Cropaia

MAY 25, 2024

Sustainability Benefits Biochar contributes to environmental sustainability in several key ways, and is a key component of regenerative agriculture: Carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions reduction Biochar is highly effective at sequestering carbon due to its stable nature.

Compost 60

Compost Fertilizer Crop Yield Nutrient Pollution 60

Civil Eats

MARCH 11, 2024

This relationship becomes especially interesting when business is booming—when the plants are delivering a lot of carbon into the soil that is used to build larger and larger fungal networks while distributing carbon across the soil profile. He mostly grows salad greens across 3 acres of farmland.

Farming 131

Farming Farming Crop Agriculture 131

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Invisible’ Waste: For Restaurants, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning Cooking, refrigeration, air conditioning, water use, and packaging contribute to greenhouse gas emissions too. ZFP then distributes those funds, via grants, to farmers for regenerative farming projects. “As These restaurants try to tackle them all.

Farming 93

Farming Farming Food Compost 93

Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. Kintra Fibers has developed a bio-based polyester (56 percent corn-derived) it says greatly reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional polyester and can be produced with the same equipment. Another big factor is end of life.

Textiles 98

Textiles Manufacturing Production Processing 98

Modern Farmer

MARCH 20, 2024

The choice to compare greenhouse gas intensity of soil-based urban agriculture systems with conventional farming systems brings up an inherently unfair comparison.

Agroecology 84

Agroecology Yield Food Farming 84

Civil Eats

AUGUST 28, 2023

Methane gas digesters are used by dairy farms to convert manure into energy and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. That figure includes food losses during farming, processing, distribution, retail operations, and consumption (e.g., Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are sometimes mixed with food waste at compost facilities.

Manure 59

Manure Food Compost Fertilizer 59

OECD: Environment

MAY 30, 2023

Both total and per capita greenhouse (GHG) emissions have decoupled slowly from GDP growth, mostly due to the rapid replacement of coal by natural gas in the energy mix. Optimising water distribution from various sources has been a success. Breakdown data for recycling and composting are available from 2013.

Technology 52

Technology Forestry Construction Compost 52

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Patrick Brown, who was named North Carolinas Small Farmer of the Year by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University this year, grows almost 200 acres of industrial hemp for both oil and fiber, and 11 acres and several greenhouses of vegetablesbeets, kale, radishes, peppers, okra, and bok choy. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Plantation 113

Plantation Farming Farming Acre 113

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 6, 2024

Dumping food in landfills releases methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Dumping food in landfills releases methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. Since then — pandemic disruptions aside — Lovin has gradually ramped up composting; this year it has composted around 5,000 pounds of food.

Food 71

Food Compost Greenhouse Distribution 71

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Even before that food gets to the dump, its production—involving fossil fuel–based fertilizers and pesticides, nitrous oxide released in fields, and energy use— results in annual greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to that of 42 coal-fired power plants.

Food 97

Food Compost Pesticide Greenhouse 97

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 7, 2024

They are using composting systems and anaerobic digesters to turn waste into fertilizer for the next planting. First, there needs to be a cultural shift on the farm — away from treating food distribution as a commodities market that often leads to trimming input costs through much cheaper means than new technologies.

Technology 79

Technology Food Farming Farming 79

Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing.

Food 130

Food Farming Farming Seeding 130

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

They help farmers and ranchers keep drinking water clean for our urban and rural communities, build soil resilience and limit the impacts of severe drought and flooding, provide healthy habitats for wildlife, mitigate agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and support farm operations that are productive and sustainable long-term.

Ruralism 111

Ruralism Food Farming Farming 111

Sustainable Food Trust

MAY 1, 2024

Before 7 th October 2023 , farms and orchards covered almost half of Gaza’s total land area and more than 7,500 greenhouses contributed to an agricultural sector normally worth over $575m a year. A third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been destroyed. Since October, 40% of Gaza’s total farmland has been destroyed by bombs and bulldozers.

Farming 127

Farming Farming Livestock Food 127