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  • Glendale permaculture landscape designer grows produce in the desert

    May 17, 2023 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Justin Haddad’s backyard in Phoenix, Arizona, is a food forest he’s cultivated over seven years. Using permaculture methods to imitate nature, he grows a variety of subtropical and desert plants that feed him and his family daily. And he’s expanded the project into a business to help others learn to do the same.

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  • How indigenous women farmers in Mexico are using agroforestry to save the world's favorite drink

    May 15, 2023 |

    Unbias The News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, Guadalupe Buenavista, Oaxaca

    Coffee growers in Oaxaca, Mexico, are renovating their plantations into agroforestry systems to adapt to the effects of climate change. The new growing style integrates native trees and shrubs to diversify the fields. This makes the plants more resistant to unpredictable weather, diseases, and pests.

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  • Del concreto al bolsillo: Descubre cómo cosecharon hasta $30 semanales entre los edificios en Zacamil.

    May 13, 2023 |

    Proyecto Lava |

    Social Media |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: El Salvador

    Para luchar contra el alza de precios de los alimentos, Micelio Suburbano construye huertas para comunidades en espacios urbanos. Los voluntarios que trabajan en las huertas reciben comida para alimentar a sus casas, y así pueden ahorrar dinero.

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  • Start-ups see sustainable future in seaweed farming

    May 11, 2023 |

    Financial Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sweden

    Companies are beginning to grow offshore seaweed for human consumption as a protein option that’s better for the environment. Growing seaweed on ropes in the ocean is less land-intensive, sequesters carbon, and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticides.

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  • Zai Pits Providing Food Security Amidst Adverse Climate Change in Kibwezi

    May 11, 2023 |

    Rongo University |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kibwezi

    Farmers in Kenya are digging pits — called Zai Pits — re-filling them with soil mixed with manure and planting maize seeds in them. This practice allows the farmers to have successful harvests during droughts with minimal rainfall.

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  • Resource-rich countries find it pays to pay landholders to protect their land

    May 11, 2023 |

    Ensia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Guatemala

    Guatemala’s reforestation programs pay farmers to keep their lands forested instead of clearing them for farming. The annual $380 payment each participant receives for 5 to 10 years comes from the general taxes collected by the government.

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  • Indigenous-led farm, Tea Creek, leads the way in food sovereignty

    May 09, 2023 |

    Keremeos Review |

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    Response Location: Tsimshian Nation, Canada

    Tea Creek is a holistic approach to food sovereignty and economic development that provides community, trades training and land preservation, with an emphasis on reaching indigenous people. Tea Creek also provides a Food Sovereignty Training Program that includes courses in horticulture, carpentry, first aid, and more that graduated 108 people in 2021.

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  • Solution story on enabling food security in the barracks

    May 02, 2023 |

    Heritage 88.7FM |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Families of Nigerian soldiers faced hunger, when the soldiers were deployed longer than expected and unable to send home money. So, they organized and worked together to farm and grow their own food.

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  • How Floating Farms Are Helping Bangladesh Adapt to Climate Change

    April 27, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Barisal

    Farmers in Barisal, Bangladesh, are returning to the traditional practice of growing crops on rafts to adapt to frequent floods and rising sea levels. The floating gardens made from woven water hyacinth have a layer of manure on top.

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  • California's Methane Climate Solution Rewards Dairy Gas. Other States Take a Harder Line.

    April 26, 2023 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California pays farmers to turn cow manure into biogas in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Harvested in various ways, the gas collected from the waste is used to power farms.

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