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  • Fertiliser: Women embrace sustainable alternative for food security, soil preservation

    December 05, 2024 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In 2020, Nigeria's Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE) and Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) began to train women farmers on the use of dung and plant wastes as organic fertiliser and pesticides; to date, CCEPE has trained 40 women farmers in Asa and 20 women farmers in Kaima, resulting in more bountiful harvests and economic savings.

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  • A Black-Led Agricultural Community Takes Shape in Maryland

    December 04, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Alternative farm finance organizations offer flexible, personalized financing plans for small, regenerative farms in the United States that might not otherwise have access to financing.

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

    December 02, 2024 |

    News Sense |

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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 |

    KUER Radio |

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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 |

    KUER Radio |

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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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  • Crops, cows, and solar panels? Why farmers are harvesting sunlight.

    November 06, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Spurred by federal and state incentives, farmers in Massachusetts are adopting agrivoltaics, the practice of installing a solar array on the same land they use for crops and livestock.

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  • Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos: Crisis y Oportunidad

    November 05, 2024 |

    Santa Teresa Hoy |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Varios actores y organizaciones han empezado proyectos que reciclan los Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos, ayundando desviar y reciclar un gran porcentaje del total de los residuos que se generan en los hogares de Costa Rica.

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  • Why Utah Is Bucking One of the West's Oldest Water Rules

    November 05, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Utah is ditching the “use it or lose it” water rights doctrine to encourage farmers to conserve water amid severe water shortages. Instead, it’s encouraging farmers to use less water while allowing them to keep their rights to it. The government is awarding funding for efficiency upgrades and creating a system for farmess to lease out the saved water.

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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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