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  • How 'Farmfluencers' Are Making Vietnam's Rice Fields More Sustainable

    May 30, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    The Viet Nam Farmers Union rolled out a train-the-trainer program focused on encouraging rice farmers in Vietnam to take up more sustainable practices. This style of training helps farmers overcome any hesitation towards trying new methods by allowing them to learn from their peers and see the success of demonstration plots.

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  • Journalist Changes Rural Women's Story With Mushroom Farming

    April 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kabuga

    The Simbula Ventures Initiative unites women from various communities and teaches them how to grow mushrooms. The Initiative teaches the women how to grow mushrooms with agricultural waste, yielding a harvest in about 18-21 days. The women can then use the mushrooms to cook for their families or sell them to make a profit, providing them with a sense of economic empowerment.

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  • New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand 'climate-smart' acres

    March 25, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: United States

    A multi-partner effort in the United States, led by The Nature Conservancy, is helping farmers adopt agroforestry practices by providing funding and training. This style of farming encourages the growing of a variety of plants to enhance biodiversity and capture more carbon dioxide.

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  • The Farm at Penny Lane grows hope through therapy programs

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chatham, North Carolina

    The Farm at Penny Lane offers a safe space for people with mental illnesses to participate in activities such as gardening, art therapy and animal-assisted therapy to supplement traditional mental health treatment. Follow-up evaluations with participants indicate they feel more peaceful and inspired after participating on the farm and building meaningful relationships with others who share their experiences.

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  • The all-women crew fighting Indonesia's peatland fires

    February 16, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, West Kalimantan, Borneo

    The Power of Mama is an all-female firefighting unit that protects the health and livelihoods of the local community and environment by working with village authorities to educate local farmers on safe practices to prevent wildfires and preserve the ecosystem. The unit formed in 2022 with just 44 volunteers, but has since grown to 92 members aged 19 to 60 across six villages.

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  • Harvesting Amaranth, a Superfood of Indigenous Agriculture

    January 09, 2024 |

    The Story Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    The Qachuu Aloom Mother Earth Association is a farming collective bringing together the Mayan Achi people in Rabinal, Guatemala, and farmers in Ithaca, New York, to share and preserve ancestral knowledge of growing amaranth. The ancient grain is nutritious and resilient to climate change.

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  • Soil Builds Prosperity From the Ground Up

    December 07, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    After they were socially, economically, and politically forced from their agricultural land, the people who have used regenerative farming principles for millennia are reimplementing the practice in their communities. This allows them to improve soil health and reconnect with the land.

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  • The slow recovery of millennial-old salt marshes in Spain

    October 19, 2023 |

    Ereb |

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    Response Location: Spain, Bay of Cádiz

    In Spain's Bay of Cádiz, locals have spent years collaborating with universities, scientists, and government entities to restore their bay's traditional salt marshes. The results? A revived economic sector, a community adapted to rising sea levels, and protected migratory birds.

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  • For Indian Farmers, Artificial Glaciers Are a High-Altitude Antidote to Drought

    October 19, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Kulum

    In the Ladakh region of Northern India, vertical artificial glaciers called “ice stupas” melt at a slower pace than natural glaciers, helping farmers to store water for irrigation during the spring drought. Through contests with cash prizes, more than 500 people in 45 villages have been trained to build their own ice stupas.

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  • What can harnessing 'positive deviance' methods do for food security?

    August 29, 2023 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Niger

    Researchers are helping communities spread the agricultural practices of outlier, high-performing farms amid food security struggles in Niger. Their approach, known as positive deviance, involves identifying what the farmers are doing differently through surveys and encouraging them to teach community members to do the same.

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