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L’idée de la sécurité sociale alimentaire (SSA) est d’améliorer l’accès à une alimentation de haute qualité à des coûts réduits tout en soutenant les producteurs agricoles. Des initiatives pilotes en France ont testé des systèmes des prix différenciés et des modèles de caisses alimentaire commune qui ont montré un succès précoce, mais les coûts de soutien de tels programmes restent un défi.

Wales’ One Planet Development Policy allows people to live a more sustainable lifestyle by using only the resources on the land where they reside. For one family, they get their electricity from their own solar array, heat from firewood, and food from their gardens and livestock. Each year, they must prove that they are using only their “global fair share” of resources. So far, 46 farms have signed on to the program and the lessons learned from the experiment are helping to inform the government’s actions on other policies like housing.

As the agriculture industry faces crop and profit loss due to catastrophic weather events, many farmers and ranchers are being catalysts for conversations with politicians, scientists, and environmental groups about how to combat the effects of climate change. Throughout the United States, key stakeholders in the food supply chain have formed working groups to discuss climate change and how their industry can work together to improve soil health and sequester carbon. While there are some who are not supportive of these efforts, there is a growing consensus around the importance of having these discussions.

After decades of failed legislation, over 17,000 acres of public land was finally restored to the Umpqua Tribe with the passage of the Western Oregon Tribal Fairness Act. The land was a constant source of tension between the tribe, the government, and environmental conservation groups, “under the pretext that Native peoples didn’t know how to manage them.” But in December 2018, with the passage of the Act and the return of 3% of the land that was originally seized, a sense of justice was felt.

After initially not involving the indigenous Q’eqchi community in designating land for the Río Sarstún Multiple Use Area – land that this community lives on – the government and the Q’eqchi since partnered together to advance conservation efforts and land management. Over a decade later, the two stakeholders work together on things like overfishing and ecotourism, part of a larger global trend of governments and local communities working collaboratively toward conservation.

Aux épiceries éphémères installés par l’association Vers un Réseau d’Achat en Commun (Vrac), les résidents des quartiers populaires peuvent accéder à des aliments biologiques de haute qualité à prix réduit. Il y a 124 de ces épiceries dans toute la France et plus de 10 000 foyers adhérents.

The Friends of Coyote Hills led a 30-year community campaign that successfully protected 24 acres of threatened habitat from development. Alongside voter mobilization, strategic fundraising, and federal wildlife protections, they secured $70 million toward the purchase of land.

New Mexico's new legislation fundamentally transforms its wildlife agency through three key reforms: expanding the mission beyond hunting/fishing to include all species conservation, securing new funding through increased license fees, and overhauling governance to require expertise-based appointments. While the state is still waiting for all the changes to take effect, early indicators show this new legislation is inspiring other states, providing a model to refer to for modernizing wildlife management.

California’s climate-smart agriculture programs—funded via the state's Cap-and-Trade revenues—provide grants enabling farmers to adopt sustainable practices like drip irrigation, soil regeneration, and manure management, significantly reducing water use, greenhouse gases, and economic vulnerability to climate change while boosting long-term farm resilience.

Community activism in the late 1800s led to the creation of a unique 6.1 million-acre forest preserve in New York called Adirondack Park. It’s explicitly protected by the state constitution and consists of half publicly-owned land and half privately-owned land.