Unveiling More Regionalized Carbon Accounting Data in Australia
This fall, the Cool Farm Alliance and Cool Soil Initiative, two Food Lab collaborations, will make on-farm carbon accounting more site specific. At the end of the day, all agriculture…
The Race to Put Numbers to Nature: Dead-End or Genuine Opportunity?
By Ben Harris The other day I headed out on a neighborhood stroll, the cloying heat of the apartment behind me and dissipating with every step. I’ve taken to listening…
Key factors for Successful Living Income Programs
By Molly Leavens With programs now underway around the world, living income is no longer just an idea. In collaboration with the Living Income Community of Practice, we have distilled…
“Harvesting Actions for Impact at Scale” with the Cool Farm Alliance
In May, the Cool Farm Alliance held the Annual Meeting ambitiously titled, “Harvesting Actions for Impact at Scale.” Being in-person again for the first time since 2019, allowed The Food…
Measure Who Matters: Relationship-Driven Climate Accounting in the Age of Digitalization
We’re somewhere north of Fargo, baking under a late-July sun and knee-deep in rolling hills of soy that belong to a farmer who’s been on the forefront of soil building…
Spotlight on Colombian Coffee Growers: Living Income Deep Dive
By Christina Archer and Stephanie Daniels Our work these days in the Food Lab is primarily organized around the two broad outcomes of agricultural systems that regenerate soil and ecosystem…
Blinding Flashes of the Obvious: Three Insights about the Future of Farming
By Hal Hamilton Joseph Racape is a retired farmer and former advisor to the French Minister for the Environment. As Joseph showed some friends and me around his village and…
Living Income Guidance for Governments
A new guidance document is available on “The Role of Governments in Enabling Living Income in Global Agriculture Value Chains: Guidance for public policy makers”. The document creation was led…
Opportunity to Expand What’s Working in Regen Ag
The Sustainable Food Lab is a technical partner along with many other organizations in support of the Midwest Row Crop Collaborative (MRCC) Climate Smart Commodities grant proposal. Focusing on row…
Us-Versus-Them Gets in the Way of Regenerative Agriculture: We need conventional farmers
By Hal Hamilton I’ve been thinking about the cultural divide between mainstream farmers and those who self-identify as regenerative or organic. As with many other issues, people get stuck…
