5 years in, how does General Mills’ regenerative agriculture commitment measure up?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
General Mills aims to spur ‘systems change’ and advance regenerative agriculture on 1 million acres of land by 2030.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2024
General Mills aims to spur ‘systems change’ and advance regenerative agriculture on 1 million acres of land by 2030.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Regenerative agriculture can succeed when farmers see the economic value in it, they say.
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform warns that half the world's farmland is degraded and only a major transformation will ensure food security.
GreenBiz
MAY 11, 2023
The Environmental Defense Fund and the Intertribal Agriculture Council are working on a three-year study with Native American ranchers that will track costs, loan terms and soil carbon improvements.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Industry moves in regenerative agriculture plowed ahead, while changing diets and reducing waste lag behind.
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2023
The first quarter of 2023 was dominated with news of PepsiCo’s regenerative agriculture program and a rising focus on nutrition.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Electric tractors, agribots and regenerative agriculture. Without the benefit of their favorite search engine, I’m certain many readers would be hard-pressed to name the largest, pure-play agricultural equipment company in the world. Food & Agriculture. Heather Clancy. Thu, 12/17/2020 - 01:30. percent through 2025. Media Source.
GreenBiz
MAY 15, 2023
Congress rallies behind farmers as it comes together to expand precision agriculture via satellites.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture. Many practices are associated with regenerative agriculture — anything from no-till practices to pesticide-free farming. What is considered regenerative in one location might not qualify for the same label under other agricultural conditions. .
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
General Mills, Danone pilots provide proof for regenerative agriculture success. A few years into Danone’s and General Mills’ regenerative agriculture pilots, one thing has become clear: It’s about data collection. Holistically changing our agriculture system to become more sustainable comes later. . "We Jesse Klein.
GreenBiz
MAY 19, 2022
The World Benchmarking Alliance used its first Food and Agriculture Benchmark to measure impact of food and agriculture companies.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 11, 2024
One of the partners in the initiative, Nafici Environmental Research (NER), based in West Sussex, has created a process to transform agricultural waste into paper-making pulp with strengthening properties.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Investors need to shift their focus to agriculture and smart-farming to create the next tech boom and fight climate change.
GreenBiz
APRIL 18, 2022
The results are in from over 540,000-acre North American sustainable agriculture pilot programs - and the experts on the ground, from Nutrien Ag Solutions, have a message to share. Sustainable and productive agriculture requires whole-acre solutions and carbon markets play a role in the future of agriculture.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Regenerative agriculture can succeed when farmers see the economic value in it, they say.
GreenBiz
MAY 12, 2020
The robotic, hybrid-electric future of agriculture. A recent IDTechEx webcast, "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture: $50 Billion Market Soon,” provided a brief overview of a 215-page report , "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture 2020-2030,” that the research firm published in February. Food & Agriculture.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Reducing agricultural methane emissions is critical to meeting global climate targets. This is especially true for many food and agriculture companies who sell meat and dairy, as over one-third of U.S.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 6, 2023
As well as the ecological consequences, this poses serious threats for human wellbeing if the water is then used for drinking, recreational, or agricultural purposes. In the study, only one measurement –the abundance of the sensitive insect groups of mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisflies – was best predicted by agricultural land use.
GreenBiz
JULY 6, 2022
Regrow Agriculture has partnered up with some of the biggest food companies in the industry to bring immense monitoring capabilities to sustainable farmers.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
A huge rain storm doesn’t always mean immediate relief for agriculture that has been dealing with drought for years. It can also mean flooding, which only if captured can provide long-term relief.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Why agtech is critical for regenerative agriculture. million toward helping Nebraska farmers cultivate regenerative agriculture practices over the next five years. Food & Agriculture. Heather Clancy. Thu, 09/17/2020 - 01:30. We’re moving away from intuition-based decisions. Information Technology. Climate Tech. Featured Column.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 16, 2021
Regenerative agriculture has become a buzzword in the food sector, but two new verification schemes hope to turn buzz into results.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 15, 2023
Burning biochar has been a traditional agriculture practice used by humans since time immemorial. A new study attempts to synthesize global data from nearly 600 studies on biochar to analyze its potential as a climate-smart agricultural practice. Can we use these climate-smart practices for linking forest and agriculture?
