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.
The Atsbi catchment in Ethiopia is a community that has successfully reversed land degradation in a semi-arid environment over the past twenty years.
Complex rice systems in Indonesia combine rice production with the cultivation of fish, azolla and ducks, creating resilient system.
ERF is a private organic agriculture company with a team of a small number of enthusiastic people. Hemus foundation and company was founded by ERF in 2019..
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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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