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Why Farmers in Zimbabwe Are Shifting to Bees

Andrew Mambondiyani

February 06, 2023 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Zimbabwe, Mutare

Farmers in Zimbabwe are diversifying their income with beekeeping to offset financial losses from crops underperforming during increasingly severe droughts.

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Healthy soil can be a climate change solution

Caleigh Wells

February 02, 2023 |

KCRW |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Fillmore, California

Regenerative agriculture is slowly spreading across the farming world as a way to improve soil health and combat climate change. The practice is made up of several different methods, like cover cropping and planting a wide range of crops, that make the soil better at capturing carbon while producing quality foods without fertilizers.

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Adapting Corn for Tortillas—and New Markets—in the Pacific Northwest

Nhatt Nichols

February 01, 2023 |

Civil Eats |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Chimacum, Washington

The Organic Seed Alliance is running corn seed trials to find a variety that can grow in the Pacific Northwest’s short growing season to improve local farmers’ climate crisis resiliency.

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Crop of the future? More climate-hit Kenyans count on fish farming

Caroline Wambui

January 16, 2023 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Kibingo

The Kirinyaga county government is helping Kenyan farmers build fish ponds and supplying them with their first stock of fish and food in an effort to diversify their incomes while adding rainwater storage amid the drought.

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Bringing back California's wild bees

Ashley Braun

December 21, 2022 |

High Country News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

The Bee Better Certified program encourages farmers to to build and restore habitat for native bees on their land. Doing so can earn them the certification, reduce the need to rent honeybees for pollinationion, and benefit the planet.

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How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Ignacio Amigo Sam Cowie Avener Prado

December 09, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil, Nova Califórnia, Rondônia

Agroforestry is a farming method in which a variety of crops, plants, and trees are planted mimicking the makeup of a forest. The practice is becoming more popular in Rondônia, Brazil, as a sustainable farming option to restore land degraded from livestock ranching while providing an income for small farmers.

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Breaking Old Ground

Liz Mirabelli Nye

December 05, 2022 |

The Xylom |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

A chestnut farmer in Massachusetts is practicing agroforestry to restore soil health in his fields and build a long-term sustainable farming system. The practice varies widely from farm to farm, but his choices include planting perennial crops and native plants between the chestnut trees for diversification.

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Farmers in India are fighting climate change using nature

Sibi Arasu

November 16, 2022 |

Euronews |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh

The Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre nonprofit works with over 60,000 farmers across 300,000 acres of land, supporting individual farmers to restore unproductive land across the entire region by using regenerative agriculture practices. Techniques include using natural fertilizers and planting crops alongside trees and other plans to prevent desertification.

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Zimbabwean Farmers Adopt Alternative to Protect Crops

Kovedzayi Takawira

November 14, 2022 |

The Solutions Paper |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Zimbabwe, Harare

Farmers in Zimbabwe are turning to an elephant repellant called Chilli to keep the animals from eating their crops. The mixture includes ingredients like chillies, raw eggs, and cattle dung which elephants can smell from far away and want to avoid.

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Reshaping the Corn Belt: Ohio farmers are changing how they farm to be more climate-friendly

Alejandro Figueroa

October 03, 2022 |

WVXU Radio |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Ohio

Farmers in Ohio are implementing regenerative farming practices like growing pollinator plots and cover crops for improved soil health, increased yield, and economic benefits.

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