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  • Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine's Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

    March 09, 2025 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Seaweed is emerging as a solution to Maine's shifting climate and economy, providing alternative industries for ocean farmers and also supporting land farmers' climate initiatives. While still in piloting stages, studies have shown up to 50 percent reductions in methane on New England cow farms that incorporate seaweed into feed.

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  • Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier

    March 06, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Peru, Santa Fe

    In Santa Fe, Peru, an ancestral system of water storage is helping communities cope with water scarcity: qochas are artificial lagoons built to store rainwater during the wet season, which is later used during droughts. The use of qochas has allowed Santa Fe to have 41 reservoirs that store 2.9 million cubic meters (102.4 million cubic feet) of water, three times more than before.

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  • The Revival of Germany's Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands

    February 10, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Various initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands, which is helping lower CO2 levels in agriculture and create markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges that peatlands support.

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  • Supporting Smallholder Women Farmers With Hand Tractors

    January 31, 2025 |

    Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Machhapuchhre

    A local government initiative has helped over 30 farmers to buy hand tractors in the last six years, with most of the beneficiaries being women. The hand tractors make farming more accessible and profitable for women.

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  • Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

    January 28, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, with support by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers transfer skills and opportunities to a new generation. Thus far, slmost 70 apprentices have graduated from the program as independent journeyworkers, and 59 farmer-apprentice pairs are currently active across the country.

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  • For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

    January 13, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Though not without controversy, electric fences are helping farmers protect their fields and keep out crop-raiding elephants.

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  • Planting the Future: How a Nigerian University is Tackling Food Insecurity with Agricultural Innovation

    January 06, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Bayero University Center for Dryland Agriculture’s Tissue Culture Lab empowers local farmers with advanced research and technology to adapt to climate change and increase food security and nutrition. So far, 22 communities have benefited from the Lab’s expertise, leading to increased food production and fewer health problems caused by inadequate diets.

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  • Transforming the Delta

    December 20, 2024 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Next California project, a collaboration between AgLaunch and WWF, is helping transform the Mississippi Delta into a sustainable and prosperous agricultural economy. Working with local farmers across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the organizations are helping agricultural operations incubate projects, diversify assets, and grow distribution networks.

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  • Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

    December 17, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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  • Fighting food insecurity with cooking classes

    December 06, 2024 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Winder, Georgia

    Wimberly’s Roots, a community garden and kitchen located in one of Georgia's food deserts, has increased access to healthy food through their monthly cooking lessons and partnership with the Boys and Girls Club.

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