Agriculture - Food Systems

The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since all inputs to the project were ceased in 2016. Neal moved on from Al Baydha in 2018 and can now be...

"Over 70% of the food calories that feed humanity come from annual grain crops, which occupy 60–80% of global croplands. However, annual grain dominance may be changing.

With support from The Land Institute, researchers in China’s Yunnan Province developed a new high-yielding, long-lived perennial...

By restoring degraded areas, Muvuca can facilitate more carbon capture. The technique has been successful in Amazonia, the largest tropical forest in the world, as well as in Cerrado. Here, more than 294 tons of seeds using the muvuca technique were planted, which have resulted in the growth of more...

A topline review of the advance of regenerative agriculture in the US and adoption of related standards.

"It’s been more than 20 years since the USDA launched the National Organic Program that changed the American food system. Now, farmers and forward-thinking brands are embracing regenerative...

Farmers will be asked to consider whether they can carry on farming in the same ways they have done for decades at a Spring Debate hosted by the Future Farmers of Yorkshire at the Great Yorkshire Showground in March.

With farm input costs at an all-time high, existing farm support payments being...

Diet for a Green Planet, 15 ECTS, is an International Study Unit and aims to provide a grounded understanding of the food system from farm to fork and how the food system is connected to climate change mitigation and eutrophication, support biodiversity, rural development, human health, and rural...

This policy brief captures key observations around regenerative grazing systems and their ability to generate systemic value to ecosystems and communities. It focuses on systems and the needed shift from a conservation approach to an integrated use approach and related benefits. 

"The older...

In 175 non-developed countries around the world, over 40% of the population barely survives on less than $2 per day and depends on agriculture for its livelihood. And, the  number of farmers living in poverty is still on the rise. 

That is why to advance the agricultural sector in such economies...