NASDA

JUNE 9, 2023

Further reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the agricultural and forestry supply chain will require a comprehensive effort involving financial and technical assistance, research investments, proactive response to innovation, public-private partnerships, and a commitment to equitable opportunities for all producers. We urge the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Current food systems are responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions and for nearly 80 percent of biodiversity loss. By creating mechanisms that connect farmers, seed providers, trainers, financers, innovators, retailers and other players in the food sector across the world, COP28 can build the momentum for agroecology.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

According to the organization, just 3 percent of climate finance goes toward food systems even though the sector contributes to roughly one third of greenhouse gas emissions globally. There’s a huge funding gap,” Lappé says.

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OECD: Environment

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Our top 5 blogs discuss a range of issues from financing water to the evolution of climate policies, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, the affect of climate change on careers, and building resilience to droughts. Find out what our readers enjoyed the most in 2023. Our

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2023

To guide this transformation and help the food and agriculture sector reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, the FAO is producing a new roadmap , to be released in three parts. The plan to develop the roadmap was announced at last year’s COP in Egypt, following an open letter from the investment community.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The two that we hear most often are: (1) Deciding on the right equipment suppliers from so many options; and (2) Accessing relevant financing options. Currently, the APN comprises 16 equipment providers and 4 financing providers. Third-party validation of the system or underlying technology is also factored in. Credit: iFarm.

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Agwired

MAY 22, 2024

The six-week virtual program is hosted and coordinated by America’s Cultivation Corridor , providing participants a unique experience featuring mentorship, interaction with Iowa’s agricultural leaders and an online curriculum that included regulatory and financing systems, and customer perspectives.

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World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. and internationally. What is driving your commercialization strategy? Science first.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 12, 2023

But they receive less than 2% of global climate financing. Teague added that 95% of the world’s farms are small-scale, but they only receive 2% of climate financing. And they’re doing all this now without access to significant external financing.” And we need them to keep doing this good work,” she said.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Program focus areas range from clean energy to green finance to methane reduction. Their consulting platform is working to support low-carbon infrastructure and practices in the biggest manufacturing nation in the world , according to data from the U.N. Statistics Division.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Yet, at present, if you farm in ways that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase biodiversity and deliver a range of social benefits, you are likely to make less money than if you farm extractively.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Conversations on the controlled environment agriculture space usually lead to comparisons between vertical farms (VFs) and greenhouses (GHs). Our analysis reveals that vertical farm operators are indeed outdueling greenhouse operators, but not by much – $3.3 Credit: Greenhouse Grower. billion (55%) to $2.3 billion (55%) to $2.3

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

It plans to do this by public and private means with the Agricultural Transition Plan 2021 to 2024 which contains schemes incentivising and helping farmers to adopt nature-friendly farming practices, and a Green Finance Strategy to encourage more private investment.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Associate professor of Horticulture, Neil Mattson, teaches a student in one of Cornell’s on-campus greenhouses. Credit: Greenhouse Product News. A student applies skills learned in a campus greenhouse at Stockton University. Credit: Cornell Chronicle. With the global population expected to reach 9.7 Credit: Stockton University.

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AGRIVI

JULY 21, 2023

It compiles data on key performance indicators , including yield analysis , crop analysis, field analysis, farm finance KPIs, input usage , harvest reports , water usage , and pesticide application. The Analytics & Dashboard stack allows companies to gain daily insights into their agricultural operations.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 31, 2024

By using regenerative practices to draw carbon down from the atmosphere and back into the soil, some estimates suggest we could sequester more than half of total annual greenhouse gas emissions globally. An investment in sustainable agriculture is also an investment in combatting climate change.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Inside the Archi’s Acres greenhouse. Over six weeks, the curriculum covers the full seed-to-market process including access to financing, food safety and building a business plan around a farming operation. Still, students see their service background as an apt segue to farming.

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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. At the same time, they decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Their focus on greenhouse gas mitigation leaves ample room for building on-farm resilience.

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Agritecture Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

This is precisely the challenge Wageningen University & Research (WUR) laid out for participants of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge. Winners of the third Urban Greenhouse Challenge, LettUs Design. Learn more about the winning Urban Greenhouse Challenge design ! Visual representation of LettUs Design’s concept.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 1, 2024

And even now, a lot of his income comes from Transfarmation itself—the program is leasing part of his farm from him and spending about $200,000 to convert one of his old chicken barns into a demonstration greenhouse. But here’s the difference: If this doesn’t work out, I can walk away. I’m not going to lose anything.”

