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Trends to scale collective impact at the 2023 Sustainable Agriculture Summit...
By Maggie MonastEstablishing a cover crop during the cool season. In early December, the EDF climate-smart agriculture team will join hundreds of farmers, food and agriculture companies, university...
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Water is a high-level priority at COP 28, we need to look to ground-level...
By Ann HaydenWater has finally reached the highest levels of global climate negotiations. The path to a sustainable freshwater future, however, lies with ground-level users. At COP 28, EDF is elevating...
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Revisiting a centuries-old approach to farming that embraces water scarcity.
By afajardoanstineAs discussions at COP28 wrestle with climate impacts on global food and water security, we hear from a Hopi farmer on his thriving practice of dry farming and his hopes for shared...
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Good manure management must involve ammonia emissions, too
By Mindi DePaola When it comes to livestock and environmental impacts, methane emission reductions are often top of mind — and for good reason. Lowering methane emissions from animal agriculture is one...
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Closing the enteric methane emissions innovation gap: A call for funding...
By Peri Rosenstein and Nicole Jenkins Methane emissions are a potent greenhouse gas, warming the climate more than 80 times faster than carbon dioxide on a 20-year timescale. Rapidly and significantly...
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New Report: How high-quality carbon offsets can lower livestock methane...
Authors: Erin Leonard and Maggie Monast With more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after its release, methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gasses. One...
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Four takeaways from a year of global action on food, agriculture and climate
By Jennifer Chow Global leaders increasingly recognize that agriculture and food systems must be part of solutions to the climate crisis. From the first Food Systems Pavilion at a UN climate conference...
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Without financing solutions, farmers have to leave money — and environmental...
By Guest AuthorThis op-ed was originally published in Hoard’s Dairyman. Since its initial publication, the financial uncertainty for farmers engaging in conservation practices has grown substantially....
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Animal health is key to healthy people and planet
By Peri Rosenstein Maintaining animal health isn’t only an essential practice for livestock farming, though any farmer or rancher will agree that’s true. It’s also a way to lower the methane intensity...
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Celebrating the groundbreaking of a natural infrastructure project to combat...
By Michelle LovejoyEnvironmental Defense Fund (EDF) joined North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) at a groundbreaking event today to celebrate the progress of a new and significant...
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