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Monetizing Sustainability: The business case for carbon sequestration

Cropaia

Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost. It can improve soil health and fertility, leading to healthier and more productive crops, and can also increase crop yields.

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These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps. Does That Make Them Better?

Civil Eats

The approach allows them to lower their carbon footprints, earn extra revenue, and tap into methane digesters’ other benefits, which include the creation of organic fertilizers, also called “digestates,” for use on the farm. The fertilizer produced by the co-digester is stored in the tank behind it. and we see increased crop yields.

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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

Better municipal composting programs could also provide urban farmers with mulch so they don’t have to rely on synthetic fertilizers, which are terrible for the environment. Wheat production, for example, is highly mechanized and relies on massive harvesting vehicles.