The network of lighthouse farms creates real-life global outdoor classroom and laboratory that facilitates:
Provides excellent opportunities for engagement and collaboration with farmers, stakeholders, industry and policy makers.
Creates a global outdoor classroom and laboratory for valuable shared learning with real practitioners.
Proposes a mosaic of solutions suiting a diverse range of farms and food systems.
Lighthouse farms are existing, commercially viable farms in the real world; they are positive deviants and are 'already in 2050' in terms of providing sustainably produced food and ecosystem services.
GRAND FARM in Absdorf, Austria, is an organic farm applying low-tillage methods to maintain and improve the soil.
The Atsbi catchment in Ethiopia is a community that has successfully reversed land degradation in a semi-arid environment over the past twenty years.
AS Ziedi JP in Latvia comprises of 4000ha of land where 1000 dairy cows are being kept to produce biogas.
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Global agriculture finds itself at historic cross-roads: while population growth and rising affluence are leading to an increasing demand for food, agriculture is using land, energy and resources at rates that exceed the planetary boundaries and can thus not be sustained indefinitely. Notwithstanding recent efforts to incrementally improve the sustainability of our food, more radical changes are now required if we are to deliver on the many Sustainable Development Goals that refer to agriculture.
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Tewodros G. Asresehegn is a PhD student studying Sustainable Land Management in the Ethiopia highlands, he shares the story of the Ethiopian Lighthouse farm.
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Ana Marquez Barrenechea spent the last four months at the Spanish Lighthouse Farm, La Junquera. Read about her experience researching regenerative aromatics!
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