FAO, in cooperatation with SADC, initiated the first phase of a sub-regional programme, "Learning to Live with Drought", which aims to identify and develop technologies, policies and strategies that would enable farming systems to cope with droughts.
In this study we describe how new synergies between farmers, educators, associations, and local and regional governments have created kindergarten farms that foster the transmission of farm wisdom and experience to younger generations, enable farm families to stay on their land and prosper, and offer high quality Montessori education to areas poorly served by traditional facilities.
In work supported by the New York Farm Viability Institute, Cornell Cooperative Extension and NOFA-NY are working together to identify real-world best management practices that will enable farms to maintain soil health and fertility in their high tunnels over the long haul.
If the design of regulatory measures considers both changing dynamics, it may enable farms to adapt and transform while maintaining traditional grassland management practices.
Development of dynamic markets can enable farms to be profitable and thus permits generation of capital for investment in soil and water protection.
This is food chain 101, but in many sectors of agriculture, elements of the chain have been intentionally plucked from the lineup in order to enable productive farming.
"Both grants were used with the very definite aim of being able to grow membership enough to enable the farm to become financially self sufficient," explains Joanne.
As saithe and cod condition is enhanced by farms, an opportunity exists to protect wild fish around salmon farms where they are aggregated and vulnerable to fishing, thus enabling farms to act as a population source.
Following the historical inundation by paleo-seawater during coastal progradation, the aquifer has been undergone progressive freshening and land reclamation to enable settlements and farming.
But experts say the present-day Belgian draft was bred in the mid-19th century for work in transport and to enable more efficient farming.
