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  • Can Fruit Save Our Food Waste Problem?

    June 15, 2016 |

    Los Angeles Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles-based nonprofit Food Forward was born out of the observation that many farmers are growing more fruit than they can sell at market. To cut down on food waste and get these viable fruits into the hands of people that are food insecure, Food Forward operates as the "transfer point between donors and receiving agencies," while also coordinating volunteers to forage the local farms and farmers markets.

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  • Why the Gates Foundation is flooding a new rice variety with funding

    June 09, 2016 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: India, Bihar

    With climate changes causing extreme fluctuations in the weather, agricultural conditions and small farming operations are suffering around the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funded research and initiatives that reduce poverty in the world and increase agricultural development. The Foundation supports the tools, crops, and partnerships for more robust and resilient crop yields through its Stress Tolerant Rise for Africa and South Asia initiative.

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  • Farming in the Desert

    June 01, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Ajo, Arizona

    Ajo, Arizona is home to a growing collective, collaboration of local agriculture and food-based initiatives. The small town coordinates actors from schools, restaurants, the farmers’ market, local gardens, and community supported agriculture initiatives in a network under the Ajo Regional Food Partnership. The network also works with the Desert Senita Community Health Center, making sure the benefits of the collaboration equitably reach all citizens.

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  • Researchers work to make milk greener

    May 31, 2016 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Morris, Minnesota

    Researchers at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research and Outreach Center are looking for ways to make producing dairy milk less energy intensive - something consumers are increasingly demanding. They have had some initial success in increasing efficiency using techniques such as capturing heat from the milk to heat water and experimenting with solar and wind to offset some electricity use.

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  • Sharing the shortage

    May 27, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Talpa, New Mexico

    Farmers and land owners in the Rio Grande del Rancho region are using a collaborative, community-based approach fostered by acequias to ensure better sharing of water resources in times of scarcity.

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  • Can cutting down trees protect New Mexico's water?

    May 26, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    New Mexico adapts an innovative forestry idea from Quito, Ecuador, to prevent unpredictable and untamable forest fires. The application of this idea, called the Rio Grande Water Fund, raises money around the Rio Grande valley to pay for the thinning of overgrown forests on private and public lands. When trees are thinned out in dense areas, it's more difficult for fires to jump from the ground to the tree tops, which inhibits the rapid spreading of flames we've seen in recent years.

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  • After years of drought and overuse, the San Luis Valley aquifer refills

    May 26, 2016 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Centre, Colorado

    An over-taxed basin in Colorado is getting its water use under control through the sub-district project, an innovative user-led solution for solving water problems.

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  • Chicken farming brightens future for Haitians

    May 23, 2016 |

    The Tennessean |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Gressier

    Middle Tennessee nonprofit KORE Foundation is combating poverty in rural Haiti with the help of chickens.

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  • How To Store Onion Without Storehouses? Teen Finds A Way Out

    May 23, 2016 |

    NDTV (New Delhi TV) |

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    Response Location: India, Dedla

    Indian farmers frequently struggle with cheap ways to store their produce. A new kind of low-cost onion storage facility, built by 19-year-old farmer Rohit Patel, may eventually come to the rescue of onion farmers across the country.

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  • U.S. Fish And Wildlife Cease Dell Creek Wolf Pack Kill

    May 20, 2016 |

    Wyoming Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Bondurant, Wyoming

    Growing wolf populations in Wyoming are forcing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make hard decisions about culling the endangered species in order to preserve local wildlife and livestock.

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