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  • 'This Business Just Wouldn't Exist' – Farmer Says Federal Program Was Critical to Success

    February 21, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Deeth, Nevada

    The Lotspeich Family Farm got technical assistance with the USDA grant application process from their local extension office staff, which helped the farm secure grants that funded the construction of their hoop houses. But future grants for farms are in limbo after President Donald Trump froze federal funding distributed through the USDA and laid off a significant number of federal workers.

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  • The Revival of Germany's Carbon-Sequestering Peatlands

    February 10, 2025 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Various initiatives are restoring farmlands to peatlands, which is helping lower CO2 levels in agriculture and create markets for the native grasses, reeds and sedges that peatlands support.

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  • Supporting Smallholder Women Farmers With Hand Tractors

    January 31, 2025 |

    Nepal Investigative Multimedia Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Machhapuchhre

    A local government initiative has helped over 30 farmers to buy hand tractors in the last six years, with most of the beneficiaries being women. The hand tractors make farming more accessible and profitable for women.

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  • Apprenticeships Bring a Fresh Generation to Small Dairy Farms

    January 28, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2015, the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship, with support by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has worked to help dairy farmers transfer skills and opportunities to a new generation. Thus far, slmost 70 apprentices have graduated from the program as independent journeyworkers, and 59 farmer-apprentice pairs are currently active across the country.

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  • For Ugandan farmers, good fences make good neighbors — of elephants

    January 13, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Though not without controversy, electric fences are helping farmers protect their fields and keep out crop-raiding elephants.

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  • Planting the Future: How a Nigerian University is Tackling Food Insecurity with Agricultural Innovation

    January 06, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Bayero University Center for Dryland Agriculture’s Tissue Culture Lab empowers local farmers with advanced research and technology to adapt to climate change and increase food security and nutrition. So far, 22 communities have benefited from the Lab’s expertise, leading to increased food production and fewer health problems caused by inadequate diets.

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  • Transforming the Delta

    December 20, 2024 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Next California project, a collaboration between AgLaunch and WWF, is helping transform the Mississippi Delta into a sustainable and prosperous agricultural economy. Working with local farmers across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the organizations are helping agricultural operations incubate projects, diversify assets, and grow distribution networks.

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  • Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

    December 17, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States

    Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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  • Fighting food insecurity with cooking classes

    December 06, 2024 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Winder, Georgia

    Wimberly’s Roots, a community garden and kitchen located in one of Georgia's food deserts, has increased access to healthy food through their monthly cooking lessons and partnership with the Boys and Girls Club.

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  • Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade

    December 05, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    In Rwanda, a fleet of simple, efficient trucks is helping farmers get their harvest to market before the goods spoil. For one farmer renting space in one of the trucks, the improved market access enabled them to go from selling 400 to 4,000 kilograms of produce a week.

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