The Environmental Blog
OCTOBER 19, 2022
When it comes to sustainable agriculture, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. In this article, we’ll take a look at the state of sustainable agriculture around the world. What is Sustainable Agriculture? Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept. The Benefits of Sustainable Agriculture.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 2, 2020
From high-tech indoor farms in France and Singapore to mobile apps connecting urban growers and eaters in India and the United States, here are more than a dozen initiatives using tech, entrepreneurship, and social innovation to change urban agriculture.
GreenBiz
JULY 19, 2023
Sponsored: EDF’s Victoria Mills interviews Chris Adamo of Danone North America to discuss the IRA's unprecedented investment in agriculture.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 7, 2024
million for regenerative agriculture in West Africa (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, March 7 — Argentinian entrepreneur Emiliano Mroue founded Ghana-based Warc over a decade ago. The social enterprise serves roughly 20,000 smallholder farmers. The post Warc raises $7.5
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
An agricultural bill in congress puts $5 billion into regenerative programs for farmers, $600 million into assessing soil benefits and many other investments.
EDF + Business
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Agricultural lenders play a crucial role in supporting farmers’ financial decisions, including implementing conservation practices. Loan officers face multiple challenges in supporting their borrowers’ investments in conservation agriculture, including having limited knowledge about the economics of conservation practices.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 22, 2022
However, the agriculture industry is one of the largest contributors to global greenhouse gases worldwide. Today, the global food system supports the livelihoods of 600 million farmers and employs almost one-third of the global workforce.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 19, 2023
It's the quarterly roundup of what the big food and agriculture players were up to at the end of 2022.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 11, 2023
In order to lighten the environmental impact of agriculture, we need to look at alternative ways to produce products. Cellular agriculture is a viable solution, but is it safe and is it a comparable replacement for products originally made from animal parts? The answer is yes to both.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Cargill’s Ryann Sirolli on how their 10 million acre initiative creates impact through agriculture. Agriculture is a means for us to achieve and make real impact in some of the world’s most pressing challenges around climate, water, feeding and clothing the world, and more.” . . This video is sponsored by Cargill. . .
GreenBiz
MARCH 23, 2023
The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognized standard for food. Should regenerative follow its course?
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2021
Vice president of global workplace programs at Google, Michiel Bakker outlines how the Regen1 will help farmers move to sustainable practices on 1 million acres of farmland in Northern California.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
A recent project blends leftover cooking oil, lamb fat and agricultural waste to develop a cleaner fuel for ships. The research illustrates how biomass pyrolysis technology has developed into a sustainable technique which can turn food and agricultural waste into bio-oil.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
As world governments moved to implement soil conservation practices, a new debate began: does agricultural soil erosion create a net organic carbon (OC) sink or source? The organic carbon cascade Early studies assumed that a substantial fraction of soil organic carbon that is mobilized on agricultural land is lost to the atmosphere.
GreenBiz
JULY 30, 2020
The future of organic coffee: Building a network of support for regenerative agriculture. We’re firm believers that authentic Kona coffee is organic and that shifting toward regenerative agriculture is vital. Part of our initiative to move toward regenerative agriculture is helping other local farmers obtain organic certification.
GreenBiz
APRIL 20, 2023
KIND is the latest to start pilots with almond producers to figure out how to keep the cash crop from becoming another drain on California's water supply.
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 25, 2022
Climate change and intensive agricultural land use have already been responsible for a 49% reduction in the number of insects in the most impacted parts of the world, according to a new study by UCL researchers. Tropical areas saw the biggest declines in insect biodiversity linked to land use and climate change.
U.S. Green Technology
MAY 31, 2022
ANALYSIS OF SOIL AND FIELD: Drones can be extremely useful at the beginning of the agricultural cycle. The post HOW DRONES ARE REVOLUTIONIZING AGRICULTURE TODAY? They create exact 3-D maps for early soil analysis and seed planting pattern planning. PLANTING: STARTUPS has developed drone-planting systems with a 75 percent uptake rate.
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.". There are many commercial drone companies, of course. Information Technology. Featured Column.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 3, 2019
What will it take to support sustainable agriculture in the United States? A new generation, for starters.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 19, 2023
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