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Using a market-based approach, One Acre Fund facilitates activities and transactions at various levels of the farming value chain, including seed sourcing and market support. [2] In 2020, farmers who worked with One Acre Fund reported 33% in additional profit compared to non-participating farmers.
The idea for the Hands Free Hectare project was conceived in 2015 by two staff working in the Engineering Department at Harper Adams University, Kit Franklin and Jonathan Gill, who were frustrated by the pace and limited scope of academic developments in the area of field agricultural automation/robotics that they believed had become stagnant [1] when compared to tech sectors such as UAVs.
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]
A 25-acre (100,000 m 2) organic farm is located at Serenbe that provides organic produce throughout Atlanta and The Chattahoochee Hill Country. The 900 acres (3.6 km 2) of Serenbe lie in the heart of 40,000 acres (160 km 2) protected with a master plan that calls for 80% green space. Building sites are limited to 220 structures, including live ...
It is an alternative socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution that allows the producer and consumer to share the risks of farming. [1] The model is a subcategory of civic agriculture that has an overarching goal of strengthening a sense of community through local markets. [2]
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He created a model forest garden from a 0.12 acre (500 m 2) orchard on his farm and intended naming his gardening method ecological horticulture or ecocultivation. [88]: 45 Hart later dropped these terms once he became aware that agroforestry and forest gardens were already being used to describe similar systems in other parts of the world.
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