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Perspective : Agroecology as an alternative vision to climate smart agriculture

Sep 20, 2017

Taken together, agroecology and food sovereignty represent an alternative paradigm to Climate-smart Agriculture and conventional development. This article focuses on the more transformative elements of agroecology and food sovereignty to clearly identify overlaps and...

What Is Sustainable Agriculture?

Sep 19, 2017

There’s a transformation taking place on farms across the United States. For decades, we’ve produced the bulk of our food through industrial agriculture—a system dominated by large farms growing the same crops year after year, using enormous amounts of chemical...

Compost Use in Agriculture

Jun 9, 2017

Use of composted manures and plant materials in farming has a history almost as long as farming itself. California farmers enjoy access to high-quality compost and mulch products from a variety of feedstocks virtually everywhere in the state. California compost...

Desert farm grows 180,000 tomato plants using only sun and seawater

Oct 11, 2016

No soil, no pesticides, no fossil fuels, and no groundwater. And yet, a thriving farm in the heart of the arid Australian desert. How is this possible? An international team of scientists has spent the last six years fine-tuning a system that pipes seawater in from...

Why Chicago Is Becoming The Country’s Urban Farming Capitol

Sep 16, 2016

When you walk into Farmed Here’s 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Bedford Park, a sleepy industrial outpost about 15 miles southwest of Chicago, you might not immediately register that you're standing in the second coming of the locavore movement. But then you get...

This Danish Farmer Converted 2,000 Acres to Organic Farmland

Sep 14, 2016

Hovmand-Simonsen is committed to “helping consumers learn to taste again and to appreciate the difference in flavors” as well as providing healthy food farmed with love. The inspiration behind her philosophy in farming came at a very young age. “When I turned 14 years...

How Three U.S. Mini-Farms Are Sowing The Seeds Of Global Food Security

Aug 23, 2016

Her face shaded by a wide-brimmed straw hat, Olawumi Benedict is cheerfully tending to her “little babies” — kale seedlings growing in shallow wooden flats until they’re hardy enough for transplantation into soil beds. Three miles over the hills on another small farm,...

How To Start a Worm Farm in 4 Steps- Film Contestant

Dec 21, 2015

Take a look at Nick Hunter's video (submission from Australia) which was a Global Compost Project Contest Winner How To Start a Worm Farm in 4 Steps: Vermiculture Made Easy!

Only 60 years of farming left if soil degradation continues

Oct 8, 2015

Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said on Friday. About a third of the world's soil has already been degraded,...