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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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  • Can a City Feed Itself?

    Peter Yeung

    July 06, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In Paris, building-based agriculture, like rooftop gardens, allows for the production of nutritious food close to where they will be eaten. The practice helps eliminate carbon emissions, improve food security, and improve climate resilience.

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  • Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

    Laura Joffre

    July 04, 2023 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Peru

    Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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  • At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

    Michelle Theriault Boots

    June 30, 2023 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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  • One seed at a time: Lebanese project promotes agroecology for farmer autonomy

    Áine Donnellan

    June 29, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Saadnayel

    An organic seed farm provides free education to Lebanese farmers on transitioning away from chemical pesticides and fertilizers into agroecology. The farm, called Buzuruna Juzuruna, is creating a network across the country and runs an heirloom seed cooperative with over 300 varieties of seeds to share for free.

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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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  • Can the bioeconomy replace oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon?

    Gabriela Barzallo

    June 22, 2023 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    Communities in Ecuador are building a “bioeconomy” through ecotourism and sustainable agriculture instead of relying on oil extraction. This can help protect the country’s biodiversity and increase locals’ incomes.

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  • What Ohio's Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Thriving Union Co-op Network

    Cinnamon Janzer

    June 21, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Modeled after Spain’s Mondragon, an organization that helps develop cooperatively-owned businesses, Co-op Cincy is a nonprofit incubator helping businesses in Cincinnati, Ohio, do the same. The organization runs an educational course to teach teams everything they need to know, provides access to loans, and has ongoing technical assistance for its co-ops.

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  • On the cutting edge: How Richland County forged a new path in micro-farming

    Katie Ellington

    June 19, 2023 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The North End Community Improvement Collaborative's Local Foods Initiative utilized partnerships and grants to create an urban agricultural food system in an area of Mansfield, Ohio, that was classified as a food desert. They established space for community gardens and micro-farming, trained people how to farm, and formed a cooperative to sell produce in bulk.

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  • The Soil Farmers: Black Food Sovereignty and Climate Solutions

    Justin Cook

    June 16, 2023 |

    NC Newsline |

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    Response Location: United States, Pinetops, North Carolina

    Kendrick Ransome uses ancestral farming techniques like low-till farming and conservation tilling to improve soil health and sequester more carbon on his farm. He founded Freedom Org to teach youth these practices and help other Black farmers do the same after decades of racist lending policies have dwindled their numbers.

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