On our Teltane Farm in Monroe, Maine, USA, we have begun adapting System of Crop Intensification (SCI) ideas to our carrot production, with considerable success in this second trial season (2014). A previous and smaller trial of SCI for carrots in 2012 was very successful and encouraged us to expand and duplicate the methods that […]
During the latter half of the twentieth century, most efforts to increase food production were based on apotheosis was dubbed the green revolution, has raised the output of food, but with substantial and growing financial and environmental costs, and for some years it has been encountering diminishing agronomic and economic returns (Peng et al., 2010; […]
How did COP28 address agriculture and climate change? The headline outcome of COP28 was the agreement to phase down fossil fuel usage – a significant step forward in global climate policy. Equally noteworthy, however, was the attention given to sustainable agriculture’s role in climate change mitigation and the need for its adaptation to a changing […]