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GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program

World Agri-Tech

Groundwork BioAg’s unique and proprietary manufacturing process was the first to solve challenges inherent in high-volume, supremely concentrated mycorrhizal inoculant production. We will not rest until every hectare of arable land is protected by mycorrhizae and every farmer benefits from higher crop yields while preserving our soils.

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Challenges and Innovations Driving the CEA Sector in GCC and MENA

Agritecture Blog

Credit: World Resources Institute According to Strategy and PWC , GCC countries import about 85% of their food and approximately 56% of vegetables, largely due to the highly limited arable land in the region, averaging 4.25%. As stated by Ryan M. Lefers, Mark Tester and Kyle J. The Capsule by Ivvest. Credit: Ivvest.

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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.

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Exemplary Approaches to Hybridizing Agriculture

Agritecture Blog

So, while these solutions may make sense for some countries with more efficient technology, more developed markets, and low arable land, in other countries they would not. Instead, it might make more sense to grow outdoors or in other mixed methods in these places.

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Our Summer 2024 Food and Farming Book Guide

Civil Eats

But despite the technology ’ s promise to deliver food security and abundance, our seemingly insatiable appetite for manufactured cold comes at a shiver-inducing price, she discovers, with profound impacts on our health, socioeconomic and geopolitical landscape, and climate change.

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