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Climate change
How can we make education for sustainable development a reality?
We need to change our relationship with the natural world, and education plays a critical role in enabling that shift. Richard Dunne expl...
The Story of Our Food: Understanding food systems through education
Tessa Van Eijsden shares her thoughts on food education, highlighting the importance of understanding bigger picture when it comes to foo...
The TED Talks | Farming and Climate Change: Measuring Success
On the 29th April 2021, we launched our coalition for the Global Farm Metric project with TEDx Countdown. Watch the video recording from ...
New research challenges scientific orthodoxy on the role of grazing livestock in relation to emission reduction targets
We are highlighting the announcement of what is one of the world’s first soil carbon sequestration offsetting partnerships between Micros...
What a wonderful world
SFT policy director, Richard Young takes a look at the wildlife on his own farm and finds lessons for himself and future agricultural pol...
Kiss the Ground: What soil can do
Addressing the greatest challenge of our generation and perhaps the greatest of all time, the recently released film, ‘Kiss the Ground’, ...
Livestock and food security: A contested relationship
Robert Barbour takes a look at the complex relationship between livestock and food security and the role of some animal products in susta...
Nature’s store of wisdom: The value of open-pollinated seeds
Open-pollinated, organic seeds can give us more control over our food systems, empowering local communities while building better resilie...
Farming as the climate changes: Vilicus Farms, Havre, Montana
Next in our series on farming and climate change we interview Anna Jones-Crabtree, who owns and runs Vilicus Farms with her husband, Doug...
Farming as the Climate Changes: Six River Farm, Bowdoinham, Maine
We interview Nate Drummond who is the owner of Six River Farm in Maine along with his partner Gabrielle Gosselin to understand how they v...
Farming as the climate changes: White Oak Pastures, Bluffton, Georgia
First in our farming and climate change series, we feature Will Harris of White Oak Pastures