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Report: Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more
Investigate Midwest: Information on factory farms is spotty at best. The government has been hogtied from doing more. There is no comprehensive list of all the concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in the Midwest. A lawsuit prevented the federal government from making one, and states take different approaches.
Iowa is […]
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Ky. Bill Would Allow Ban Of Large Solar Projects On Farmland
Ohio Valley Resource: Ky. Bill Would Allow Ban Of Large Solar Projects On Farmland.
A new bill in the Kentucky legislature could ban large-scale solar projects on farmland in the state, out of fears that the growing solar industry could be a detriment to the preservation of productive farmland. But a […]
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Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month
ReturnToNow.net: Forest Garden With 500 Edible Plants Requires Only a Few Hours of Work Per Month.
Historically, farms and forests have been at odds. Conventional wisdom says we have to cut down […]
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Climate change threatens Pa.’s farmers. How growers treat their soil could help them adapt — and benefit the rest of us, too
Rain can be friend or foe to a farmer. It all depends on how much is falling.
Record rainfall in 2018 caused problems for growers across Pennsylvania, and some […]
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Solar Panels and Farms
SolarGrazing.org provides a 2-page brochure on how solar panels and sheep can co-exist together.
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Indian Farmers beat water scarcity with innovation
DW: Indian farmers beat water scarcity with innovation. After losing crops to severe drought for years, farmers in Maharashtra are seeing high yields through imaginative cultivation methods. They told DW that taking control is better than protesting government policy.
Krishna Narode, 26, from Gangapur village in India’s western Maharashtra state, is visibly […]
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Report: In Florida and Arizona, Worsening Heat Puts More People at Risk – 2 articles
Public Integrity: IN FLORIDA, WORSENING HEAT PUTS MORE PEOPLE AT RISK. Farmworkers have long faced dangers from laboring outside in sweltering heat. As climate change raises temperatures, heat illness could come for far more people. For more than two decades now, Jeannie Economos has been advocating for farmworkers’ health. Pesticide exposure […]
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Report: UK’s beef herds could be key to sustainable farming
The Guardian: UK’s beef herds could be key to sustainable farming, says report. Cattle can fertilise land but consumption of other meat, milk and eggs must fall by 50%.
The UK’s beef herd could be at the heart of a sustainable farming system that tackles both the climate and […]
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Is Fonio the Ancient Grain of the Future?
Civil Eats discusses Is Fonio the Ancient Grain of the Future? Yolele hopes this nutritious, climate-crisis-ready crop w2ill compete with quinoa globally, while supporting smallholder farms in West Africa.
Multinational corporations (and foundations) generally take one approach to agricultural development in Africa. They encourage farmers to grow high-yield varieties of crops—mostly […]
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Report: 5 Global Cities Tackling Climate Change and Inequality
US News & World Report discusses 5 Global Cities Tackling Climate Change and Inequality. From sustainable urban farming to infrastructure combating floods, projects launched by these global cities are winning plaudits.
Although the global pandemic of 2020 made for some somber headlines, one nonprofit believes cities around the world still managed to […]
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