Source: en.reset.org Published: March 1, 2017 CIFOR Agroforestry is the management and integration of trees, crops and/or livestock on the same plot of land and can be an integral component of productive agriculture. It may include existing native forests and forests...
Source: cimmyt.org Published: June 23, 2016 Drought is increasingly common in Malawi, leaving an estimated 3 million people in need of urgent humanitarian food assistance this year alone. However, more than 400 farmers and their families in Balaka, southern Malawi,...
Source: organicconsumers.org Published: March 2, 2016 By Courtney White Editor’s note: This article was written for Regeneration International, a project of the Organic Consumers Association, by Courtney White to explain how the latest soil science supports France’s 4...
Source: yaleclimateconnections.org Published: October 19, 2016 By Daisy Simmons An ear of corn, swaying gently before a stand of apple trees. A cow chewing slowly on clover. They’re probably not what you think of when you imagine solutions to climate change. But...
Source: permaculturenews.org Published: August 24, 2016 Darren North Whenever we hear the word biochar, most of us are thinking that this is not a climate-friendly method since it undergoes combustion process and can aggravate greenhouse effect. Though this is a...
Source: deeproots.co.nz Published: February 7, 2017 By Katerina Seligman Here’s how it works in a nutshell: Charcoal has been used as a soil amendment for thousands of years. The rich black soils of the Amazonians supported huge populations on what otherwise would...
Source: resilience.org Published: March 5, 2014 By Karen Rybold-Chin, originally published by on the earth productions Click here to watch “Mark Shepard, Restoration Agriculture”: https://youtu.be/aTa7TI3yrFE One of the world’s foremost authorities on restoration...
Source: phys.org Published: February 17, 2016 This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop. Credit: Atul Jain New research has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy...
Source: ecowatch.com Published: November 11, 2015 Cole Mellino “Sometimes, you think ‘oh everyone is getting into farming, it’s the cool thing to do now.’ But actually that’s not true at all. No one’s getting into farming,”...
