Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Supermarket claims fava beans could help promote healthy soils and cut emissions by locking in soil carbon and replacing some of the soy used in animal feed. It really could be a miracle crop in terms of improving sustainability across our food system".

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Soil South America Sustainability Retail 28

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 91

Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Compared to 2012, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is predicting a massive increase in agricultural demand of 50 per cent by 2050. In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. So what can we do?

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Climate change Agriculture South America Soil 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Global warming Climate change Resilience South America 101