Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today awarded an additional $9.7 million for 13 grant projects through the Organic Market Development Grant (OMDG) program, bringing the total amount awarded through the program to $85 million.

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The post-Malabo process to determine the next decade of agricultural policy has so far been characterised by outside influence and exclusivity.

This amazing book, a Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Health. Written by our directors Ronnie Cummins and André Leu with the foreword by Vandana Shiva, is now available for Pre-Order.

Mexico announced that it was phasing out the use of glyphosate herbicides, the cultivation of GMO corn, and the import of GMO corn for human consumption and livestock feed by the end of 2024. The reasons for the decree given by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador are to protect the health of Mexico’s consumers and small-scale farmers, the environment, and the purity of Mexico’s native corn varieties.

With an emphasis on sharing training and experiences, Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) hosted a workshop that provided resources on agroecology as well as sharing strategies to set up viable and sustainable agroecological practices. Read this article to find out everthinf about this amazing event.

To shift from a significant emitter to a major mitigator of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, agriculture needs to change from the current dominant paradigm of chemically intensive, industrial/conventional systems to regenerative systems by focusing on plant biology and living soil sciences. Going to renewables is not enough now and this is why carbon dioxide removal through increasing soil carbon by scaling up best practice regenerative agriculture is critical to keeping the temperature rise below 1.5ºC.

The agriculture industry is one of the largest in the world and it keeps on growing with new developments in technology. Today, you see agricultural businesses and farms actively use social media platforms and reach out to customers through their websites. It has quickly become one of the most effective ways to engage the consumer. […]