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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Forest Farming
2017-01-30 16:28:26| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, Director of Conservation Policy and NFU Foundation Last week, the Climate Column discussed one practice, alley cropping, that builds climate resilience of farmland by incorporating trees. The National Agroforesty Center (NAC) promotes other such practices, including forest farming. Forest farming is the cultivation of high-value specialty crops under the protection of a forest canopy that has been […]
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Study: How climate change threatens mountaintops (and clean water)
2017-01-25 23:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Mountains are far more than rocks. About half of the world's drinking water filters through their high-elevation forests, plants, and soils, among other natural benefits. Now, a new first-of-its kind study, in the journal Nature, shows how these mountain ecosystems around the globe may be threatened by climate change. Rising temperatures over the next decades appear likely to “decouple” key nutrient cycles in mountain soils and plants, an international team of…
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Alley Cropping
2017-01-23 16:41:22| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, Director of Conservation Policy and NFU Foundation The Climate Column has covered many practices supported by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). In addition to its own work promoting conservation practices, NRCS also collaborates with the United States Forest Service to provide resources through the National Agroforestry Center (NAC) to help farmers contribute to climate resilience. NAC promotes […]
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What Do Farmers Need to Know About Climate Change? United States Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization
2017-01-17 18:41:37| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education National Farmers Union (NFU) members understand the negative impacts of climate change are exacerbated by greater concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the Earths atmosphere. Everyone in the world should be concerned about the broad consequences of climate change, but family farmers are particularly worried about the direct impact climate change […]
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What Can Farmers Do About Climate Change? Forage and Biomass Planting
2017-01-09 17:57:50| National Farmers Union
By Thomas Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education Since October, when the Climate Column started featuring ways farmers can address climate change, we have primarily discussed practices to build climate resilience in crop production. There are, of course, many things livestock producers can do about climate change as well. Livestock producers often have […]
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