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  • Farmers Markets Can Be a Form of Climate Action. Here's How

    December 19, 2024 |

    Sentient |

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    Response Location: United States

    Farmers markets, supported by federal, state, and private food assistance programs, are helping to bridge gaps left by disparate food access by offering a direct distribution model.

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  • How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

    December 19, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

    GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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  • Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

    December 17, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Jubilee Justice, a nonprofit helping small-holder Black farmers in the South grow specialty rice with a “dry-land” method developed in the 1970s and 1980s (rather than growing rice in flooded paddies, farmers treat rice like a vegetable, irrigating it as needed), now supports 10 farmers from Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Kentucky; together, they have lowered the global warming potential of their rice production by 25 percent on average.

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  • Nimble Electric Trucks Are Supercharging African Trade

    December 05, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    In Rwanda, a fleet of simple, efficient trucks is helping farmers get their harvest to market before the goods spoil. For one farmer renting space in one of the trucks, the improved market access enabled them to go from selling 400 to 4,000 kilograms of produce a week.

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  • Fertiliser: Women embrace sustainable alternative for food security, soil preservation

    December 05, 2024 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In 2020, Nigeria's Centre for Community Empowerment and Poverty Eradication (CCEPE) and Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria (SWOFON) began to train women farmers on the use of dung and plant wastes as organic fertiliser and pesticides; to date, CCEPE has trained 40 women farmers in Asa and 20 women farmers in Kaima, resulting in more bountiful harvests and economic savings.

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  • A building wave: The corporate-Indigenous partnerships doing things differently

    December 03, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    New philanthropic funding models are distributing to Indigenous peoples and local communities in climate and biodiversity hotspots, enabling them to continue traditional practices that greatly benefit the environment. One core principle is the building of strong on-the-ground relationships, then providing “no-strings” grants with little follow-up reporting required.

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  • Is giving old papers new life a sustainable solution for the environment?

    November 22, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory

    Joebliss Enterprise purchases and collects paper waste from homes, businesses, and collection agents in Abuja, Nigeria, and processes it for recycling, reducing the amount that produces methane emissions in landfills.

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  • Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

    November 19, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Otis, Massachusetts

    The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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  • El náhuat florece: instrucciones para salvarlo de la extinción

    November 18, 2024 |

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    Response Location: El Salvador

    Timumachtikan Nawat involucra directamente a los abuelos y abuelas hablantes de náhuat en la enseñanza dentro de su plataforma, organizando talleres virtuales sobre diversos aspectos de la cultura náhuat salvadoreña, como la vestimenta tradicional, sabores artesanales, mitología náhuat, música en náhuat y la cultura del maíz, entre otros—esfuerzos que no solo preservan el idioma, sino que también mantienen vivas las prácticas y conocimientos ancestrales.

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  • Ideas We Should Steal: More Worker-Owned Businesses

    November 12, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Democracy Brewing is a worker cooperative, which means worker-owners split the profits and have an equal say in business decisions that affect working conditions. Studies show that this type of business structure results in higher wages and household wealth for workers of color, and these workers also tend to stay in their positions longer.

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