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Incentives to derisk the transition to more sustainable production practices such as carbon credits , ecosystem service credits , and creative financing solutions may play a crucial role in facilitating the transition. The conventional meat industry is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Trimble Agriculture

AUGUST 16, 2023

Just like equipment leasing , infrastructure leasing allows farmers to lease facilities such as barns, silos, storage sheds, greenhouses, and other structures used in the farming process. What is farm infrastructure leasing?

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Vertical Farms & Greenhouses) Most of us tend to overlook failed businesses, only studying successful businesses to crack the code on what made them successful. We believe that we have nothing to learn from the mistakes of failed businesses when, in truth, there’s a lot of knowledge hidden here.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

They work on farms, in fields and greenhouses, around livestock, with plants, soil and water. Their primary function is to manage the finances, make sure all equipment is working properly, hire and fire employees and oversee marketing and sales. Farmers are the people who grow crops and raise livestock, but they are also so much more.

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Agritecture Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

. #2: Get CapEx estimates in less than a minute with the new Ballpark Estimate Tool Curious what it would cost to build a highly automated vertical farm to grow microgreens, or a low-tech greenhouse to grow tomatoes, but don’t need more details than that?

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Let’s stop trying to force agtech companies and investments to fit the Silicon Valley mold, and instead let’s leverage innovative financing to resource solutions for agriculture. Policy support has also been crucial, as have creative financing mechanisms.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I had primarily done cut flowers as annual crops or grew in a greenhouse, so I didn’t have a lot of experience or knowledge of perennials. Through Adams, Taylor had worked with SI to create a plan for integrating trees and shrubs on her property. “I Savanna Institute was a great resource for me.” Some classes are free, while others are $40.

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Food Tank

JUNE 27, 2024

And because food and ag systems are responsible for roughly a third of total greenhouse gas emissions—not to mention the other ecological issues that can result from hyper-industrialized and non-regenerative practices—food advocates need to play vital roles in both taking accountability and building solutions.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The farm is not a nonprofit organization, so Schreiner depends largely on small one-off grants, crowdfunding, and limited wholesale revenue to finance Sakari’s many efforts—all of which center on traditional ecological knowledge. Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

By installing solar panels above croplands or pastures, or by incorporating them into structures such as greenhouses or barns, farmers can produce both food and energy on the same land. Loan programs: Loan programs can provide financing for the installation of agrivoltaics systems.

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Hartwood Farm

MARCH 12, 2020

The greenhouse is up and humming, high tunnel planting started, and we are seeding up a storm, because that’s what farmers do. We worry about the cracks showing in our fragile health care system and the household finances affected by the economy. Yet it’s spring, and so we plant (or in Matt’s case, help Critz Farm make maple syrup).

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It generates about a third of greenhouse gas emissions globally.” also released a roadmap this weekend that lays out how to transform the food sector to curb greenhouse gas emissions. percent of international climate financing, according to AFA’s analysis released prior to COP28.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Credit: Greenhouse Grower. Expertise is needed because every CEA project is unique and has many complexities such as rapidly-evolving technology, shifting consumer preferences, changing government policies and subsidies, and novel financing structures. Why is proper due diligence necessary for the CEA industry?

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

But rather than reduce fossil fuel use directly in their supply chains, some choose to offset their pollution by buying “carbon credits” designed to reflect greenhouse gasses taken out of the air elsewhere. Many companies and governments want to claim that their operations are emissions-free. It’s a potentially lucrative opportunity.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 24, 2024

In Ontario, the Fair Finance Fund has a national fund for BIPOC candidates, because those candidates weren’t able to get their loans from the traditional lenders. Photography via @youngagrarians/Instagram But there’s a big lending gap in the country today. And many people realize, ‘oh, yeah, that’s right. I can’t do that.

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Hartwood Farm

MAY 15, 2022

I’m the same distance and direction from Lake Ontario now, but I can’t enjoy the truly amazing views sky views off our escapement over the lake plain, because I’m racing around like a maniac battening down hatches and row covers and greenhouses and saying frantic prayers that they all survive.

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Hartwood Farm

JANUARY 22, 2021

Every year, we use language and science, biology, geometry, chemistry, marketing, financing, graphic designing, accounting computer programing, and a truly staggering amount of algebra. For some of us, that could be no till and deep soft beds tucked in every winter under 12 inches of leaves.

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