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Op-Ed | A Missing Investment Strategy: Climate Resilience Hides in Local Food Markets

Food Tank

Specialty crop export and global food trade are still only a minor part of the worlds food story. Local manufacturing of bio-inputs including fertilizers, bio- pesticides, and inoculants is booming. Finance can be inclusive and accessible. Smallholder agroecological farmers are not being supported at any level of finance.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Their app, called Plantix, could near-instantaneously diagnose a crop pest or disease simply by looking at a photo of the plant. If successful, Strey says a little sheepishly in the clip, Plantix would “save the environment by using less pesticides.” A farmer uses the Plantix app to diagnose crop pests and disease.

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Ag Efficiency: Focus on the 20%

ATTRA

Farmers deal with a complex web of processes in diverse areas that may be under their purvue, including crops, livestock, finance, recordkeeping, harvesting, marketing, etc. If we strategically focus on improving processes in the highest two categories, we could potentially reduce the causes of low crop yield by 72% on this farm.

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Environmental Protection Agency Revokes Chlorpyrifos Zero-Tolerance Policy 

Trimble Agriculture

Farmers have been using chlorpyrifos (more commonly known as the former product Lorsban®) to protect their crops from pests since 1965. But in 2021, the EPA issued a ruling that effectively banned the pesticide from use. 2015 : EPA proposes a ban for chlorpyrifos use on food crops in response to the 2007 petition.

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Do You Control Your Business or Does it Control YOU?

UnderstandingAg

I had to admit, although I was managing the finances, the milking herd, and the crops, it probably wasnt me or anyone else in the family. We see that in the worsening of herbicide resistance in weeds and increased need for pesticides that never actually solve pest problems.

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AGRIVI Sets the Standard for ESG Monitoring and Reporting in Agriculture

AGRIVI

The platform allows companies to closely monitor and analyze key metrics such as machinery and fuel usage, mineral fertilizers usage, pesticides and crop protection usage, and irrigation and water usage which are instrumental in the calculation of their scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Over time, the consolidation and commodification of seeds has eroded the resilience of our food systems, diminishing the agrobiodiversity of crops cultivated in the US at an alarming rate. The History of US Seed Breeding For most of the history of domesticated crops, those who grew crops saved seeds from one growing season to the next.

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