Carbon is a building block of life, a key component of the soil organic matter that helps crops grow. Carbon naturally cycles between the soil and the atmosphere through plants, but when too much carbon is released from the soil into the atmosphere it does no one any good. It hinders farmers’...
Ensuring food security and farmer livelihoods while reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture under an increasingly variable climate is a huge challenge all countries—rich and poor—share. Global and national policies and resources are needed to equip farmers with environmentally sound...
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries,” said 20th century American financier, statesman and four-decade Presidential adviser Bernard Baruch . “The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We...
An Agricultural Renaissance, led by innovative and entrepreneurial farmers, ranchers and foresters constructing sustainable, profitable and resilient systems that lay the foundation for a world of abundance on many scales capable of producing nutritious food, feed, fiber, clean energy, healthy ecosystems, quality livelihoods, and strong rural economies.