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Farmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology

By dragonarmy | January 4, 2022

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 46 cotton-farming families in Brazil’s Minas Gerais began practicing agroecology, a sustainable farming approach that works with nature.

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As its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon

By dragonarmy | December 31, 2021

Chances are, if you live in North America, you’ve eaten corn from the Corn Belt, a region in the United States Midwest that produces 75% of U.S. corn. Scientists have found that around 35% of the region has lost its most fertile A-horizon soil, more commonly known as topsoil, since European colonization in the 1800s, […]

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The complete guide to restoring your soil: Q&A with soil expert Dale Strickler

By dragonarmy | November 29, 2021

Son of a sharecropper and lifetime farmer, Dale Strickler has lived his life by the soil. Strickler grew up in an impoverished area near the Ozarks in the U.S. Midwest, where he says he watched as the crops on his family farm died from drought and as the topsoil washed away from tilled fields. “If […]

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Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

By dragonarmy | October 27, 2021

Like many rural families in Central America, Martín García and his sons devoted part of every growing season to slashing and burning a new strip of their land, knowing that it was the only way to make it fertile enough to yield food for everyone. They couldn’t grow on the land they had used in […]

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