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Op-Ed | India Must Redesign its Agriculture Based on Regenerative Farming

Food Tank

But intensive agricultural practices prevalent since the Green Revolution began in the 1960s in India suppressed many ecosystem services and threatens India’s food, ecological, and nutritional security. Soil organic carbon in arable land in India has been reduced from 2.4 percent in 1947 to 0.4 percent, well below the 1.5

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The value of well-managed grazing on Scotland’s grasslands

Sustainable Food Trust

The goats, and to some extent the cows, have been replaced by sheep in recent times, a shift that speaks to the widespread social, cultural and ecological degradation that has occurred thanks to more than two centuries of Highland Clearances , followed by agricultural intensification.

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Transforming the Baltic and North Seas with Algae-Based Solutions

Food Tank

With support from the European Union (EU) , AlgaeProBANOS is working to bring algae, ecology, and business experts together through the coordination of the SUBMARINER Network. They also don’t require arable land or freshwater; they grow in abundance on land and by sea.

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