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.
Symbiosis: an organic community in Finland creating a local circular economy with the ambition to become net exporters of both food and energy.
The Lands at Dowth in Ireland aims to produce healthy beef on the historic World Heritage site of Dowth, by developing a healthy ecosystem from soil to grass to animals.
The Atsbi catchment in Ethiopia is a community that has successfully reversed land degradation in a semi-arid environment over the past twenty years.
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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.
Tatiana Moreira MSc, reflects on her internship experience at the Finnish lighthouse Farm, Palopuro Symbiosis, during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This is the fourth blog post by Howard Koster in the 'Future Farmer' series.
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This is the third blog post by Howard Koster in the "Future Farmer" series.
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