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The Rustic Farms Where French Prisoners Wrap Up Their Sentences

Juliette Fekkar

November 03, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: France, Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

The Moyembrie farm program allows French inmates to spend their final 9-12 months of incarceration working on a farm with social worker support rather than in traditional prison. This strategy has resulted in only 1 in 10 being sent back to prison and over half finding employment or training within three months of release—compared to France's national recidivism rate of over 60% within five years.

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Well Into the Future

Daniel Rothberg

November 03, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Smith Valley, Nevada

Nevada launched a $25 million pilot program in 2023 that pays farmers to voluntarily retire groundwater rights in over-pumped basins. The state-funded buyback purchases water rights at competitive rates and retires them to reduce unsustainable groundwater extraction, with the help of local organizations like the Walker Basin Conservancy. Since forming, the program retired approximately 22,500 acre-feet of groundwater rights, and the program's success led to unanimous bipartisan legislation to expand it.

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The Farmer Who Lets Nature Take the Lead

Karolina Chlumecka

October 20, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Czech Republic, Drahenice, Bohemia

Czech farmer Wenzel Lobkowicz adopted regenerative grazing on 200 hectares of degraded pastureland in Drahenice, moving cattle herds to fresh pasture sections daily to allow vegetation time to regenerate and soil to recover. After implementing this approach in 2019, Lobkowicz documented significant improvements, including a longer grazing season, deeper root systems, improved water retention and soil structure and increased biodiversity. Lobkowicz’s experience with regenerative farming has also inspired other area farmers to consider its feasibility.

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Organic Growth: How Turkey's Eco-Markets Took Root

Sevilay Nur Saraçlar

September 05, 2025 |

Transitions Online |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Turkey

Turkey's Bugday Association created a network of certified organic farmers' markets that directly connects small-scale producers with urban consumers, growing from 24 vendor stands to over 300 while reducing certification costs through group programs and municipal partnerships, though high prices still limit accessibility for lower-income consumers.

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As drought, climate change pressure El Paso water supply, farmers innovate to sustain orchards in one of nation's biggest pecan-growing hubs

Diego Mendoza-Moyers

August 11, 2025 |

El Paso Matters |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

El Paso pecan farmers are implementing innovative water conservation techniques—including cover crops, polymer soil treatments, and improved tillage practices—that are showing promising results in reducing water usage and salt buildup, with cover crops alone reducing weed populations by 80-90% while creating cooler, more moisture-retentive soil conditions that help orchards survive in increasingly drought-prone conditions.

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Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities

Lucia Torres

June 23, 2025 |

Mongabay |

Documentary |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Tanzania, Pemba Island

Seaweed farming on Pemba Island is allowing women to earn income and support their families. Improved cultivation techniques introduced by the Tanzanian government and The Nature Conservancy via a training program have not only accelerated economic but also environmental rehabilitation.

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Local, organic, and bipartisan: How Vermont is challenging Big Food

Stephanie Hanes

June 08, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Vermont

Vermont's community-led movement to build a thriving local agriculture economy, through nonprofit infrastructure investments, diversified farming practices, and bipartisan collaboration, has revitalized small farms, boosted food resilience, and offered a viable economic alternative to industrialized agriculture.

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Jakarta's Urban Farms Come To The Rescue Of Food-Insecure Residents

Arpan Rachman, Andi Aisyah Lamboge

April 23, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

Community-led urban farms in Jakarta empower residents to transform underused city spaces like alleyways and campus grounds into productive local food sources. These initiatives often blend traditional gardening with community organizing, educational outreach, and sometimes smart technology or agricultural research to improve food access, enhance green space, and foster local resilience.

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Farmworker Unions on the Rise in New York, Joined by the United Farm Workers

Lisa Held

March 31, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

Capitalizing on broad political-organizing pushes across the U.S., the United Farm Workers (UFW) union signed its first contract in New York, offering significant protections to about 150 orchard workers.

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Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine's Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?

Matilda Hay

March 09, 2025 |

Inside Climate News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Maine

Seaweed is emerging as a solution to Maine's shifting climate and economy, providing alternative industries for ocean farmers and also supporting land farmers' climate initiatives. While still in piloting stages, studies have shown up to 50 percent reductions in methane on New England cow farms that incorporate seaweed into feed.

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