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Could this ancient farming technique of terracing be a climate solution?
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Could this ancient farming technique be a climate solution?

Terracing has been used for centuries to help prevent fire, moderate temperatures, and make farming possible even when water is scarce.
guardians of creole seeds

In Brazil’s northeast, family farmers are guardians of creole seeds

Families in northeastern Brazil’s Alto Jequitinhonha region have held out against industrial farming by preserving dozens of traditional seed varieties through generations of family farming.

climate desertification and greening the desert

How to prevent the planet from becoming an uninhabitable desert

Deserts across the world are rapidly expanding as more and more soils dry out and lose their fertility. How can we breathe life back into desolate sandy landscapes and green the desert? Here are four ideas.
Drought-resistant farming

Drought-resistant farming catching on in New Mexico

More farmers are using cover crops, soil additives and crops suitable for drip irrigation in order to weather the drought.
Small coffee farmers lay their chips on smart agriculture

Small coffee farmers lay their chips on smart agriculture to overcome climate crisis in the Cerrado biome

The strategies adopted for more resilient crops include agroforestry, connected landscapes, and water resource management.

B.C.’s Sunshine Coast improvised drought resilience

B.C.’s Sunshine Coast improvises to survive long-term drought

Farmers, gardeners, brewers and regional managers are banding together in a beautiful partnership to both store and distribute water across the extraordinarily parched coastal region, just north of Vancouver.

Kettle River watershed BC

Life in the Kettle Basin, the heart of B.C.’s summer drought

For ranchers, farmers and foresters alike, the extreme dry conditions in the Kettle River watershed have forced a reckoning with the region's intensive clearcut logging — and what people across the region can do to remedy decades of human impact to sensitive ecosystems.

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