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…
Scaling Agricultural Transition: Understanding Why Agriculture Is The Way It Is & Then ID Leverage Points
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Large-scale commodity agriculture functions the way it does for understandable reasons. But that hardly means it needs to remain stuck in the status…
The Role of Procurement, Marketing & Finance in Investing in Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Climate Risk
By Elizabeth Reaves & Hal Hamilton Within a food and beverage company, climate risk affects each function in different ways – and each of these functions can help farmers…
New Scale Lab Report: Regenerative Agriculture and the Role of Companies in Galvanizing Systems Change
Culminating in this report and accompanying resources, the Food Lab and Midwest Row Crop Collaborative led a group of ten companies and The Nature Conservancy to develop an exciting and…
Trailblazers in Soil Health: No-till on the Plains
Photo shows Steve Swaffar, Executive Director of No-till on the Plains (left) with Jim Johnson, Agronomist at Noble Research Institute (right) examining soil. Steve is an active SHLL member, passionate…
Hospice in the time of COVID
By Elizabeth Reaves In the context of COVID, I am finding the tension between current reality and systems transformation to be paralyzing and I came to the concept of…
A View of the Future While Standing in the Mud
By Elizabeth Reaves Just a few weeks ago the Food Lab and some of our corporate partners were standing around in the muddied farmyard of a large Washington State dairy,…
Bold Effort Launched Turn Agriculture from a Major GHG Source into a Climate Change Solution
Last month, Daniella Malin, the Food Lab’s Agriculture & Climate Program Director, participated in a launch meeting of OpenTEAM in Denver, Colorado. The collaborative project seeks to harness vast amounts…
Webinar: Lessons Learned: Two Years of Small Grains in the Corn Belt
As part of our Small Grains in the Corn Belt initiative, Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) and the Food Lab are asking the questions: Can farmers be profitable when adding…
Finding a Catalyst for Change in Agriculture- PODCAST
Elizabeth Reaves, our Senior Program Director of Agriculture and Environment, is featured in Our Farms, Our Future podcast produced by SARE exploring a catalyst for change in agriculture. Listen to Episode…
