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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

Apart from industry-led changes, external factors such as consumer demand for ethically sourced products and government regulations promoting sustainable farming practices also push the sector toward being more eco-friendly. Mitigation of soil degradation. Preservation of natural resources.

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Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now

GreenBiz

soy, wheat, and corn farmers use cover crops, and only 25 percent have adopted crop rotation and conservation tillage practices, even though the country is losing more than 10 billion tons of soil each year as well as more than $50 billion in social and environmental benefits. Biodiversity. Corporate Strategy. Food & Agriculture.

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RSPB expands Fair to Nature certification scheme

Business Green

cation scheme has this week been relaunched and expanded in a bid to accelerate the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices that can help tackle the enormous loss of UK biodiversity. Ethical consumerism is on the rise, especially when it comes to food," Varney said.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. "And So that's my aspiration."

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Waitrose to ban sales of peat compost from 2022

Business Green

Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership, stressed that peat bogs were critical carbon stores that would help tackle the climate crisis. "If Restoring peatland is vital to tackling climate change and boosting biodiversity.

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Investment round opens for plantation of new species of CO2-cutting trees

Business Green

Ethical crowdfunding platform Abundance has opened up an investment round for Carbon Plantations, a business that is aiming to develop plantations of fast-growing broadleaf trees which can absorb carbon dioxide up to seven times faster than newly planted native woodland. Carbon Plantations is aiming to raise up to £4.7m

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Forget me not: The importance of COP15

Business Green

The RSPB's Mark Varney sets out why the outcome of the upcoming biodiversity talks in Montreal matters for anyone with a stake in the UK food system. Next month, COP15 on biodiversity will take place in Montreal, seeking to implement the protocols of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. But why does biodiversity matter?