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211 David LeZaks and David Strelneck – Why the USDA gave a grant to $600k to figure out how to pay farmers for quality

Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food

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You Are in Burn Life Dot Something. I Will Find It.

A colleague of mine set out to stop the degradation of traditional sheep farms and wildflower biodiversity in this ecologically and culturally rich part of Ireland. We can tell the story later of how he went about it, but the success is it worked and it worked in part by incentivizing sheep farmers to restore fields with fewer sheep and more biodiversity. The whole region then begin to subsidize the sheep farmers because they are producing fewer sheep, but they're bringing immense economic benefit to everybody. It's a really exciting and compelling model.

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