Sustainable Agriculture Archives

Tim and Deleana Roseland describe what it means to keep their farm ready for the next generation of farmers: care for the land and the animals on it.

“Farming Is Who I Am”

Niman Ranch Farmer Tim Roseland is welcoming the next generation back to his farm, spreading his family’s tradition for sustainable and humane farming practices.

Gender inequality in agriculture puts the food system at risk. With better access to resources, women have the potential to lift millions out of hunger.

Controlling Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet

The control over food often signifies power over others. While women make up the majority of the agricultural labor force worldwide, they retain little control over their lives. With more resources, female farmers have the potential to regain this control while bringing millions out of hunger.

Optimizing Information Provision for Smallholder Farmers

Bridging the Information Gap in Cocoa Production

Dr. Christian Andres discusses how information delivery can be optimized for smallholder farmers.

A new photographic exhibit and campaign, We Feed the World, lifts up the stories of farmers who are charting a different future.

Who Will Feed the Future?

These farmers, photographed by world-renowned photographers, upend the dominant story that industrial agriculture—dependent on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and drug cocktails in animal operations—is key to feeding a growing world population.

Humanitarian organization INMED will install and update aquaponics systems for cooperatives of disabled farmers in South Africa to help them integrate better into the economy.

Aquaculture Improves the Livelihoods of Disabled Farmers in South Africa

INMED has received a grant from USAID for expanding its Adaptive Agriculture program. INMED will improve the livelihoods of farmers with disabilities through updating and installing aquaponics systems in Free State, South Africa.

Farmers are natural data scientists. With the emergence of Big Data, there are new opportunities to create information systems for farms that can make agriculture more efficient, profitable, and sustainable.

Agricultural Intelligence: What AI Can Do for Smallholder Farmers

Farmers have always been natural data scientists, conducting experiments and collecting data in their fields. Now, with the advent of Big Data, there are new opportunities to create information systems like the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture that can make farming more efficient, profitab

Urban farming is essential for economic, environmental, and regional stability as the world’s population is moving increasingly into its cities.

Farming the Cities: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet

The majority of the world’s population will live in urban areas in the next 30 years, making cities central to the future of food production. Urban farmers play a key role in the development of innovative agricultural methods.

National Coffee Day is September 29. Choosing more sustainable options can support farmers and help drive demand for sustainable coffee.

Ditch the Discounts This Coffee Day

National Coffee Day in the United States is September 29. Choosing more sustainable options can support farmers and help drive demand for sustainable coffee. This year, Fairtrade America and Conservation International suggests celebrating coffee in a way that honors the people and the work that goes

Fred Haberman’s marketing agency and aquaponics farm have helped push organic into the mainstream, leading the way for a more transparent food system and, little-by-little, reducing our dependence on chemical agriculture.

Re: Response to Fred Haberman on Making Organic Mainstream

“I was dismayed to read the article ‘Making Organic Mainstream.’ I am one of a group of old-time organic farmers who have been battling against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for allowing hydroponic, aquaponic, etc. to be certified ‘organic.'”

On Food Talk, Dani Nierenberg talks to farmers new and old about why humane animal treatment and sustainable farming practices are key for the next generation.

“Everybody Should Be a Farmer,” Says Paul Willis

On Food Talk, Paul Willis, founder of Niman Ranch Pork Company, and Elle Gadient, intern at Niman Ranch, talk about their love for humanely treated, free-range pigs and the farmers that raise them.