Entries by Vía Orgánica

How to Have a Compassionate Christmas

COMPASSION in World Farming This Christmas, we can all make a few tweaks to our festive food choices to make them more animal and climate friendly. With the impacts of climate change already felt in our food system, these simple, science-backed swaps can help ensure we can continue to enjoy traditional feasts in Christmases to […]

Cows Help Farms Capture More Carbon in Soil, Study Shows

By James Tapper Cows may belch methane into the atmosphere at alarming rates, but new data shows they may play an important role in renewing farm soil. Research by the Soil Association Exchange shows that farms with a mixture of arable crops and livestock have about a third more carbon stored within their soil than those with […]

Taking Stock: Small Farmers Threatened by Electronic ID Plan

Source: Edible Dallas Fort Worth | by Judith McGeary Knowing where your food comes from is important. So wouldn’t animal traceability be a good thing? Not when it’s a program designed by Big Agribusiness, with the costs burdening small farmers and ranchers who sell truly traceable local food. In the early 2000s, the USDA developed […]

Comment: To Tackle Climate Change We Need to Make Regenerative Agriculture the Norm, Not the Exception

Source: Reuters | by Antoine de Saint-Affrique and Peter Bakker As Climate Week New York 2024 gets under way, the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and socio-economic instability demand urgent action. Agriculture plays a pivotal role in achieving net zero. Transforming agricultural value chains and supporting farmers is essential to producing food, fiber and feedstocks within planetary […]