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Agroecology Uprooted Episode One: System Failure
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (1776+ words) Listen below or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. In an increasingly destabilized world, farmers and food systems are in crisis. But agriculture is also contributing to this instability, driving climate change and biodiversity collapse, harming…...
Agroecology Meets the Care Economy: Bridging feminist economics and healthy food systems
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (85+ words) Dr. Marina Durano, Senior Director of the Pooled Fund, Collaborative for a Gender-Just Economy Dr. Sophia Murphy, Executive Director, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Achieving these shifts will require integrated governance approaches that bring agroecology and the care economy…...
Minnesota's new Climate Action Framework: A welcome path forward for climate action
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (324+ words) The Climate Action Framework, while not perfect, is a welcome step forward while the federal government shirks its responsibility to take action on climate change. We encourage state leaders to seize the opportunity in addressing climate change by cutting emissions…...
Climate-smart farming has risen the ranks in Midwest states
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (166+ words) Use the arrows in the upper left corner to switch between states. Use the replay button in the lower left corner to watch the change in EQIP practice ranking from 2021 to 2024." EQIP contracts are publicly available through a request to…...
USDA's new Regenerative Agriculture Initiative: A step forward or greenwashing?
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (288+ words) The involvement of HHS and the focus on regenerative agriculture is a result of the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) movement and its influence on the administration's agenda. While the RAI does support conservation, this is not a transformative, holistic,…...
IATP and IPS comment on the intersection of climate change, food systems, and human rights
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (407+ words) The challenges to our climate and food systems intersect in important ways, not only because of the impacts of erratic weather on food production or the emissions generated by agricultural production, but also because of the ways corporate power both…...
Climate's Emergency Brake: The imperative for a livestock transition to slow global warming
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (690+ words) Critical global warming limits are on the cusp of being breached and people are already facing dangerous climate impacts. The goal now is to avert the worst possible scenarios by fighting to curb all new climate pollution as much as…...
Global action on cutting methane pollution is falling short: Why this matters for agriculture
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (407+ words) Five years ago, the U. S. and the EU'launched an ambitious project during the world's annual climate summit: cut global methane pollution by 30% by the end of the decade " i. e. the Global Methane Pledge. Much of the world agreed with them, with 159 countries'signing…...
Study finds COP30 climate pledges lean heavily on land-based carbon removal over reducing emissions by protecting forests
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (286+ words) Bel'm, Brazil (12 November 2025) "An analysis of national climate plans released today at the COP30 climate summit warns that countries are failing to carry out the core work required to reduce emissions by halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation, and are…...
The Land Gap: Climate pledges favor unrealistic land-based carbon removal, ignoring our forests
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (294+ words) This week, the University of Melbourne launched the second edition of The Land Gap Report, which looks closely at countries" climate commitments and their implications for how land is to be used " and how forests need to be protected " to…...