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  • Can This Breakfast Cereal Help Save The Planet?

    April 13, 2019 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Human beings' reliance on crops like wheat and rice has a detrimental environmental effect: because these annual crops need replanting every year, farmers are required to destroy any existing vegetation in order to get the seeds to germinate. But scientists with the Land Institute are promoting kernza, a perennial relative of wheat that provides seeds year after year.

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  • Despite Many Challenges, the U.S. Has More Young Farmers Than it Did Five Years Ago

    April 12, 2019 |

    Civil Eats |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boone County, Kentucky

    With the average age of the American farmer at 57.5 and the number of farmers over 65 outnumbering farmers under 35 by a factor of 6 to 1, many are worried about a severe shortage of ecologically-minded young farmers to take over from the older generation. To address this gap, states and institutions are launching initiatives like debt-free agricultural college, tax incentives, and loan programs.

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  • This Appalachian town was America's ‘fattest city.' Here's how it slimmed down.

    April 10, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Huntington, West Virginia

    After gaining attention in 2008 for having an obesity crisis, the city of Huntington, West Virginia started making slow and steady changes that have culminated into positive changes in the community's overall health. From a food market that gives back to the farmers and artisans that contribute to it to school cafeteria reform, the city has seen their obesity rate decrease and has shifted to a collective healthier mindset overall.

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  • Coffee helps protect Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas

    April 09, 2019 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

    For many poachers near Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, hunting is crucial to their livelihoods, even as regulations against the practice have increased. To help combat this, social enterprises like Gorilla Conservation Coffee are working to make coffee farming a sustainable and financially stable alternative. However, the model still needs some tweaks to ensure that farmers are adequately supported and the business can meet demand.

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  • How a small community in the northeastern corner of India became the country's first green village

    March 29, 2019 |

    Ensia |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Khonoma, Nagaland

    The village of Khonoma, in India's Nagaland state, focuses its effort on wildlife conservation through community-organized hunting reduction efforts and sustainable agriculture practices. These efforts led to the creation of the Khonoma sanctuary, which provides a safe-haven for the area's endangered species as well as serves as space for traditional sustainable farming practices -- like planting vegetables at the base of alder trees, which produce rich soil.

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  • Waste to Wealth: How Kenyan farmers are bringing life back to degraded Lake Victoria swamps

    March 22, 2019 |

    InfoNILE |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Kisumu County

    Families living in the wetlands of Lake Victoria in Kisumu, Kenya are working together with a nonprofit called Ecofinder Kenya to protect and conserve the wetlands they live on. The crux of the incentive centers around the Eocfinder toilet, which converts human and animal waste to biogas, but they also work with solar lamps, water pumps, and a "farmer-to-farmer" program in which farmers share environmentally-friendly expertise. The program has been going on for 3 years now, and the wetlands have since seen a return of wildlife and growth, particularly with fish and birds.

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  • Restoring Indonesia's peatlands to their natural soggy glory

    March 20, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Borneo

    The Indonesian government is working with family farmers in Borneo to spread the cultivation of sago crops, which requires the restoration of the country's historic, boggy swamps. This type of agriculture, called paludiculture, makes the lands less prone to devastating wildfires, protects residents' health, reduces CO2 emissions, and offers a long-term farming solution.

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  • The gardens of Quito: Urban farming in one of the world's highest cities

    March 19, 2019 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    AGRUPAR, a program funded by the Quito local government, supports 4000 urban farming plots across the city. One of its goals is to make healthy, organically-grown produce more accessible to marginalized groups, including Venezuelan refugees and women. For 17 years, the group has provided education, support, and resources to make urban farming a reality.

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  • Paradise from a desert, the proven benefits of regenerative agriculture

    March 09, 2019 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: Australia, Boorowa, New South Wales

    Multiple farmers in New South Wales have overcome drought and transformed their farming practices through regenerative agriculture. They decreased pesticide use, increased the planting of native vegetation, and increased profit over time. The profit-generating effects of regenerative agriculture are supported by a 10-year study of 16 Australian farms.

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  • These shipping container farms will soon be in grocery store lots across the U.S.

    March 06, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A direct line from local producer to consumer reduces carbon emissions and strengthens community food systems. A partnership between farming tech company Square Roots and Gordon Food Services aims to create local food supply chains by placing cargo-container hydroponic farms directly at store sites and distribution centers. The plan is inspired by the success of Square Roots’ container farms in Brooklyn, NY.

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