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The Brief: Family businesses in East Africa, pad splitting, vertical farming in Finland, seafood tracing in India, crowdfunding through COVID

Impact Alpha

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original With ‘mezzanine capital,’ iungo capital seeks to fill a gap for East Africa’s small and growing family businesses. Longstanding financing challenges for small and growing businesses in Africa have only been exacerbated by the COVID.

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Norway Farmed Salmon Industry Accused of “Food Colonialism” in New Report

DeSmogBlog

Producers in Norway, the world’s top supplier of farmed salmon, are pushing up to four million people in West Africa into food insecurity and depriving them of critical nutrients, according to a new report. percent of seafood produced by the global aquaculture industry.

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Caught out? UK supermarkets accused of 'turning blind eye' to unsustainable fish feed

Business Green

The UK's leading supermarkets are being accused of "turning a blind eye" to environmentally destructive fishing practices linked to the farmed seafood they sell, after a study found consumers may be unknowingly and indirectly eating hundreds of thousands of tonnes of wild fish. times more fish than they realised.

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A closed loop fashion system requires scaling solutions now, not later

GreenBiz

We still have polyester that's ending up in microfibers, which are ending up in the ocean, in our seafood dinner," Rattner said. New Africa. Plus, there's the waste that's harder to see than the piles of fabric in a landfill. "We We're eating about a credit card worth of plastic every year.". Circularity 20. Textile Waste.

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DeSmog Launches Industrial Aquaculture Project

DeSmogBlog

At least the seafood farming (or ‘aquaculture’) industry would have you see it that way. They are harvested by the tonne off the coast of West Africa and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil that’s exported to Europe and Asia. Right now the market for farmed fish like salmon is booming.

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How Fishmeal Factories Put Food Out of Reach for Communities in The Gambia

DeSmogBlog

This report exposes in shocking detail the damage inflicted by the extraction of fish from West Africa, driven by demand from major aquaculture and agriculture corporations around the world,” said Yves Reichling from sustainable food campaign group Feedback EU. “We In all three countries, fisheries regulations are historically under enforced.

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Meet the founder: Marica Quarsingh of Sea-Stematic on creating the ‘Tesla of Seafood’

AFN Sustainable Protein

Marica Quarsingh calls her startup Sea-Stematic the “Tesla of seafood” to communicate how she believes seafood should be produced: sustainably and with the right global benchmarks and market insights. Quarsingh talked to AFN about her goal and journey to putting Africa on the map for cellular seafood.

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