05/18/2024 SOURCE: www.marijuanamoment.net
GOP House leaders have released a draft version of large-scale agriculture legislation that could reduce regulatory barriers for certain hemp farmers and scale-back a ban on industry participation by people with prior drug felony convictions. The legislation also omits any provisions that would ban hemp-derived cannabinoid products that some parties have pushed for. The House […]
GOP House Leaders Propose Reducing Regulatory Barriers For Some Hemp Growers In Draft Farm Bill
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: www.fao.org
Connecting women and improving livelihoods through training and support from experienced peers
A mentor for women farmers in Azerbaijan
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: www.cnbc.com
Women make many of the day-to-day decisions on farms, and manage the business finances. Here's how the women of Alstede Farms showcase this trend.
These sisters became co-owners of the family farm at 22 and 24, joining the ranks of women as key decision-makers on farms
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: news.un.org
Kornelia Icha has never gone hungry or got close to starvation. Very few people do in Indonesia with its fertile soil and tropical climate. But, until a recent intervention by the National Food Agency, her diet consisted mostly of rice, corn, onions and the occasional meat dish.
Hungry for data: Tackling food insecurity in rural Indonesia
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: www.economist.com
But golden rice could help thousands of nutrient-deficient children
The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: www.newsweek.com
The proposed 5,200 acre site would be Wyoming's largest solar facility, generating enough electricity to power roughly 73,000 homes.
Satellite image shows plans for vast new solar farm in US
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com
BENGUET, Philippines — Anita Sinakay grew up with her farmer parents saving seeds, a practice she continues now that she has her own farm. Today, Sinakay heads the Benguet Association of Seed Savers (BASS), a group of organic farmers that was formed pre-pandemic to revive the dying practice of saving seeds among agricultural Indigenous groups […]
For drought relief, Cordilleran women in the Philippines rely on seed saving
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: news.mongabay.com
Each morning, as Luis Arrieta heads out to begin work on his shade-grown coffee farm, vindication comes in the form of birdsong gushing from the trees, a cacophony of trills and warbles of passerines punctuated by the croaks of the groove-billed toucanet (Aulacorhynchus sulcatus). “It’s one of the rewards of my job,” he says. An […]
Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: www.va.gov
“I know that you are not defined by chronic illness or physical disability, but it can demoralize you and cause you to give up. This class showed me that I can still achieve – and I can still dream.”
Veterans Find Healing Working with Horse | VA Tennessee Valley health care | Veterans Affairs
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05/18/2024 SOURCE: umaine.edu
More than 3,600 different species of bees are native to the U.S. Over the past century, their presence has significantly declined due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. Up to 40% of pollinator species are at risk of extinction. Bees, moths, butterflies and other pollinators provide a key…
Black Bear Beekeepers join national fight to preserve pollinators - UMaine News - University of Maine
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