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What’s Farming got to do with the 1m Species Threatened with Extinction? 10 Key reads

May 9, 2019 Helene Schulze

This week saw the publication of a damning report on the human destruction of the natural world. 1m species are threatened with extinction. Agriculture has a big role to play in this. Here are the top reads to flesh out what the environmental and climate impacts of the current farming system are and what can be done. […]

Is Carbon Neutrality Possible with Agroecology?

April 29, 2019 ARC

How do land sparing and land sharing scenarios play out? Is it possible to reach carbon neutrality in agri-food, using an agroecological approach, one that also takes other pertinent societal issues like soil health, human health and biodiversity into account? And what assumptions are built into land sparing scenarios? […]