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U.N. Report Calls for Climate Tech for Food System Resilience

Food Tank

These communities are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, despite contributing the least to global greenhouse gas emissions. The UNFCCC hopes that climate technologies can address these challenges by improving agricultural productivity, promoting resilience to climate impacts, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Op-Ed | Nourishing Food Systems for People and the Planet through Agroecology

Food Tank

These systems are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, with extreme weather events, reducing crop yields, raising food prices and weakening communities resilience. Some habits such as eating ultra-processed foods and beverages (UPFs) or long-distance transport of vegetables, are common but have big consequences.

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Meet the Poultry Farmer Teaching Others How to Make Regenerative Farming Add Up

Modern Farmer

His first batch of livestock included 25 chickens he processed for his family. I loved the process of moving the tractor, getting them food and water and raising them,” he says. He took his products to farmers markets and found if he processed birds and sold legs, wings and breasts separately, people were more likely to buy them.

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Biofertilizers in Agriculture: Promoting Soil Sustainability and Plant Growth

Cropaia

Inside these nodules, Rhizobium bacteria convert atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into ammonia (NH3) through a process called nitrogen fixation. Sulfate is a form of sulfur that plants can readily absorb and utilize for various metabolic processes. This process ensures a continuous supply of nutrients to plants throughout the growing season.

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Whose Farm Is More Sustainable? Calculating Farm Sustainability.

DTN

To help explain the complex calculations behind measuring a farm or field’s carbon footprint, we’ve summarized some of these tools and processes below. A third party verifies all these processes to ensure reporting meets GHG Protocol, SEC, SBTi, the Gold Standard, and Verra requirements and that the data can be trusted and relied upon.

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To Create Lasting, Collaborative Food System Solutions, We Need to Learn By Listening

Food Tank

Rather than simply imposing a solution, she collaborated directly with farmers and cover-crop councils and held interactive sessions with these groups to design interventions. It was a long process, but ultimately, a more effective and inclusive process.

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CoteX Tech Partners with Nutrien to Enhance Nitrogen Fertilizer Sustainability

World Agri-Tech

Their biodegradable coating allows fertilizer to be slowly released into the soil over time, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and eliminating potential residual material. Over 110 million tonnes of nitrogen fertilizer is applied to crops worldwide every year.