GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2023

Congress rallies behind farmers as it comes together to expand precision agriculture via satellites.

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Agriculture 370

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.

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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.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Industry moves in regenerative agriculture plowed ahead, while changing diets and reducing waste lag behind.

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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.

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Agriculture 448

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.

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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.

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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.

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Agriculture Climate change 448

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Regenerative agriculture can succeed when farmers see the economic value in it, they say.

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Agriculture 195

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2022

The World Benchmarking Alliance used its first Food and Agriculture Benchmark to measure impact of food and agriculture companies.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Agriculture 397

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.

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Agriculture 321

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.

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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.

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Agriculture 228

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.

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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.

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Agriculture 180

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

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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.

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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. . .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Agriculture Sustainability 533

Planet Pulse

APRIL 2, 2024

Crop biomass in agricultural fields is highly dynamic and changes throughout the growing season as plants grow, encounter stressors, and approach harvest. Indices derived from remotely sensed data have been a critical component for precision agriculture for many years.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 8, 2024

In this report, Environmental Defense Fund, along with experts at Deloitte, have provided example pathways for six key commodities aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG) guidance for food companies to more strategically work toward these ambitious climate targets.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Many plant-based activists claim that leaders at COP26 aren’t paying enough attention to methane emissions from agriculture. They say that a global change in diet toward veganism could help slow climate change.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognized standard for food. Should regenerative follow its course?

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