World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 29, 2025

Challenges like data quality and digital literacy remain, but tailored AI product design and on-the-ground capacity-building overcome these barriers. Beyond advisory models, AI supports product development in line with climate and market challenges. Jason Bull shares this sentiment.

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Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, they still represent a very significant source of nutrition – a service I don’t think we should ever take for granted, especially with all the climate-related threats to crop production and food security that are coming our way. Neither should we forget the wider social value of Scotland’s grasslands.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

They are supporting eight algae-based products in the Baltic and North Seas (BANOS). The project is exploring the creation and marketing of various products made from algae. They also don’t require arable land or freshwater; they grow in abundance on land and by sea.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

These synthetic polymer products have often been used to help boost yields up to 60 percent and make water and pesticide use more efficient. But plasticulture, or the use of plastic products in agriculture, also comes with a wide range of known problems. Simply put, “there are no magic solutions,” says Demokritou.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

I could triple [production] and still be able to operate it from my home,” says DiLillo. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo. Because the sellers wanted to keep the land productive, Mau thinks it made their offer attractive.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. This means that by 2030, modern food products will be higher quality and cost less than half as much to produce as the animal-derived products they replace.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 26, 2023

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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World Agri-Tech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In a recent survey of top producers in the United States, 63% of respondents said they would enroll in a carbon program if a product like Rootella unlocks additional revenue and fits easily into existing farming practices.

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Sustainable Food Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I explained how I believed that shepherding could only be sustainable, self-financing and profitable if wool was restored as an integral part of the product as a whole, and that this could only happen with the significant development of internal markets. In Britain, most of the commons were lost to the Enclosures Act.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 12, 2024

With a population of almost half a million, the region is known for its arable land and stunning vistas – the “Tuscany of America,” according to local rancher Bronte Edwards. Livestock, poultry and animal products brought in approximately $140 million. Sonoma County is the heart of California wine country. The average U.S.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Of that lost land, 4.4 million acres were considered “nationally significant,” meaning it was some of America’s best land for food and crop production. Supply of arable land per capita has declined by 0.5 Preserve American Farmland America lost 25 percent of its farmland since 1950 due to urbanization.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farming and food production are central to UK society. Deterioration of the natural environment could slow economic growth and result in UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 6% by the 2030s. Because of this lack of confidence, all farming sectors are expecting to decrease production over the next year.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

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. In 2015, the country was hit with a drought that resulted in a 34% reduction in hops production.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A recent report by McKinsey revealed that while Africa has large amounts of untapped agricultural land that could be used to increase production, much of this land is in unreachable areas. The lack of infrastructure, conflict zones, forest cover, and large conservation areas has made lots of arable lands inaccessible.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To ensure its aquifers remain sustainable amid an uncertain climate future, the Rio Grande Water Conservation District must permanently withdraw up to 60,000 acres of land from irrigation, about 10 percent of the valley’s arable land.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

Learning how food is produced is a significant step, but it’s not easy: “Opacity insulates consumers from the worst practices of food production,” the authors write. He ably bridges those perspectives here, exploring “the realities of production agriculture within the context of living in rural America.”

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

The goal to increase farmed seafood production in America dates back to the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 when the U.S. falling behind in fish production, ranking a mere 17th for aquaculture worldwide. Some producers have switched to land-based protein sources, such as soymeal and soy oil. So why, then, is the U.S.

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