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Op-Ed | The Most Sustainable Fish You Probably Never Knew Existed

Food Tank

They feature a full processing plant while housing and feeding up to 130 people each. Since we process everything onboard immediately after catch, we maximize product quality while avoiding the need for extra processing or shipping. Who’s going to click on this nothing-burger of a story? Sustainable seafood is cool.

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Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?

Civil Eats

In China, for example, research shows that plastic field covers keep the soil warm and wet in a way that boosts productivity considerably; an additional 15,000 square miles of arable land—an area about the size of Switzerland—would be required to produce the same amount of food. percent of global emissions.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

This is the result of rapid advances in precision biology that have allowed us to make huge strides in precision fermentation, a process that allows us to program microorganisms to produce almost any complex organic molecule. greenhouse gas emissions could be fully offset by 2035. We estimate this will total more than $100bn.

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Exemplary Approaches to Hybridizing Agriculture

Agritecture Blog

Greenhouses and vertical farms, widely known as trusted methods of year-round agricultural production, seem to be context-agnostic solutions to agri-food supply chain disruptions, desertification, and other climate change-related problems. However, they have very significant capital costs.

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NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.

Civil Eats

sends too much domestically caught seafood out of the country for cheap processing and then re-imports it for consumption. This process, also known as re-shipment, has been called “ the great American fish swap ” because it creates a confusing web of exports and imports that do nothing to improve food security. “If