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  • This Nigerian Lab is Farming Without Soil to Rethink Food Security

    October 14, 2025 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    Soilless Farm Lab, a Nigerian agricultural technology hub, has trained over 10,000 youth in hydroponic farming since 2019, leading to employment opportunities and demonstrating a climate-resilient approach that uses 90% less water while producing food year-round in a country facing severe food insecurity and land degradation.

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  • Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

    October 03, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California's farm-to-school grant program, launched in 2021, has successfully directed 100% of its funding to small and disadvantaged farmers. This has helped them expand their businesses through investments like refrigerated vans and partnerships with food hubs, enabling fresh local produce delivery to schools across the state.

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  • برنامج “المثمر”.. خارطة طريق لإدماج النساء القرويات في التنمية الزراعية

    October 02, 2025 |

    صوت المغرب (The Voice) |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    يبرز التقرير دور برنامج "المثمر" في توفير التدريب التقني والأدوات الرقمية للنساء القرويات العاملات في المجال الزراعي في المغرب، وهو ما يساهم في دعم الإنتاج والتسويق وتوسيع مشاركة النساء في التنمية الزراعية وتحسين ظروفهن المعيشية.

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  • Denver's Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment

    September 29, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver Urban Gardens transformed vacant urban lots into 26 food forests containing over 1,200 fruit trees and berry bushes, providing free fresh produce to communities while reducing local temperatures by 5-15 degrees and increasing tree canopy coverage in one of America's least forested cities.

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  • What It Takes To Keep Kentucky's Black-Led Farms Alive

    September 26, 2025 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Black Soil, a nonprofit organization founded in 2017, supports Kentucky's Black farmers through direct investment, grant assistance, and market connections while bridging information gaps that prevent farmers from accessing existing government programs.

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  • Are Agricultural Co-ops Seeing a Revival in Hawai‘i?

    September 10, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Agricultural cooperatives in Hawai'i pool small farmers' resources to collectively process, market, and sell their crops, with successful examples like the Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative enabling nearly 200 members to reach broader markets and the Hawaii Cattle Producers Cooperative shipping 8,000-9,000 cattle annually while returning surplus profits to rancher-members, though some co-ops have failed due to declining membership and market pressures.

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  • Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow 

    September 03, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Puerto Rico

    Communities in Puerto Rico developed locally-run resilience hubs that combine community kitchens, food stockpiling, and disaster preparedness infrastructure, successfully serving thousands of meals during events like Hurricane Fiona and providing year-round food security while reducing dependence on delayed government aid.

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  • City food forests offer a chance to experience nature — and eat it

    August 19, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    In some cities, empty urban lots transformed into multilayered "food forests" that mimic natural ecosystems are providing free, accessible fresh produce to city residents through strategically designed edible plantings that feature native and adapted fruit trees, nut trees, and berry bushes.

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  • This Farmer-Led Co-op is Growing a Sustainable ‘Ulu Industry for Hawai‘i's Small Farmers

    August 13, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    The Hawai'i 'Ulu Cooperative, a farmer-owned collective founded in 2016, has grown to nearly 200 members across four islands by providing guaranteed markets, stable pricing, and collective processing. Through this, farmers have revitalized traditional Hawaiian agriculture and created year-round supply chains.

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  • A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel

    July 28, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    The creation of forest gardens—the modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables—are helping supply communities in sub-Saharan Africa with food, medicine, and animal feed. The U.S.-based NGO TREES claims to have created 38,000 active forest gardens in five countries, each comprising about 4,000 trees. This has restored 99,743 acres of degraded land, having reached 56,273 farmers and their families across 174 community projects.

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