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Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Agriculture has just not been at the table in a meaningful way,” says Thomas. For all of industrial farming’s success at feeding people and livestock and producing biofuel, the sector is also a major polluter, accounting for roughly 10 percent of U.S. But it should be. The main greenhouse gases emitted by U.S.

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A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Ocho Sur’s links to deforestation have profound implications for businesses, consumers, and the environment and what exactly counts as “sustainability” in the palm oil industry. Last year, the European Union passed new regulations on deforestation that promised to be the strictest in the world.