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.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 15, 2024

We’re creating this fertilizer that you can use on your houseplants and in your garden, and they can see firsthand how they’re making a difference,” says Elisabeth Davidson, executive director of Soil Cycle. Methane is a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. And how is it being distributed?”

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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. The fertilizer produced by the co-digester is stored in the tank behind it. By benefiting socially, Davis means odor control: co-digesters produce an odorless organic fertilizer. Photo by Meg Wilcox.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a study published in the Journal of Cleaner Production and Beverages , the production of alcoholic beverages can contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and water depletion. The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure.

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Agwired

APRIL 10, 2024

Department of Agriculture published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners with the methods and tools needed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of their operations.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Regenerative ocean farming is a method of agriculture that grows plants using ocean water and no added fertilizer. Overall, GreenWave aims to shape a connected group of farmers worldwide so they can distribute information and forge connections between producers, buyers, and sellers. Credit: Seawater Greenhouse.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. With organic, Walmart could push farms to get bigger, driving costs down and enabling national distribution.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Wild Weather Threatens Farm Viability Although the IRA funds are directed at greenhouse gas mitigation, many forms of agricultural climate mitigation also increase farm resilience. Such practices can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions, in part by reducing the need to apply synthetic fertilizers.

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CalCAN

JUNE 28, 2023

Another challenge of these large budget swings is having the administrative systems and staff in place to distribute the funds. Organic systems are shown to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and store carbon while also eliminating the use of fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Processing and distributing these energy products release additional greenhouse gases, as well as when we create electricity, cook our food, or while we’re standing still idling in traffic on a highway or downtown in any metropolitan area. There is fossil carbon in the form of natural gas (methane), oil and coal.

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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.

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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. Those are nitrogen-rich plants, and nobody’s applying fertilizer,” he says.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

There will be enormous destruction of value for those involved in rearing animals and processing them, and for all the industries that support and supply the sector (fertilizers, machinery, veterinary services, and more). We will move from a centralized system dependent on scarce resources to a distributed system based on abundant resources.

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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).

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Theyre as fertile as can be. The history of how this happenedhow one of the countrys most fertile farming regions became a knot of poverty, hunger, and racial injusticeis complicated and painful. They till less, plant cover crops after harvest, and have drastically cut their use of fertilizer and insecticides.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 27, 2024

By some estimates, meat production accounts for nearly 60 percent of the greenhouse gasses generated by the food system, with beef as the leading culprit. Hamilton doesn’t fertilize her pastures, and she rarely uses hay, as most ranchers do to supplement their cows’ fescue diet. She also tells them that native conversion pencils out.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

On the other hand, the chapter’s assessment of alternative plant proteins is more measured, noting their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also identifying the clear downsides in terms of increased needs for infrastructure and energy. Restoration and adaptation actions include the work of Tribes.

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OECD: Environment

MAY 30, 2023

by Sho Yamasaki, OECD Environment Directorate Israel is one of the world’s most arid countries, but its small open economy is fertile ground for tech-driven innovation. 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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Agriculture (USDA) program, this amalgam of farming methods aims to keep the American agricultural juggernaut steaming ahead while slashing the sector’s immense greenhouse gas footprint. Others say science has yet to prove that climate-smart practices truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “We It’s a greenwashing scheme.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That trend prompted some Iowans to look at stores and resources closer to home—to local growers, local meat lockers, local dairies and even local greenhouses. Bushel Boy has a Mason City operation with 17 acres of greenhouses growing different kinds of tomatoes. The upshot has been a boost to local economies.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

In contrast, agtech has fewer corporate buyers, hard-to-reach distributed customers, all of them growing commodified food at low value per acre and hardly anything going public, and those that do, regretting it. The lesson for agtech is to target only the truly massive addressable markets to offset these downside issues.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

From raw ingredient screening to lab, greenhouse, and field testing, Yara’s focus on quality ensures that YaraAmplix consistently meets the highest standards. One of the first featured products that Yara is bringing to customers is YaraAmplix PROCOTE OPTIMIZE , which leverages Yara’s revolutionary coating technology.

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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. In the U.S., about 35 percent of food is thrown out before it’s eaten.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 1, 2024

Fashion contributes around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, second only to big oil. In addition, most natural fibers are grown conventionally, which often means heavy use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified or treated seeds. Another big factor is end of life.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 7, 2022

New research suggests that cover crops may struggle to make a significant dent in agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. This can happen when farmers apply too much fertilizer — or when nitrogen enters the soil from decaying plant matter, including cover crops. But as the hype for cover crops mounts, so does the scrutiny.

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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.

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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.

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AGRIVI

JUNE 7, 2023

This includes aspects such as resource usage, waste management, greenhouse gas emissions, labor conditions, and supply chain transparency. The increased transparency enables a deeper understanding of the agri-food value chain, including the processes involved in food production, processing, and distribution.

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 8, 2024

billion Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities grant program hopes to convince farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that will reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon in the ground. Share Tweet This Story’s Impact 44m weekly audience across platforms NPR The Biden administration’s $3.1 Photo by Amy Mayer.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One of the core functions of the USDA, upon its foundation in 1862, was the collection and public distribution of germplasm , or seeds. By the end of the 19th century, a third of USDA’s budget was devoted to germplasm collection and distribution. The shift toward commercialization of seed began in earnest.

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Civil Eats

JULY 12, 2023

Yesterday, the agency took a big step toward refining its definition of that term by announcing a major initiative intended to improve the data it uses to guide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and make farms more resilient to climate change. As part of that program, the USDA began distributing $3.1

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Institute aims to advance sustainable and nutritious food production systems, improve food distribution and access, and contributes to policy discussions. The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Purchasing cooperatives allow members to buy inputs, such as seeds and fertilizers, at lower prices through bulk purchasing agreements. In many regions, cooperatives also play a key role in ensuring food security by supporting local agricultural production and distribution networks. Buy local when possible.)

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 10, 2024

But those farms had used sewage sludge to fertilize their pastures—something Dostie had never done. Of her 150 acres, only about 25 are safe for agricultural use, forcing Hunter to resort to raised garden beds in a greenhouse, filled with soil shipped in from another site. Maine could finally force Washington to take action.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

While there are a handful of proposals that NSAC is pleased to see included, an extended series of misguided provisions in the FFNSA would only perpetuate the inequitable distribution of resources in U.S. For instance, the Trump Administration distributed $28 billion to commodity producers disrupted by its trade war with China.

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