Solutions from the Land Unveils Video Showing the Solutions Farmers Can Offer to Meet Global Challenges

November 20, 2020

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(Solutions from the Land) A 20-minute video presentation in which Solutions from the Land farmer leaders offer a vision of solutions that farming operations can deliver to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by UN member nations is now available on YouTube.

This presentation, Solutions from the Land: Enabling Farmers to Meet Global Sustainable Development Goals and the Call for an Agricultural Renaissance, was first shown at the 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Summit (http://www.sustainableagsummit.org/) on November 18, 2020.

In January 2021, Solutions from the Land (SfL) plans to release its upcoming white paper, created by a group of farmer envoys and advisors, which describes North American agriculture’s perspective on how transformational change in the agricultural system can meet global mega-challenges represented by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper will seek to answer the critical question: “what will the future look like for the next generation of farmers?”

In this preview of the report, SfL's farmer envoys present their farms as case study examples of real producers describing innovative, integrated land management systems that produce multiple benefits, improving climate, clean air and water, and biodiversity, as well as economic resilience and rural livelihoods. Solutions from the Land (SfL) is a 501c3 nonprofit where farmers are at the forefront of finding land-based solutions to global challenges.

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The 17 SDGs, represent a blueprint to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. The goals seek to curb climate change, eliminate hunger, restore water quality and promote inexpensive, clean energy, among other far-reaching objectives.

Sharing their experiences on the video are SfL Co-Chairs AG Kawamura, a California grower and shipper, and Fred Yoder, an Ohio wheat and grain farmer; SfL board member Pat O'Toole, who owns and operates a large-scale cattle and sheep operation that straddles the Colorado-Wyoming border and is president of the Family Farm Alliance; and SfL Farmer Envoys Adrienne Mollor, a Massachusetts cranberry operation owner and grower for the Ocean Spray Cooperative; and Trey Hill, who, along with his family, owns a Maryland farm that grows corn, wheat and soybeans.

Each producer explains how their operation employs innovative, sustainable practices, including integrated land management systems that produce multiple benefits such as stemming climate change, boosting clean air and water, and enhancing biodiversity. Using their cell phones and their farms and ranches as backdrops, they tell the SfL story and outline how agriculture can be a major pathway to achieving climate and other SDGs.

The video also serves as a preview of an SfL white paper and video case study series set for release in January 2021. The white paper and videos will detail farmer, rancher and forester perspectives on how transformational, systemic change can meet the global mega-challenges articulated by the SDGs. Written by farmers, the report will call for an agricultural renaissance and will outline what farmers need to deliver high value solutions that will improve rural livelihoods and the planet. WATCH VIDEO

Thank you to our speakers:

AG Kawamura (Co-Chair, Solutions from the Land)

Adrienne Mollor (Grower/Owner, Mollor Cranberries)

Pat O'Toole (President, Family Farm Alliance)

Trey Hill (Owner/Manager, Harborview Farms)

Fred Yoder (Co-Chair, Solutions from the Land)

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