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

Food Tank

Over six decades, intensive agricultural practices in India have reduced natural capital , including the stock of all-natural assets (land, air, water and biodiversity), from which ecosystem services flow. Ecosystem services are the benefits provided by nature and managed by farmers on their farmland. percent in 1947 to 0.4

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Southern Black Farmers Sow Rice and Reconciliation

Civil Eats

Thats because so much rice is grown around the world: Roughly 11 percent of all arable land is devoted to this crop, a daily staple for half the people on Earth. Lotus Foods primarily works with farmers overseas, but teamed up with Mason to work on bringing Jubilee Justice rice to market. percent today.

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Using Farm Property Loans to Expand Your Agribusiness 

Trimble Agriculture

Buying farmland is like investing in gold—and farm property loans can help you do it. People sometimes refer to farmland as an investment in gold, plus a coupon,” says Bruce Sherrick, professor at the University of Illinois. Land Value – Historically increasing year-over-year. farmland values? Of that lost land, 4.4

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

Modern foods have already started disrupting the ground meat market, but once cost parity is reached, we believe in 2021-23, adoption will tip and accelerate exponentially. In some markets, only a small percentage of the ingredients need to be replaced for an entire product to be disrupted. Before we reach this point, the U.S.

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