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The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

Modern Farmer

It may seem quaint compared to the industrial operations that grow most of the world’s food, but outfits like Patryn’s Nautical Farms are poised to skyrocket in number over the next few years. Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process. supply of edible seaweed.

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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

billion to hundreds of agriculture organizations, corporations, universities, and nonprofits for climate-smart projects. Agriculture has just not been at the table in a meaningful way,” says Thomas. Here, manure is put into a digester to be turned into biofuel at Vanguard Renewables in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on Jan.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.