GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry. Food & Agriculture. Heather Clancy. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:05. We anticipate continued growth as industries expand their use of visual data to streamline operations.". According to the company, which has roots in the U.K. Information Technology. Featured Column.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

With biodiversity monitoring set to increase through the introduction of policies and schemes, it’s vital to assist ecologists with access to scalable remote technologies, says the group behind it. This, in turn, will reveal more about the diversity of bugs and seeds above ground, and the richness of life in the soil.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

These flooding events have long been known for having a direct or indirect link with biodiversity loss. These events can also have a positive impact, such as enriching the soil with newer nutrients, but in most cases, they cause more devastation than good. Hence the loss of biodiversity is very evident here.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 28, 2024

Agriculture contributes to environmental degradation and biodiversity loss, impacting the planet as the population grows. Adopting sustainable agroecological practices, emphasizing biodiversity and soil health, can mitigate these issues.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now. For example, despite more than 30 years of good science and best practices that support conservation agriculture in the United States, less than 5 percent of U.S. Food & Agriculture. Biodiversity. Food & Agriculture. William Ginn.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climate change nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We know that large-scale agriculture threatens biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Guinness says it is undertaking one of the most ambitious regenerative agriculture pilots ever conducted in Ireland. Regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming that aims to work in harmony with the natural environment to put back more than it takes out. It is a highly effective approach that leads to much better outcomes”.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 29, 2023

How much does healthy soil impact our climate resiliency? Optimizing best practices in land management can increase biodiversity, enrich soil, and protect water quality, ultimately making our soil more resilient to climate instability. Measuring land use and soil health at scale can be complex and resource intensive.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 13, 2019

Regenerative agriculture is about improving soil through better farm practices. The aim is to use farming practices that increase soil health through increased biodiversity, water retention, topsoil protection, and other farming process improvements. One key measure of healthy soil is carbon content.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I’ve come to Stone House Farm from Brooklyn to learn more about how regenerative agriculture — the nature-based approach to farming generating all kinds of buzz around its climate mitigation potential — actually works. Early research also indicates farmers using these techniques can reap long-term financial gains. .

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 17, 2022

UCHU spice and sustainable agriculture. Not only that, but they’re challenging intensive agricultural models by showing sustainable agriculture is not only needed but delivers better business. They also reinforce sustainable agricultural practices that complement Earth’s natural rhythms.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

The biomethane industry, policy makers and regulators need to work closely together to fully realise these benefits, prioritising organic waste and residue feedstocks, incentivizing sustainable agricultural production and valorising biomethane co-products (digestate and biogenic CO2).” Not all of these benefits can be easily quantified.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took center stage. .

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity also plays an essential role in the well-being of the planet.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

"Concretely, when you look at Danone, 60 percent of our carbon footprint is from agriculture," Soubeiran acknowledged. Eighty-nine percent of our water footprint is from agriculture. That is why it's very important for us to have an opinion about the agriculture model we want.".

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Farming and agriculture are essential for life to survive on earth. Agriculture and farming also affect global warming. Regenerative farming: Many experts have suggested that regenerative farming will help farmers save the earth and lessen agriculture’s impact on the motherland. Farmers contribute the most to humanity.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

To halt ecosystem breakdown and limit costs of further damage, the European Union (EU) needs an integrated nutrient directive that regulates the combined agricultural use of nitrogen and phosphorus, urges a new comment in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Nitrogen and phosphorus reach streams and lakes as agricultural run-off.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The trees and plants on our planet sequester carbon in the soil, absorbing it from the air and releasing oxygen in its place. Creating a solution for this problem is in direct contrast to traditional tilling of the land as a means to prepare the soil when growing crops. Recently dubbed regenerative agriculture, the concept is simple.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This year more than ever, food and agriculture sector issues were front of mind in the conversation, given companies even more opportunities and resources to take action. I came away with three main takeaways for companies in the food and agriculture sector: It’s time to act 2030 is fast approaching and a changing climate is already here.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

and United Arab Emirates governments, the AIM for Climate (Aim4C) coalition pledged to accelerate innovation in agriculture and food systems to support climate action. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Bosses of 12 agriculture and food businesses announce they will work together to push sustainable farming practices into the mainstream. The bosses of a dozen of world's largest food companies have created an action plan which aims to make regenerative farming approaches more accessible to farmers around the world.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 31, 2020

Plus, chit-chat about animal welfare expert Temple Grandin and GM's vision for a future ride-hailing service.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

In essence, LED grow lights epitomize the emblem of sustainability in modern agriculture and ecological defense. Precision agriculture, employing cutting-edge sensors and digital tools to real-time monitor crop vitality, soil moisture, etc., By leveraging this tech marvel, we chart the course for an eco-centric, lasting future.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

Soil is suddenly in fashion. Supermodel and environmental activist Arizona Muse has this morning officially launched a new charity dedicated to expanding the reach of biodynamic agricultural practices, a type of organic farming popular among grape growers, to new sectors and geographies. Dirt will help make soil sexy," she added.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2022

It is time for soil health to rise up the climate agenda, in particular at the companies whose products depend on it, argues Moët Hennessy's Sandrine Somers. Healthy soil is the common thread between agriculture, viticulture, and fighting climate change. As living ecosystems, soils support biodiversity.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JULY 26, 2021

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Land use change has been a major problem since the 20th century due to its contributions to biodiversity loss, as well as landscape fragmentation and degradation.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

Here, Danya Hakeem, our Director of Agriculture and Circular Economy Innovation, shares what drew her into her work, why Elemental is the right venue for the change she wants to see in the world, and what she’s excited to see flourish in 2020. You wear a couple different hats leading Elemental’s agriculture and circular economy work.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

The National Food Strategy also fails to address the threats to food security posed by biodiversity loss and climate change, despite these being identified as “the biggest medium to long term risk to the UK’s domestic production” in the UK Food Security Report 2021. Have we learned nothing?”.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

If you are an innovator interested in redesigning our food & agriculture systems and developing nature-based solutions with our Director of Innovation Mitch Rubin , learn more about our funding opportunities and apply today! What areas in food, agriculture, and nature-based solutions are ripe for innovation in 2022? of global GHGs.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Food and drink giant's roadmap includes major focus on scaling up regenerative agriculture across supply chains worldwide as it sets sights on net zero by 2050. The roadmap sketches a wide-ranging strategy for how the firm will adjust its operations and agricultural practices over the next decade to drive progress towards these goals.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Photo by Italo Melo from Pexels: [link] Poultry farming is an agricultural practice that involves the rearing of domesticated birds, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, primarily for meat or eggs. Mitigation of soil degradation. This not only reduces synthetic fertilizers’ necessity but also improves soil fertility.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

Fraction of budget spent on soils in England despite importance for combatting floods and boosting food security, Sustainable Soils Alliance warns. The Sustainable Soils Alliance (SSA) said it found just 0.41 The news comes amid growing concern about the health of soils both in the UK and worldwide. With an estimated 2.2

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Humanity’s destruction of biodiversity fosters the conditions for emerging diseases such as COVID-19. Meanwhile, humans have continued destructive practices such as deforestation and agricultural expansion. Agriculture as a climate change solution rather than a cause of climate change. Media Source. Shutterstock. Media Source.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees? According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. with regenerative agriculture criteria. with regenerative agriculture criteria.

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