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How Water Pans are transforming food production in Siaya

Kevine Omollo

April 13, 2023 |

Lake Region Bulletin |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Siaya

Communities in Siaya are excavating water pans to store runoff from the rainy season for agricultural and household use during droughts. The pans are dug in clay soil, and their size and depth are determined based on community needs.

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Can regenerative wool make fashion more sustainable?

Parisa Hashempour

April 13, 2023 |

BBC |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: New Zealand

The fashion brand Sheep Inc sources regenerative wool for its clothing products and claims to be carbon-negative. The regenerative farming practices used to make the wool are similar to what would happen naturally, the sheep graze across different grasslands, allowing unused ones to rewild using the manure as fertilizer. On top of that, the farm itself runs on renewable energy and supports native reforestation and the fashion brand uses solar power and a plastic-free supply chain.

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Weathering the Future

Kiran Kapany David Murdock

April 12, 2023 |

PBS |

Video |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States

Communities across the United States combat and adapt to extreme weather with local solutions. In California, drought-striken Orange County recycles wastewater into safe drinking water, and the Karuk Tribe prevents forest fires with controlled, cultural burns. A farmer in Iowa practices no-till farming to prevent soil erosion from heavy rain. Indigenous tribes on the Louisiana coast gather empty oyster shells and use them to create artificial breakwater reefs that slow down erosion from rising ocean waters.

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Amid changing climate, Bangladesh farming groups conserve indigenous rice seeds

Abu Siddique

April 03, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Resource Center for Indigenous Knowledge runs a rice breeding initiative to preserve and encourage the planting of indigenous seeds. The program trains farmers how to problem solve, cultivate, and save the different seed varieties.

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The promise of kelp-powered flight

Martha Henriques

March 23, 2023 |

BBC |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, California

Researchers are developing sustainable aviation fuel made out of seaweed. The seaweed is pulled into the ocean by drone submarines, lowered at night to obtain more nutrients from the water, raised again during the day for optimal sunlight, and eventually harvested and turned into fuel.

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Feed Seaweed to the Cows!

Anna Lionas

March 21, 2023 |

The Food Fix |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Australia

Australian company Future Feed sells the license to grow a type of red seaweed that reduces over 80% of the methane cows emit from burping. To produce that effect, a small amount of the seaweed is fed to the cows freeze-dried or as an oil.

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Microbes on the farm: a solution for climate change?

Emiko Terazono Alice Hancock

March 19, 2023 |

Financial Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia, New South Wales

Agricultural microbial technology can be used to create different soil applications like fertilizers and fungicides. These products can improve soil health and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by the industry.

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A solar solution to the West's changing climate?

Jane Palmer

March 17, 2023 |

Ensia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Longmont, Colorado

A farming practice that involves installing solar panels over crops, called agrivoltaics, allows farmers in drought-stricken regions to keep crops from sun overexposure, keep water in the soil for longer, and cool the panels with the moisture released from the plants all at once.

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How do wildlife habitat and agricultural lands coexist? The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust says quite well

Caitlin Tan

March 17, 2023 |

Wyoming Public Media |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Wyoming

The Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust uses conservation easements to conserve agricultural land in the state. These agreements happen when a landowner sells or donates the development rights to their land to the trust forever. They are allowed to keep farming the land, but it must remain undeveloped.

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How do you grow crops with no water? A rancher on the Gila River is trying an old approach

Jake Frederico

March 13, 2023 |

AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Gila Bend, Arizona

An Arizona farmer became the first organic regenerative certified farm in the southwest using practices that conserve water and improve soil health along the drought-stuck Gila River. His practices include growing arid-adapted crops, integrating livestock grazing, and planting cover crops.

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