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  • Greener Pastures for Cattle Ranching

    November 18, 2014 |

    Future Food |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Cali, Valle del Cauca

    In Colombia, traditional cattle pastures have caused soil degradation, deforestation, and desertification. To reconcile this, several thousand acres of land in Latin America have been transformed into a silvo-pastoral system of grazing and raising cattle with agro-forestry. The Colombia-based Center for Research in Sustainable Systems of Agriculture seeks to reduce pasture land by 26 million acres while increasing cattle numbers by 2019.

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  • 'Big Dry' Lessons: Southwest can learn from Australia's drought

    November 17, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Kilmore, Victoria

    In Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council was formed after a severe drought to bring together federal, state and regional governments and bridge parochial concerns. It was meant to manage the basin as a whole and end overuse and salinization of farm land, leveraging new technologies to adapt to new realities.

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  • Protecting the Rio Grande Basin's dwindling water

    November 16, 2014 |

    El Paso Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Elephant Butte, New Mexico

    The El Paso Times reports from the heart of the Rio Grande Basin - where drought has led to dramatic decreases in water supply, and serious changes in management of river resources are called for - on how the region plans to tackle the effects of climate change. Citizens work to increase water regulations and frugality in order to find a solution to the dwindling water problem.

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  • Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston's Poorest Neighborhoods

    November 07, 2014 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    By the 1980s, Roxbury and north Dorchester had been devastated by the disinvestment and white flight of the 1960s and 1970s. Racist banking and housing policies (“redlining”) had segregated people of color from opportunity, barring them from getting home loans except in certain neighborhoods. So the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) brought together residents to develop their own comprehensive plan to revitalize their community, building a community food system along the way.

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  • Getting water to crops when they're thirstiest pays off

    October 02, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Wadena, Minnesota

    A growing program in central Minnesota measures rates of "evapotranspiration," or loss of water in fields, using a complex formula involving solar radiation, wind speed, air temperature and other factors.

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  • Can We Fix the Climate by Being More Like Hawaii?

    September 29, 2014 |

    The Tyee |

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    Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

    Amidst a world struggling with smart ways to confront climate change, Hawaii's 2050 Plan for sustainability is working to be a model for the rest of the world. So far, it is on it's way to being a leader in solar energy, with Honolulu having the most "solar panels per capita than any other North American city," and the state is working to produce more food locally, as well.

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  • Innovation Within Reach

    August 21, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    What about the world’s poorest, for whom new, expensive gadgets are out of reach - what types of innovation would be most beneficial for them? Through “frugal innovation”, people are designing products specifically to meet the needs of the world’s poorest citizens.

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  • Linking up for a food-secure world

    July 17, 2014 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: India

    With youth no longer joining the agriculture workforce at the same rate or volume as they were historically, food systems are struggling to keep pace with need. Prioritizing the efficiency of supply chains and food security incentives, however, has shown positive measures towards sustainability.

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  • The Abstinence Method

    June 17, 2014 |

    Modern Farmer |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Beers

    Dutch farmers are saying no to antibiotics for livestock. The Netherlands is in the midst of a high-stakes, government-mandated experiment: Can large-scale meat production succeed without routine use of antibiotics?

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  • How Public Markets Support Small Businesses Owned by Women, Minorities and Immigrants

    June 16, 2014 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The creation, support and development of farmers' markets around the United States lends itself to the economic empowerment of women and minority growers. From Seattle to Philadelphia, these small public markets make breaking into the food business accessible to more people on the economic scale, a hard goal to accomplish for larger grocery store chains.

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