: The work explores the legal structures governing land ownership and access, which dictate who can farm and what practices they can afford to implement [3]. 3. Policy Recommendations for a Sustainable Future
: The text emphasizes science-based practices like cover cropping, reduced tillage, and prescribed grazing as essential tools for building soil health and resilience [2, 3]. 2. The Legal Framework Farming for Our Future: The Science, Law, and P...
: A call to redirect federal funding away from practices that degrade soil and toward "climate-smart" agriculture that rewards farmers for ecological services [2, 3]. : The work explores the legal structures governing
: The authors highlight agriculture as one of the few sectors capable of "negative emissions" by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it in soil and perennial vegetation [2]. : Increasing public investment in agroecological research to
: Increasing public investment in agroecological research to help farmers transition to new systems with less financial risk [2]. 4. Why It Matters Now