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  • To get young Filipinos into farming, initiatives reach them via TikTok, school

    October 27, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Kids Who Farm, an initiative co-founded by a 12-year-old in the Phillippines, is working to teach young people how to start micro-farms and grow the waning youth interest in agriculture.

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  • South Minneapolis grocery store offers a special on helping

    October 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Good Grocer, a grocery store in Minneapolis, is a nonprofit run by volunteers who receive an additional discount on groceries for their work. The store’s food outlet offers discounts of up to 70% and provides affordable, healthy foods to combat food insecurity.

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  • 'Tiny Farms' Bring Agriculture Jobs to the Work-Life Balance Generation

    October 20, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Tiny Farms is making agriculture more accessible to people in Germany by allowing those interested in part-time farming to rent land for micro-farms that supply food locally. The company also gives farmers access to training, cultivation programs, seeds, and takes care of transport and organic certification.

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  • A Jordanian Collective Works Toward Food Sovereignty Through Urban Farming

    October 11, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    The Al Barakeh Wheat Project is working to regain food sovereignty through urban wheat farming in Amman, Jordan, by partnering farmers with families to teach them how to grow and harvest wheat.

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  • Record Heat Waves And Droughts Can't Dry Up This Native Garden In Phoenix

    October 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    To tend their urban garden in extreme heat, the healthcare clinic Native Health of Phoenix partners with two nonprofits, Keep Phoenix Beautiful and the Salt River Project, to use flood irrigation techniques built on Huhugam agricultural practices and canals. Every other week during the hottest months 1,600 gallons of water flow through the garden and drain out.

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  • Human urine turned into ‘gold' to boost agricultural productivity in Rwanda

    October 05, 2022 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Fertilizer produced from human urine is a more affordable option for Rwandan farmers and is better for the soil than chemical-based fertilizers. Though it was initially produced to improve fertilizer affordability, it has also become a source of income for those who sell their urine to the producers.

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  • Restoring Hawaiian fishponds revitalizes food systems and cultures

    October 03, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Hawaiians are restoring fishponds to working order with tasks like fixing rock walls and removing pollution to reimplement land practices of the past into daily life. These ponds consist of a rock wall, a gate for midsized fish to enter, and things the fish feed on like algae and coral.

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  • Lebanese research preserves heat-adapted seeds to feed a warming world

    September 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Terbol

    The International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) preserves genetic diversity and breeds climate-resilient varieties of staple crops to improve livelihoods and strengthen food security — specifically in dry, climate-change-affected areas — by creating seed vaults. Through breeding programs over the past four decades, ICARDA has released more than 30 improved varieties of wheat, barley, chickpeas, lentils, and fava beans.

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  • In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty

    September 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Ponce

    The community in Ponce, Puerto Rico, reclaimed a neglected, abandoned area by turning it into a community garden and gathering spot they call El Huerto Urbano del Callejón Trujillo. The garden supplies food to the community and gives people a place to learn about agriculture.

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  • Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

    September 14, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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