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  • This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

    Minnesota-based Tree-Range Farms is teaching farmers to practice regenerative poultry farming. The chickens are raised in two fenced-in plots of land alongside trees and perennial plants, switching locations when the plants in one plot are grazed down. The practice improves soil health and, therefore, water and carbon sequestration.

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  • Breadfruit: A starchy, delicious climate and biodiversity solution

    Nonprofits are spreading knowledge of breadfruit trees to communities facing food insecurity around the world because it is a reliable, resilient crop that produces abundant yields. Local farmers are taking an agroecology approach to planting the trees — which produce a nutritious, potato-like fruit — with other mixed crops so the plants can benefit from each other.

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  • ‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem': Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles

    Farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are participating in a study to find out if cover cropping is a viable method to improve yields or reduce costs in a region harried by unpredictable weather and water scarcity. In some cases, the cover crops they’ve planted between growing seasons improved soil health and prevented wind erosion.

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  • Glendale permaculture landscape designer grows produce in the desert

    Justin Haddad’s backyard in Phoenix, Arizona, is a food forest he’s cultivated over seven years. Using permaculture methods to imitate nature, he grows a variety of subtropical and desert plants that feed him and his family daily. And he’s expanded the project into a business to help others learn to do the same.

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  • How indigenous women farmers in Mexico are using agroforestry to save the world's favorite drink

    Coffee growers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are renovating their plantations into agroforestry systems to adapt to the effects of climate change. The new growing style integrates native trees and shrubs to diversify the fields. This makes the plants more resistant to unpredictable weather, diseases, and pests.

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  • Solution story on enabling food security in the barracks

    Families of Nigerian soldiers faced hunger, when the soldiers were deployed longer than expected and unable to send home money. So, they organized and worked together to farm and grow their own food.

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  • Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

    The Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge runs a rice breeding initiative to preserve and encourage the planting of indigenous seeds. The program trains farmers how to problem solve, cultivate, and save the different seed varieties.

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  • Low-carbon farming helps India's rural poor battle climate uncertainty

    The Indian government’s Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change’s new climate adaptation program is designed to enhance climate resilience and rural farmers are adapting new agricultural practices to better resist the effects of climate change. So far, nearly 1,500 farmers across 48 villages have begun implementing these new sustainable farming practices and have seen not only an environmental benefit but financial gain as well.

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  • The Edges Matter: Hedgerows Are Bringing Life Back to Farms

    Planting hedgerows as boundaries between, or around, crops can help farmers manage pests, boost pollination, and improve carbon sequestration in the soil around them.

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  • Could This Mobile, Solar-Powered Livestock Barn Reshape the Corn Belt?

    Farmers in Iowa created mobile barns and use a stock cropping method of raising livestock between rows of cash crops on a yearly rotation. This new equipment and growing method reduce water pollution and improve soil health because the animals leave behind just enough nutrients to fertilize the crops the following season.

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