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After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers

Sarah Trent

August 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, California

Two-thirds of California’s farms are considered small, cultivating less than 50 acres, and they play a critical role in food security and climate resilience for the whole country. As climate change makes extreme weather more unpredictable, these farms have to rely on government disaster relief and crop insurance to get back on their feet.

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Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

Carolyn Cowan

July 31, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Thailand

Government agencies, trade groups, and businesses are working together to provide agroforestry training and environmental education to rubber farmers in Thailand. Cultivating rubber alongside other useful trees and crops is better for the environment than monoculture farms and increases farmers’ profits.

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The indigenous community protecting Himalayan sacred cattle in India

Aatreyee Dhar

July 27, 2024 |

BBC |

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Response Location: India, Arunachal Pradesh

The Indigenous Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India, builds “living fences” by attaching barbed wire to the trunks of orchid trees to protect the mithun they are rearing, a sacred species of cattle listed as vulnerable by the International Union For Conservation of Nature. Many of the mithuns died from conflict with humans and animal attacks when they were left to free-range graze.

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In drought-prone Oaxaca, indigenous women are reviving ancient techniques to preserve water

Stephania Corpi Arnaud

July 12, 2024 |

BBC |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Oaxaca

The nonprofit Group to Promote Education and Sustainable Development teaches women in drought-ridden Indigenous communities across Mexico to use ancestral methods of irrigation and grow drought-resilient medicinal plants. The four-year training program also aims to address gender disparity through empowerment. Participants are encouraged to set up savings funds to increase their financial independence and attend group therapy sessions, among other activities.

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Farmworkers in the US cultivate their own heat safety standards

Carey L. Biron

July 09, 2024 |

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Response Location: United States

The nonprofit Coalition of Immokalee Workers started the Fair Food Program to appeal directly to consumers and large brands about worker safety while policies and regulations are held up in government processes. The initiative strikes deals with large companies that pledge to protect farm workers in a variety of ways, particularly stringent heat protections as heat records are repeatedly increased.

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Could maggots fed on Kenya's food waste replace wild-caught fish feed?

Jackson Ambole Okata

July 04, 2024 |

Dialogue Earth |

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Response Location: Kenya, Mombasa

Kenya-based Project Mila collects food waste from households and businesses in Mombasa and feeds it to black soldier fly larvae. Then, the larvae are harvested for livestock feed and their excrement is used to create a sustainable fertilizer.

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'Precision ag' promised a farming revolution. It's coming, just slowly

Eric Schmid

June 13, 2024 |

St. Louis Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Illinois

A St. Louis-based company, Impossible Sensing, is creating sensors that can be attached to the back of a planter to help farmers understand factors like nutrient level and soil health. It’s a form of precision agriculture, which essentially follows the notion that having more precise data leads to more efficient and sustainable farms.

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Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds

Alex Hager Heather Sackett

May 30, 2024 |

KUNC |

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3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States

A federally-funded water conservation program, the System Conservation Pilot Program, is paying farmers in the Upper Colorado River Basin to not use the river’s water during the irrigation season. Leaving their fields dry for the program can earn them more money than they would get from growing crops.

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How 'Farmfluencers' Are Making Vietnam's Rice Fields More Sustainable

MaryLou Costa

May 30, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Vietnam

The Viet Nam Farmers Union rolled out a train-the-trainer program focused on encouraging rice farmers in Vietnam to take up more sustainable practices. This style of training helps farmers overcome any hesitation towards trying new methods by allowing them to learn from their peers and see the success of demonstration plots.

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Just coffee in an unjust world

Amy Frykholm

May 29, 2024 |

The Christian Century |

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Response Location: Mexico, Agua Prieta, Sonora

Café Justo offers an alternative model to traditional fair-trade operations, keeping the entire means of coffee production in the farmers’ hands. They connect the farmer directly to the consumer, eliminating the need for people in the middle who would often gather up the profits. In Salvador Urbina, the Café Justo cooperative has about 80 farming families and sends out more than 1,000 pounds of coffee a month.

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