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  • A Colorado Groundwater Experiment Tackles Urgent Conservation Needs

    November 04, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Farmers in arid, drought-prone regions are creating groundwater conservation easements with nonprofits to reduce their water use in a financially feasible way. For these agreements, farmers reduce the acres they grow crops on in perpetuity in exchange for payment and tax benefits.

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  • Changing the DNA of Living Things to Fight Climate Change

    October 24, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Pivot Bio sells corn seeds sprayed with genetically-modified bacteria meant to reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and the carbon dioxide emissions that come with them. The bacteria create extra nutrients for the plants in the soil once the seeds are planted.

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  • Campus food forest fosters community, offers number of opportunities through regenerative agriculture

    October 24, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    A food forest uses a stack system in which all plants serve more than one purpose. At St. Edwards, the food forest is still young, but provides organic and locally produced food available for the entire community.

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  • Can the tire industry be sustainable? Guayule farmers say yes.

    October 22, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Tire manufacturers, farmers, university researchers, and government agencies in the United States are investing in growing and processing guayule. The drought-resistant, hardy shrub can be used to make rubber products, reducing the country's reliance on synthetic rubber and natural rubber, both of which come with significant environmental impacts.

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  • How female farmers are adapting to climate crisis in northeastern Nigeria

    October 22, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Yobe

    The Okpara-Osim Foundation is teaching women in Yobe State, Nigeria, climate-resilient agricultural practices to bridge the food security gap. All participants in its two-day sustainable agriculture training are taught about climate change and useful methods like how to cultivate crops with minimal water. Then, they receive seeds to plant at home.

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  • How One Indian State Went 100% Organic

    October 15, 2024 |

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    Response Location: India, Sikkim

    In 2016, the agricultural industry in Sikkim, India, was declared 100% organic. The process was intentionally slow, taking over a decade as programs like chemical fertilizer bans, organic certification training, and model villages demonstrating organic practices were implemented to ease the transition.

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  • Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats

    October 11, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A network of conservation organizations prompts the creation of tens of thousands of acres of “pop-up” wetland habitat for migrating birds each year with a program called BirdReturns. It pays rice farmers in California’s Central Valley to flood their fields earlier in the fall and keep them flooded longer in the spring so the birds have a place to rest and feed.

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  • Radical Terraces Are Transforming the Hills of Rwanda

    October 10, 2024 |

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    Farmers in Rwanda are adopting a terracing technique that’s helping to improve soil health and reduce erosion on the steep slopes they farm on. Called radical terraces, they slope back towards the hill to significantly slow water runoff and trap soil during intense rainfall.

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  • Solar milking tech boosts dairy farms in Malawi

    October 10, 2024 |

    SciDev.Net |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    Following a successful pilot, Malawi’s National Commission for Science and Technology is now expanding use of solar-powered milking devices and water pumping systems, which have improved milk quality and significantly reduced time spent fetching water.

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

    October 08, 2024 |

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    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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