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  • The World's Soils Are Becoming Dangerously Degraded, but Rare Microbes Offer Hope

    Sandy Ong

    October 19, 2023 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    The startup Puna Bio collects microbes that live on the high-altitude La Puna plateau and turns them into a product that farmers can apply to soybeans to increase yields and improve soil health. Since they adapted to survive in such a harsh climate, the microbes can survive depleted soil and extreme weather to pass along key nutrients and antioxidants to crops.

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  • The slow recovery of millennial-old salt marshes in Spain

    Helena Rodríguez

    October 19, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Spain, Bay of Cádiz

    In Spain's Bay of Cádiz, locals have spent years collaborating with universities, scientists, and government entities to restore their bay's traditional salt marshes. The results? A revived economic sector, a community adapted to rising sea levels, and protected migratory birds.

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  • Mar Menor: cleaning Europe's largest saltwater lagoon

    María Elorza Saralegui

    October 11, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Local authorities in Spain are introducing restoration measures to clean up the Mar Menor lagoon, which is suffering from years of nitrate and phosphate contamination. Their methods include mandating hedges are planted as barriers on farmland, collecting rain on farms so it doesn’t flow into the water, and limiting fertilizer use.

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  • The ancient Sri Lankan 'tank cascades' tackling drought

    Zinara Rathnayake

    September 26, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Maeliya

    A hydraulic network of man-made water tanks built 2,000 years ago, called an ellangawa, collects rainwater that locals in Maeliya, Sri Lanka, can release during the dry season to support the rice crop and recharge the groundwater.

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  • The Initiative Enabling Nigerian Farmers To Grow And Earn More

    Nathaniel Bivan

    September 15, 2023 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kubau, Kaduna

    Babban Gona is an agriculture company that helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria produce bigger yields and increase their incomes. The company offers training, fertilizer, herbicides, and seeds in exchange for some of the farmer’s harvest. When the produce sells, the farmers get some of the profit and a bonus if it sells for more than expected.

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  • Why Iowa farmers are turning to irrigation during drought. And why some are not.

    Brittney J. Miller

    September 15, 2023 |

    The Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Farmers in Iowa are slowly turning to irrigation systems instead of relying solely on rain to combat more frequent droughts.

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  • Rohingya Refugees Capture the Reality of Their Lives One Photo at a Time

    Geetanjali Krishna

    September 05, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Rohingyatographer, a photographer cooperative in Bangladesh, is giving Rohingya Muslim refugees the opportunity to tell their stories through their own eyes by publishing photos in a magazine and sending them to humanitarian agencies. The photos have helped bring in aid and empower the refugees.

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  • Landless Workers Fight for Fair Food

    Nicole Froio

    August 31, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    The Landless Workers Movement in Brazil is fighting for land access for rural workers and is breaking up unequal land monopolies by squatting on privately-owned vacant land. This practice attracts the attention of the federal government, which assesses whether it can buy the land and provide it to the movement to live and farm on.

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  • What can harnessing 'positive deviance' methods do for food security?

    Katrina Lane

    August 29, 2023 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Niger

    Researchers are helping communities spread the agricultural practices of outlier, high-performing farms amid food security struggles in Niger. Their approach, known as positive deviance, involves identifying what the farmers are doing differently through surveys and encouraging them to teach community members to do the same.

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  • Automation is Transforming the World's Leading Vertical Farm Companies

    Roe Medovoi-Klotz

    August 28, 2023 |

    The Sweaty Penguin |

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    Response Location: United States, Compton, California

    Automated indoor farming harnesses technology like artificial intelligence, robotics, and climate-controlled systems to limit the negative environmental impacts of growing food while maximizing nutrients and yields.

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