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. According to figures from trade body UK Fava, around 740,000 tonnes of the beans are harvested in the UK each year from around 170,00 hectares of lands.

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Soil South America Sustainability Retail 28

Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. If there’s less demand for beef, for instance, prices for cattle will fall, and ranchers won’t reap rewards for carving new pastures out of the wilderness.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Asia 141

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 94

Planet Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, the impact of drought is especially painful for agriculture in low-income and less-developed countries, where more than 34% of all agricultural losses can be traced to drought. The map presents dryer regions in yellow, while wetter areas are depicted in green.

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Soil Africa Agriculture South America 98

R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first is that the vast majority of the world’s lithium resource is in South America — primarily in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. It isn’t out of the question that an analog to The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could emerge. As the U.S. OLEC, if you will. foreign policy for decades. Thus, the U.S.

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Lithium South America Recycling Recycling 60