Source: salon.com Published Date: August 12, 2017 (cjp via iStock) Matthew Wallenstein This article was originally published on The Conversation. Our soils are in trouble. Over the past century, we’ve abused them with plowing, tilling and too much fertilizer. What...
Source: rainforest-alliance.org Published: September 8, 2015 Since agriculture is the greatest driver of deforestation, farmers are critical allies in the fight to save standing forests. In Sri Lanka, which exports some of the world’s finest tea, only 28 percent of...
Source: motherjones.com Published: August 8, 2017 Pushart Tom Philpott If you pay state taxes in Maryland, you fund a program that gives farmers as much as $90 per acre—$22,500 annually for a typical corn operation—to plant a crop that’s not even intended for harvest....
Source: articles.mercola.com Published: September 10, 2016 NOTE: Article Requires a Mercola subscription to view Agriculture has a significant impact on life on Earth. It provides food, sure, but it’s also an integral part of the ecosystem as a whole. Done correctly,...
Source: greenbiz.com Published: March 26, 2016 Shutterstock By Eric Toensmeier The following originally appeared on Ensia, and is adapted from “The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate...
Source: alternet.org Published: August 17, 2015 Written by Leah Penniman Affectionately called “Professor” by his neighbors, Josefino Martinez is a well-respected indigenous farmer and community organizer from the remote town of Chicahuaxtla, in the Mexican state of...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: July 12, 2017 Cally McDougall, Studio Hill Center for Food Safety’s Soil Solutions By Diana Donlon A handful of states around the country have begun to recognize the importance of carbon farming as an expedient tool to...
Source: eurekalert.org Published: June 22, 2017 IMAGE: Untold Stories: Forty Years of Field Research on Root Diseases of Wheat now available from APS PRESS. Dr. R. James (Jim) Cook, a retired research plant pathologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural...
Source: dailyyonder.com Published: May 15, 2017 Healthy soil needs to be relatively undisturbed and covered by crops that are planted in rotation. Photo by Photo by Rob Mattson/Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation by Bryce Oates A global study of land and agricultural...
