Ana Zepeda won a $7,300 grant to help women in Mérida, Mexico, plant a community garden that boosts child nutrition and school attendance while building resilience to disasters and advancing global sustainability goals.
An international team, including Cameron Pittelkow, developed a strategy for reducing nitrogen fertilizer use in China’s rice production. Their plan would cut pollution, boost efficiency, and sustain food security while addressing environmental harm.
The University of California, Davis, recently announced that philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, co-owners of The Wonderful Company, have pledged the largest gift ever to the university by individual donors. The $50 million pledge will support the school’s longstanding commitment to address today’s most pressing challenges in agriculture and environmental sustainability.
A UC Davis study with the Environmental Defense Fund found that nitrate leaching in agricultural fields increases with a higher nitrogen balance. Reducing nitrogen rates and improving efficiency can cut leaching losses, benefiting sustainability.
Sorghum is an earthy, nutty, gluten-free grain that boasts remarkable drought tolerance. It also poses serious potential as a sustainable crop in a warming world.
It has been proposed that ecosystem service markets – an economic model that encourages ecological conservation and regeneration by establishing a supply-and-demand market for things like water and biodiversity – are the solution for sustainable food systems on rangelands. Despite this conceptual argument, these market types have failed to emerge.
