Biodiversity on Agricultural Lands
Coastal Action partners with small agricultural businesses to support biodiversity on their farms through conservation planning and implementation of enhancement activities. Biodiversity is fundamental in agriculture. More diverse ecosystems have a greater ability to adapt to pressures related to climate change, and contribute to healthier, more productive lands. Biodiversity enhancement activities include planting shelterbelts, hedgerows, riparian buffers, pollinator habitats, or nest box installations.
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Carbon Sequestration on Agricultural Lands
With excess atmospheric carbon contributing greatly to our changing climate, Coastal Action promotes carbon sequestration practices as a tool for climate change mitigation. Our projects focus on agricultural practices, as agriculture has made a significant contribution to climate change by releasing soil organic carbon into the atmosphere through practices that erode and degrade soils, such as plowing, tilling, and land clearing. Our carbon sequestration projects support small agricultural businesses in developing demonstration sites that implement and showcase practices which provide crop yields while also sequestering carbon, like agroforestry, silvopasture, and perennial cropping systems.
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Are you a farmer looking to action a climate change project on your agricultural land? Do you have an idea for a new project?
Contact our Climate Change Program Manager, Jordan Veinot, [email protected].
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