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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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  • Building Food Sovereignty in San Francisco and Detroit

    December 01, 2024 |

    Proximate |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The Black Community Food Sovereignty Network and the Native Foodways Program strengthen community connections to food, not only enhancing access, but also restoring culturally significant relationships with the Earth, supporting local economies, and healing historical traumas.

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  • Ancient seeds, new roots: Cherokee corn thrives at St. Edward's University's food forest

    October 08, 2024 |

    Hilltop Views |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    A food forest at St. Edward’s University has cultivated two heirloom varieties of Cherokee corn, helping Cherokee peoples connect to their ancestors and agriculural history.

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  • Slow Steps Through a Minefield

    August 16, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine

    MinesEye is prototyping a drone, which has conducted more than a hundred flights, to help Ukrainians identify mines and other potentially dangerous objects deposited in agriculture fields. The drone and its software combine data from aerial photography, magnetometers, and infrared cameras. As of reporting, the system found 18% of the 146 explosive devices planted using its cameras, and adding magnetic scanning data to the analysis, the hit rate rose to 90% of metal-containing projectiles.

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  • Journalist Changes Rural Women's Story With Mushroom Farming

    April 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kabuga

    The Simbula Ventures Initiative unites women from various communities and teaches them how to grow mushrooms. The Initiative teaches the women how to grow mushrooms with agricultural waste, yielding a harvest in about 18-21 days. The women can then use the mushrooms to cook for their families or sell them to make a profit, providing them with a sense of economic empowerment.

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  • Del concreto al bolsillo: Descubre cómo cosecharon hasta $30 semanales entre los edificios en Zacamil.

    May 13, 2023 |

    Proyecto Lava |

    Social Media |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: El Salvador

    Para luchar contra el alza de precios de los alimentos, Micelio Suburbano construye huertas para comunidades en espacios urbanos. Los voluntarios que trabajan en las huertas reciben comida para alimentar a sus casas, y así pueden ahorrar dinero.

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  • Indigenous-led farm, Tea Creek, leads the way in food sovereignty

    May 09, 2023 |

    Keremeos Review |

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    Response Location: Tsimshian Nation, Canada

    Tea Creek is a holistic approach to food sovereignty and economic development that provides community, trades training and land preservation, with an emphasis on reaching indigenous people. Tea Creek also provides a Food Sovereignty Training Program that includes courses in horticulture, carpentry, first aid, and more that graduated 108 people in 2021.

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  • Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

    December 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Rajshahi

    Farmers in Bangladesh are dealing with a lack of groundwater by growing vegetables instead of rice because they require less water and bring in more income.

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  • Can An Ancient Indian Mixed Farming System Help Our Farmers Sustain Better?

    December 07, 2022 |

    Earth Solutions Network |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Uttarakhand

    Residents of Uttarakhand, India, practice the Barahanaja farming system to deal with the lack of rain and irrigation systems. This practice involves mixed cropping of 12 or more crops throughout the year that are interdependent to support one another and have high nutritional value.

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  • Farmers in India are fighting climate change using nature

    November 16, 2022 |

    Euronews |

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    Response Location: India, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh

    The Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre nonprofit works with over 60,000 farmers across 300,000 acres of land, supporting individual farmers to restore unproductive land across the entire region by using regenerative agriculture practices. Techniques include using natural fertilizers and planting crops alongside trees and other plans to prevent desertification.

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