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  • Can Backyard Farming Fix Kampala's Food Prices?

    Rhonet Atwiine

    August 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Residents of Kampala, Uganda, are turning to various urban farming practices to grow their own food in light of rising food prices. Many of them grow enough excess that they're able to sell crops at local markets for additional income.

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  • 'Nuisance' Organic Waste Offers Farmers Better Fertilizer, And Feed Deal

    Rhonet Atwiine

    August 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The social enterprise Marula Proteen Limited is providing farmers in Uganda with a cheaper source of livestock feed, allowing them to stay in business. The enterprise uses soldier fly larvae produced with food waste to create animal feed and crop fertilizers.

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  • How are Afghans fighting climate change?

    Graihagh Jackson Barry Sadid

    August 12, 2024 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Afghanistan

    Amid droughts fueled by climate change, communities in Afghanistan are building irrigation pools, miniature dams, and systems of pipes to capture rain, flood, and spring water for agricultural use. Afghans who live abroad are sending them donations to help make it possible.

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  • How Asia's 5,000-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control

    Xiaoying You

    August 06, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

    Architects across Asia are taking inspiration from a traditional form of agriculture called rice terraces to create flood-resilient infrastructure in cities that lack places for excess water to go. In Bangkok, for example, a university’s roof mimics the step-like design, and the water it holds is used to grow rice.

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  • Sundarbans Adopts 'Rooftop Farming' to Thrive Amid Cyclone Challenges

    Joydeep Dasgupta

    August 05, 2024 |

    News Sense |

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    Response Location: India

    Farmers living near the coast in India are turning to rooftop farming as cyclones lead to flooding that makes agricultural fields unusable. The Association for Social and Humanitarian Action taught local women how to grow food in tubs or sacks with compost, and those farmers trained others.

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  • Miami-Dade está perdiendo las tierras de agricultura, y el agroturismo fuera del límite de desarrollo urbano aspira ponerle freno

    Clavel Rangel Jiménez

    August 05, 2024 |

    El Tiempo Latino |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Para muchos viveres y organizaciones agrícolas en Miami-Dade, el agroturismo ha sido una solución que les permite subsistir economicamente pese a las dificultades del mercado y el cambio climático. Por otro lado, organizaciones medioambientales temen que el agroturismo pone en riesgo la calidad de la proteción de la tierra.

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  • New funding could help Indigenous communities disproportionately impacted by climate change

    Rachael Schuit

    August 02, 2024 |

    VNN (Verified News Network) |

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    Response Location: Nooksack Indian Tribe, United States, Washington

    The Nooksack Tribe and the Lummi Nation are working with farmers who are building new floodgates to ensure the systems benefit farmland and local salmon. Farmers are adding gates that protect salmon during flooding and give them safe passageways.

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  • After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers

    Sarah Trent

    August 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Two-thirds of California’s farms are considered small, cultivating less than 50 acres, and they play a critical role in food security and climate resilience for the whole country. As climate change makes extreme weather more unpredictable, these farms have to rely on government disaster relief and crop insurance to get back on their feet.

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  • Agroforestry offers Thai rubber farmers a pathway to profit and sustainability

    Carolyn Cowan

    July 31, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Thailand

    Government agencies, trade groups, and businesses are working together to provide agroforestry training and environmental education to rubber farmers in Thailand. Cultivating rubber alongside other useful trees and crops is better for the environment than monoculture farms and increases farmers’ profits.

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  • The indigenous community protecting Himalayan sacred cattle in India

    Aatreyee Dhar

    July 27, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Arunachal Pradesh

    The Indigenous Adi tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, India, builds “living fences” by attaching barbed wire to the trunks of orchid trees to protect the mithun they are rearing, a sacred species of cattle listed as vulnerable by the International Union For Conservation of Nature. Many of the mithuns died from conflict with humans and animal attacks when they were left to free-range graze.

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