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Coffee agroforestry holds promise for smallholder growers in Malawi

Charles Mpaka

October 07, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Malawi

The Food and Agriculture Organization and the Slow Food Coffee Coalition are helping coffee farmers in Malawi adopt agroforestry practices by teaching them new techniques, helping them improve coffee quality, and showing them how to attract international markets. This way, the farmers earn more for their products and benefit the environment with their work.

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Sweet watermelon turns sour amid climate change

Sadiqur Rahman

September 14, 2024 |

Bangladesh First |

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Response Location: Bangladesh

Farmers in Bangladesh are switching from shrimp aquaculture to growing rice and watermelon during different seasons to increase their incomes and have more consistent harvests as they deal with the impacts of climate change.

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Adopting the Aquaculture of the Future in Thailand

Tommy Walker

April 22, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Thailand

A form of polyculture called Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture is taking off in Thailand and China as a way to make fish farms more sustainable and increase profits. The practice involves farming multiple different organisms together, like fish and shrimp, so that they complement each other, reduce waste, and grow quicker.

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

Sarah Derouin

March 25, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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800-1500 Words

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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Oman's mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

Ruth Kamnitzer

March 18, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Oman

Ancient farming techniques are helping locals to preserve the environment and agroecology while still managing to sustainably grow food in the midst of climate change and other outside challenges. Moreover, the ancient farming practices are a major attraction for agritourism, helping bring money to local communities.

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This Network of Regenerative Farmers Is Rethinking Chicken

Twilight Greenaway

August 16, 2023 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Northfield, Minnesota

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

Claudia Geib

July 06, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Puerto Rico

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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"I would like people to see the prospects in the Ukrainian village": Dnipro Green Grove

Natalia Kulidi

June 26, 2023 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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Response Location: Ukraine, Dnipro

The Green Grove farm in takes in animals saved from the front lines of the war in Ukraine. The owners provide any rehabilitation that the animals need and continue caring for them at Green Grove, return them to their owners, or transport them to other farms.

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

Nina Lakhani

May 29, 2023 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, Texas

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

Paula Soria

May 17, 2023 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

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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