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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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Big Agriculture Casts Itself as Climate Champion Ahead of COP27

DeSmogBlog

When the voice of African farmers and communities is not brought to the negotiating table, we end up with flawed initiatives like Aim4C,” said Anne Maina, from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. “A Participants must put forward funding and a proposal, and Aim4C organizers then choose successful sprints to champion to 2025.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

The production of genetically-modified foods can be controversial, but it can also offer benefits for increasing yields and easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. Such crops became known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Issues surrounding genetically modified foods can be controversial. It's not clear.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Prithivi Chellamuthu currently works as Senior Scientist – Curative, a biotech/healthcare startup involved in improving healthcare access to the community. Alexandra (Aly) Criscuolo, a GreenBiz 30 Under 30 recipient, is determined to make sports and organizations more sustainable. Prithivi Chellamuthu. (He/Him/His)

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . LinkedIn | Twitter. The potential is not chicken feed: the U.S.