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  • Working the land for our climate - Healthy soil, healthy world

    June 14, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Austria, Styria

    Humus farming is a technique that doesn’t harm the soil or organisms living in it but instead nourishes it, thus making it more sustainable for long-term use. Humus farming and other climate change mitigation tactics to revive soil and make it healthy and usable are spreading across Europe.

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  • Blackburn Middle Schoolers Grow, Sell Produce at Own Farmers Market

    May 20, 2022 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    In Blackburn Middle School's Learning Garden, students get hands-on experience with planting, cultivating, and selling their own crops. The school also hosts a student-led farmers market and collard greens cook-off where they can show off the fruits of their labor.

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  • Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil's cattle ranchers and forests

    May 12, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Brazil

    Providing cattle ranchers in Brazil with training and monthly technical assistance in sustainable pasture restoration reduces carbon dioxide emissions while increasing productivity and revenue for ranchers.

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  • What Will the Rise of Giant Indoor Farms Mean for Appalachian Kentucky?

    April 06, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    AppHarvest, a Kentucky-based indoor farming company, is providing jobs and agricultural training in an area that lacks employment opportunities.

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  • School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining'

    April 01, 2022 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A high school in Jackson, Mississippi, hosts the Academy of Natural Resource Utilization in which students grow produce in greenhouses, sell it at farmers markets, and make food products like salsa. The academy is an effort to educate youth on gardening and combat food insecurity in the community.

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  • Seedballs Aiding Kenya's Reforestation Efforts

    March 17, 2022 |

    Science Africa |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya

    In Kenya, like other countries in the world, deforestation is the major driver of tree cover loss. To solve this, a local startup called Seedball Kenya has developed the seedball technology whereby seeds of indigenous tree and grass species are coated with charcoal waste mixed with nutritious binders then thrown like balls into the planting grounds.

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  • Reinvent Utah farms to save our soil and Great Salt Lake?

    February 25, 2022 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Farmers in Utah practice no-till farming to improve soil health and water retention amid an ongoing drought.

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  • In Sierra Leone's swamps, female farmers make profits and peace

    February 12, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Matagelema

    With support and training from the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund's World Food Program, an association of roughly 150 women in Matagelema, Sierra Leone have begun irrigating and farming inland valley swamps there for the first time. They are among more than 4,000 farmers now cultivating in the country's swamps, which provide a higher crop yield than upland farming and are located farther from conflict zones with the region's rutile miners.

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  • Could Greater Investment in Greening Help Reduce Gun Violence?

    December 02, 2021 |

    Kouvenda Media |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The city lot where Sanctuary Farm now grows vegetables that it distributes free to the community once was strewn with trash and drug paraphernalia, hardly a hospitable place for the neighborhood kids who played in it. Now it's a lush garden and safe hangout for kids who help with the gardening, do art projects, or just play. It's similar to a broader Philadelphia program that "cleaned and greened" thousands of lots and made a measurable decline in violence. Sanctuary's impact on crime isn't known for sure, but some neighbors say the farm is a positive influence.

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  • Fresh and Local

    December 01, 2021 |

    Transitions Online |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Slovakia, Zlatna na Ostrove

    Slovak farmers meet increasingly sophisticated demand by growing tomatoes with a flavor that can’t be imported. Greenhouse-grown tomatoes serve as a good example of how modern-day Slovak farmers are using the latest technology to bring produce to the market with taste rivaling that of home-grown.

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