for ocean farmers and also supporting land farmers' climate initiatives. While still in piloting stages, studies have shown up to 50 percent reductions in methane on New England cow farms that incorporate seaweed into feed.

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  • The Revival of Germany's Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands

    February 10, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Various initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands, which is helping lower CO2 levels in agriculture and create markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges that peatlands support.

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  • Supporting Smallholder Women Farmers With Hand Tractors

    January 31, 2025 |

    Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Machhapuchhre

    A local government initiative has helped over 30 farmers to buy hand tractors in the last six years, with most of the beneficiaries being women. The hand tractors make farming more accessible and profitable for women.

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  • For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

    January 13, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Though not without controversy, electric fences are helping farmers protect their fields and keep out crop-raiding elephants.

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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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  • Transforming the Delta

    December 20, 2024 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    The Next California project, a collaboration between AgLaunch and WWF, is helping transform the Mississippi Delta into a sustainable and prosperous agricultural economy. Working with local farmers across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the organizations are helping agricultural operations incubate projects, diversify assets, and grow distribution networks.

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  • Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade

    December 05, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    In Rwanda, a fleet of simple, efficient trucks is helping farmers get their harvest to market before the goods spoil. For one farmer renting space in one of the trucks, the improved market access enabled them to go from selling 400 to 4,000 kilograms of produce a week.

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  • Resilience in the Sundarbans: How Shrimp Farming is Helping Communities Adapt to Climate Change

    December 02, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Sundarbans

    Communities in the Sundarbans have adopted shrimp farming as a sustainable livelihood strategy; the approach has proven successful, with environmental benefits and many farmers earning a good income.

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  • Think Utah farmers should do without irrigation? Here's what that looks like

    November 25, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Farmers in southeast Utah grow wheat and other select grains without irrigation, a technique called dryland farming. Relying only on rainwater eases water pressure amid droughts.

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

    November 18, 2024 |

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    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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